{"id":1889,"date":"2012-12-07T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1889"},"modified":"2022-10-24T20:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:34:30","slug":"elderly-couple-live-in-the-middle-of-a-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/us\/news\/elderly-couple-live-in-the-middle-of-a-motorway\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly couple live in the middle of a motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living beside a motorway must be really annoying, as getting to sleep at night will take a long time.\n\nThe mornings cannot be too pretty either, as rush hour traffic means you&rsquo;ll never be able to get a lie-in.\n\nSo spare a thought for an elderly couple in the Chinese province Zhejiang, who have been left living in the middle of a motorway.\n\nPlanners wanted an apartment block demolished so they could build an access road to a new railway station, but a family refused to move because they felt the compensation wasn&rsquo;t adequate.\n\nInstead of prolonging the case, the developers chose to just build the road around the apartment and bulldozed the rest of the structure.\n\nIt led a rather bizarre looking road and a very annoyed couple, while neither of them seemed to be ready to back down.\n\nYou have to admire the determination of the couple, but I think I would have just moved out.\n\nPosted by Mark Wilkins<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801502605-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801502605\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple are living on a motorway after they refused to allow their house to be bulldozed.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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