Bored Commuters Play Motorway Football

[juneau]

Motorists hit by long delays on the M60 decided to while away the time with an impromptu game of football.

The match took place on an empty section of the motorway between Prestwich and Whitefield in Greater Manchester.

As bored commuters got out of their cars and vans to stretch their legs, some used jumpers for goalposts on the closed clockwise carriage at junction 17.

Drivers were stuck in queues for more than two hours, but it is not clear if the game went on longer than the usual 90 minutes, or indeed ended in penalties.



Traffic Chaos On M60: Bored Commuters Play Motorway Football In Greater Manchester | UK News | Sky News

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[Trooper110]

Only in England...

[Duke{CLR}]

That's awesome.

[Rand{CLR}]

That is definitely awesome, and impossible in the States--all our highways either are under active construction, have the traffic jam like the left, or have traffic moving 20mph over the limit.

I've heard stories about people who walked on the Capital Beltway here around DC (second most congested area in the States) right before it opened to traffic. Sounded really cool.

-Rand