It’s looking really nice. Too bad I’ll never use this fucking freeway because I don’t even have a bicycle. ibid.
Even I don’t care about the freeway. I’m somewhere else. ibid.
Road-building is one of the great indicators of a successful nation … Planning, precision and scope … Roman road building stretched over eight centuries. In Search of War s2e14: Roman Roads: Paths to Empire, History 1997
I love being inside of the 405 freeway in my car. Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 ***** short 40.06, Mindy, 2017
I was pretty much a basket-case. ibid.
‘To be given a scholarship by him; it’s one of the most amazing gifts anyone has ever given me. ibid.
Why did she [mother] ask me to leave instead of him [father]? ibid.
She [mother] had a physical repulsion to me. ibid.
No one said anything to us about no filth. The Hit 1984 starring Terence Stamp & John Hurt & Tim Roth & Laura del Sol & Bill Hunter & James Lombard & Fernando Rey & Lennie Peters & Willoughby Gray & Jim Broadbent et al, director Stephen Frears, Myron the driver
I don’t think anything should happen to her. It’s not fair. ibid.
It’s a job, a business opportunity. We go door to door. We sell magazines door to door being friendly. You know you seem friendly. You make $300 a day if you’re good. American Honey 2016 starring Sasha Lane & Shia LaBeouf & Arielle Holmes & Riley Keough & McCaul Lombardi & Crystal B & Chad Mckenzie Cox & Garry Howell & Kenneth Kory Tucker et al, director Andrea Arnold, him to her
So you’re a Southern girl. A real American honey like me. ibid.
God can go fuck himself. God is a cunt. ibid. Star
I feel like I’m fucking America. ibid.
The M1 is about to turn 60. It’s a British icon that changed the way we travel and became the beating heart of our economy. This is the story of the road that made Britain. M1: The Motorway that Made Britain, Channel 5 2018
Today the M1 motorway is the modern backbone of Britain carrying 300,000 vehicles every day. ibid.
It would be one of the biggest civil engineering projects the country had ever seen. ibid.
In 1959 55 miles of pristine tarmac, 2 carriageways of 3 lanes apiece, hard shoulders and 72 futuristic bridges in sweeping concrete arrived in just over a year and a half. ibid.
The unofficial M1 record set in April 1964 … Over 180 mph. ibid.
Today there are 14 service stations on the M1. ibid.
By the ’70s services were losing their appeal. ibid.
Potholes are driving Britain mad. They cause rage. Rows. And road works. Costing billions of pounds to repair and injuring hundreds of people. There’s a pothole war raging on Britain’s roads. Some councils say they are at financial breaking point. Pothole Wars, ITV 2018
‘I’ve had a knife pulled on me and headbutted and a few other things.’ ibid. Glen the repair man
Cost UK drivers a whopping £1.7 billion a year. ibid.
Danger on the motorways: taking away the hard shoulder was meant to ease congestion but dozens of people have been killed. The minister who approved smart motorways says they are dangerous. And the government tell us smart motorways need to be overhauled. Panorama: Britain Killer Motorways? Richard Bilton reporting, BBC 2020
Smart motorways are supposed to spot stationary motorways and then close the lane. ibid.
The number of cyclists on UK roads in rising. Despite the dangers. The government has changed the rules to make cyclists feel safer. But many drivers don’t want more bikes on the road. Tonight, we investigate the trouble between drivers and cyclists. Panorama: Road Rage: Cars v Bikes, Richard Bilton reporting, BBC 2022
Controversial schemes to get traffic off our streets. They are turning neighbour against neighbour. And some drivers into rule-breakers. Traffic restrictions have led to mass protests sparking a battle between those who want a world without congestion and pollution and those who want to drive wherever they like. Panorama: Road Wars: Neighbourhood Traffic Chaos, BBC 2023
Today we take for granted the motorways, A-roads and city streets. Over 2,000 miles of them that form the skeleton road map of Britain. And all because of the Romans. With their ingenuity and dogged determination to conquer everything in their path. Dan Jones, Walking Britain’s Roman Roads I: Watling Street, 5 Select 2020
In nearly 400 years of occupation the Romans changed Britain for ever by bringing their armies, ideas, buildings and religion. But the Romans couldn’t have done any of it without one thing – their roads. ibid.
