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Wales Online
National
Branwen Jones

The people who live with the M4 in their back garden

Every day, thousands of people travel along the M4 that stretches from west London to south west Wales. Perhaps many of us will just trundle along the motorway to get to wherever we need to be without giving the road much thought.

But for some people, it’s not as easy to forget, as the motorway is located literally in their back garden. On a quiet street in Port Talbot, where the motorway runs over the town on 45ft high pillars, lives Joanna Care.

Alongside her husband, Ritchie Care, and their four-month old daughter Evelyn, Joanna lives in the house she was brought up in. As a child, she would spend most of her days with her sisters and their friends playing underneath the flyover. In the shelter of the motorway, they would spend endless hours riding their bikes and building ramps.

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