In Germany without my car
(19 July 2010)Ahead of European Mobility week in September which will feature 2 road closures for In Town without my car in Aberdeen City (Bridge of Don), and Shire (Insch) the German regional authorities have closed 40 miles of a busy Autobahn for a massive party - as the BBC reports
"Germans have been throwing an enormous party on one of the busiest stretches of the country's famous autobahn (motorway) network.
As many as three million people turned up for a giant banquet at picnic tables along 60km (40 miles) of motorway between Duisburg and Dortmund.
A radio traffic report quipped that the A40/B1 had been closed due to "the longest table in the world".
The Still-Life event was meant to celebrate the Ruhr region.Party organisers said they had given away 20,000 tables to allow people to eat, drink, dance and perform plays into Sunday evening.
One resident living next to the A40 in Essen, Waltraud Weber, told German public broadcaster WDR she was pleased to have had an unusually quiet night before heading off to party with her family.
The Ruhr, Germany's former industrial heartland, is Cultural Capital of Europe 2010."
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