Traffic jam on the M1 Motorway
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Photographs of the M1 Motorway which connects London with Leeds and was the first major motorway in the UK.
The M1 was the first long-distance motorway to be built in the United Kingdom.
It was opened in November 1959 by the then Minister of Transport, Ernest Marples and was the first dual three-lane motorway.