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Has been promoted to GA status, meets the length criteria and seems to be written neutrally. However, there are a couple of issues with the hook – firstly it's a bit convoluted and secondly the hook isn't backed up by the source – it was an engineer that described it as a guinea pig, not
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Perhaps instead of my originally suggested hook, it can mention that it had to close after just a few weeks (something which received alot of parliamentory mention, as sourced in the article). So perhaps something
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seem to be highlighting commonplace info that could apply to many motorways around the world.
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