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          "Brian Watson"  wrote:

> 
> "Graeme Wall"  wrote in message 
> news:fa822b84f%Rail@greywall.demon.co.uk...
> > In message 
> >          Tony Polson  wrote:
> >
> >> "Brian Watson"  wrote:
> >> >
> >> >There was considrable marketing put into enocouraging
> >> >motorists to use motorways, and HOW to use motorways.
> >>
> >>
> >> Nonsense.
> >>
> >
> > Somebody hasn't been watching the History of the Motorway series
> > currently  on the BBC, 

As someone else has posted the correct title is Secret Life of the Motorway

> > they've shown several clips of COI films doing
> > exactly what Brian said.  There's been absolutely zero mention of the
> > idea that the motorways were primarily for freight.
> 
> And there I was, thinking I may have imagined it.
> 
> :-)
> 

Part two has actually referred to the fact that motorways were primarily
intended for the fast movement of goods, but right at the end.

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