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Love and motorways
Author: Tim Chapman • Aug 7th, 2005 •Category: Ballardosphere, architecture, sexual politics
Story from the Observer on lonely hearts along the business parks of the M4 -
Known as the main artery of Britain’s ’silicon corridor’ because of the industrial parks and commuters along its borders, the motorway has never been famed for anything all that exciting.
But now the strip is bubbling up with a new type of activity. Amazingly, dating companies have spotted that a disproportionate number of people who live along the six-lane strip are signing up; if you want to find love, it appears, live near the M4.
Thousands of overworked singles from Swansea to Slough are rushing back from their offices to log on to their computers and trawl through lists of potential partners.
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