On 13 July 1996, around 6,000 protesters took over part of the elevated motorway for over eight hours from around midday, played sound-systems and danced in a protest organised by the direct action collective Reclaim the Streets. Sand was placed on the motorway for young children to play on, and a banner carrying the Situationist International slogan "The Society That Abolishes Every Adventure Makes Its Own Abolition the Only Possible Adventure" was raised. Hidden underneath dancers walking on stilts and wearing huge, wire-supported dresses, environmental activists drilled holes in the tarmac and planted trees.RTS: Street Party '96
