| Comment | A lot of the communities that the road ran through were slums, and were slated for comprehensive redevelopment anyway. That's not how we'd approach the problem now, but this was decades before anyone realised that refurbishing tenements was an option.
Proof of this is some of the photos from the time, that show the newly completed motorway alongside old buildings that are no longer there. The road building finished ahead of the other redevelopment.
Obviously the motorways take up a significant amount of land, but nowhere near as much as some campaigners make out. And much of it was going to be demolished anyway. |
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