By the time you’re reading this, Britain’s
newest motorway service area (MSA) will be
open for business. I spent some time there yesterday, to tour the facilities
and meet the CEO of Extra, the company which has built and will run Cobham,
between J9 and J10 of the M25. Serving one of the UK’s busiest stretches of motorway,
within three years it will be hosting 12,000 vehicles a day. It’s the biggest
one in the UK; the site is 60 acres, has a 75-room Days Inn hotel, a Regis
Business Centre and the country’s biggest fuel forecourt. Yesterday afternoon,
with roughly 12 hours to opening time, it didn’t look much like a service area.
A reported 400 hard-hatted construction workers and shop-fitters were putting
the finishing touches to it, and amusingly lining up at the KFC franchise –
which was testing all its equipment – to get their lunch for a minimum cash donation.
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