Services
Junction 1 is home to Severn View services – formerly called Aust Services when originally opened for the M4 motorway – can also be accessed by the A403, from Avonmouth. There is a footpath to allow pedestrians to cross over the bridge leading from the service station.
When the motorway was diverted over the Second Severn Crossing it was anticipated that these services may close. However, although the original building – which had offered views of the River Severn – was sold due to falling business caused by the traffic going over the newer bridge, operations continued in a new, much smaller development on an adjacent site but nearer the motorway junction.
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Famous quotes containing the word services:
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
“Working women today are trying to achieve in the work world what men have achieved all along—but men have always had the help of a woman at home who took care of all the other details of living! Today the working woman is also that woman at home, and without support services in the workplace and a respect for the work women do within and outside the home, the attempt to do both is taking its toll—on women, on men, and on our children.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)