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When modern motorways first began to be built in certain parts of the British countryside, where the existing road and rail networks had been somehow left untouched, nature lovers, conservationists, environmentalists and others made loud and bitter protest. Their objections to the continuing destruction of the shrinking countryside by the planners and bulldozers of the government ministries fell on deaf ears. In other words, the objections were not taken into consideration. The latter insisted that Britain was in urgent need of an improved fast-traffic system. Towns needed bypasses, cities needed circular routes that directed heavy traffic away from their already congested centres. Distant parts of the United Kingdom had to be linked up to an efficient road network that would serve the needs of motorists, transport companies and tourists alike for many decades to come. It was regrettable, of course, that as the road network expanded, more agricultural land would be swallowed up but there were more important issues involved than birds, bees and butterflies.
It is ironical, therefore, that since the construction of new motorways, there has been a new and exciting development. It is a remarkable fact that in the uninhabited no-man's-land between the busy carriageways, numerous, unplanned nature reserves have established
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