Watling Street: Running all the way from the Kent coast to the Midlands and on towards the West borders, Watling Street has two defining features: it was the first road that the Romans built in Britain, and at 240 miles it was also the longest. The story of Watling Street is the story of the Roman invasion. ibid.
The River Fleet: Fleet Street runs directly over the ancient watercourse. Within 20 years the Romans had built a small town roughly half a square mile in size with a fortified garrison. Londinium rapidly began a thriving hub, providing road links across Britain and to the larger empire across the channel. ibid.
Verulamium (St Albans): it grew up along this street to become one of the largest and most prosperous towns in Roman Britain … Verulamium had buildings such as a theatre, houses with underfloor heating and beautiful mosaic floors, just like Rome itself. ibid.
Boudica’s revolt may have been quashed on Watling Street but the war between the Romans and the native Britons raged on. Many of the tribes who lived here didn’t take kindly to being controlled by a foreign tribe. ibid.
Ermine Street: The Romans’ straightest road which runs north from their capital in London to what became their second city in Britain – York, founded in around 100 A.D. Most of Ermine Street is still in use today, though we know it better as the A1. This is Bishopsgate right in the heart of the city of London and it’s the start of Ermine Street proper. Dan Jones, Walking Britain’s Roman Roads II: Ermine Street
The [London] Mithraeum was built around 1,700 years ago. It fell into ruin and was buried when the Romans left our land in the 5th century. It was uncovered in 1954 when an office block was built near Cannon Street, though it’s been moved to a new site in recent years. ibid.
The Romans paved this road all the way to York, making one of the straightest roads they ever built, and shared their religious beliefs with our native tribes. Like many of Britain’s Roman roads, Ermine Street had been adapted over the passing centuries, and it’s now part of our modern road system. ibid.
From the very first road across Kent which powered their invasion to the vital routes which helped them conquer most of Britain before being beaten into retreat by the Scots. Dan Jones, Walking Britain’s Roman Roads III: Dere Street & Stanegate
Two important roads which intersect in the north-east of Britain: Dere Street and Stain Gate: together they were integral to the expansion of the Roman Empire here. Dere Street runs for 226 miles: it heads north from York and loosely follows the route of the A1 … Stanegate: a key east-west route. ibid.
Dere Street, Stanegate and Hadrian’s Gate are part of a story about Roman military and colonial ambition in Britain. ibid.
Hadrian’s Wall: An awe-inspiring defence system manned by 10,000 soldiers and measuring more than 4 metres in height. ibid.
Fosse Way: Stretching for 230 miles through the heart of England, the route starts in Exeter and runs through Devon towards the spa town of Bath, then it’s on through the Cotswolds and the West Midlands roughly following the route of the A46; it ends at the cathedral city of Lincoln. Dan Jones, Walking Britain’s Roman Roads IV
A ditch built to defend the western limits of Roman territory, and fosse is the Latin word for ditch. ibid.
Ermin Way: It’s a road that cuts into the heart of industrial Roman Britain … [and] stretches for around 75 miles and was effectively the M4 of its day. Walking Britain’s Roman Roads V: Ermin Way
Roman agricultural expertise reshaped the British landscape and industrialised farming for the good of the empire. ibid.
Stane Street which runs from London all the way down to the south coast. Walking Britain’s Roman Roads VI: Stane Street
By the 4th century they [Romans’] had mounting problems. They had occupied our land for more than 300 years but they were being increasingly attacked by the forces within Britain. ibid.
Stane Street runs 67 miles from London to Chichester. The route is closely followed by our modern roads. ibid.
By the second century A.D. Londinium was a thriving city with a population of around 60,000. ibid.