London: The timeline of motorway construction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- An animated timeline of the history of London and the South East's motorway network from 1959 until the present day.
Includes construction of the M1, M2, M3, M4, M10, M11, M20, M23, M25, M26, M27, M40, M41, M271, M275, A40(M), A41(M), A1(M), A308(M), A404(M), A102(M) motorways.
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After 30 years of continual roadworks the M25 can now handle the traffic of a typical Sunday in 1987!
i would say 1960s
Always surprises me how late into the 80s it was until the M25 was completed!
That's why Tring by-pass has a hard shoulder - was once M41.
One small niggle: the M11 used to carry on along the North Circular before terminating at Redbridge Roundabout. After the NC was extended to the A13 in 1987, the M11 was shortened to its current terminus.
Patrick Harper maybe renumber the junctions on the M11 from Junction 4-14 to Junctions 1-11 as there is 11 junctions on the M11. And A12 numbered Junctions 11-33 to renumber Junctions 1-21.
Brilliant channel - subscribed!
Thankyou :-) I hope you like what I have coming!
This is very helpful - thankyou.
Didn't the first part of the M25 near South Mimms open as the M16 when that was the original designation for Ringway 3 ? Perhaps it was re-designated before it opened ?
It was designated as A1178 when opened, became M25 when it was extended further east.
@@paianis I thought M16
Construction of the first section of the M16 began in 1973 between South Mimms and Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and opened in September 1975 with the temporary general purpose road designation A1178. During construction of the first section of the motorway, the majority of the Ringways plan was cancelled and, in 1975 the plans for Ringway 3 were modified to combine it with parts of another motorway, Ringway 4, the outermost Ringway... The M16 designation was dropped and the combined motorway was given the designation M25 which had originally been intended for the southern and western part of Ringway 4.
I feel like people in the 60's and 70's were 10% stronger and had 50% more will power
If I remember right there was the M15 at the "start" of the M11 however it was incomplete and eventually became part of the A406
RIP M25 for the never completed London Orbital 🙁
Very few people realise that the M60 is the only true orbital motorway in the UK. Yes, Birmingham has a "box" but that's made up of 3 different motorways.
I don't understand much about British motorway system as I don't live there, but I assume many of the construction plan halted, shelved, or just lost because of some circumstances in the past resulted in motorways broken into pieces. Well, sometimes I open Pathetic Motorway and yup some of them are pretty pathetic
One day I'll do a video on all of the unbuilt ringways of London. It would have been way over the top if they'd have all been built!
SesamaLho the motorway box was very unpopular with the public, expensive and would result in many homes being destroyed,therefore they never did build it and they downgraded most of the motorway that had already been built for Ringway 1 and 2.
It was completed, the Dartford Crossing is numbered A282 due to technicalities.
Cool video
The M11 would of extended south to join with the A12 near Leyton and could of also extended instead of A14 & Cambridge but to Newmarket and to Thetford and Norwich. Was there used to be a M13. And M41 could of been built when London Heathrow Airport was also built connecting with the M25 from near to M40 J16 Uxbridge and M25 J12 M3 near Chertsey.
The A14 nearly became a motorway just recently, technically acting as an extension of the M11 to the A1(M) The M41 was given the wrong number. Had the West Cross Route been built it would’ve been M14, along with probably the rest of Ringway 1
Why oh why did they have to be so brash with the Ringway plans! 2 Orbital motorways would have been fine! North and South Circular and the M25! Maybe even some dual carrageway bypass roads further out.
Progress on hiway in Uk come really late in comparaison whit american interstate system when in the 50's it was really and still BIG ! !!!
Good job this historic clip by the way
God save UK
Patrick (:
WWII didn't help.
Good point here, Patrick. The UK was very slow to get on with a motorway network - all within my living memory, I'm sorry to say.
But, but, but you have some great historic routes in the US, such as Route 66, which are far more interesting.
When I travel from Kent to Cornwall, I use some motorway, then A303 & A30. These 'A' roads (main routes) are far more interesting and have lots and lots of services for food, etc. But they're slower, yeah.
@@paianis yeah i understand
@@nigelh3253 thanx to your answer's
What software did you make this on?
+Nathan A RF I use Adobe After Effects
The M2 used to be the A2(M) and the M26 used to be the M25
James Parsons the M2 was originally numbered the A2(M) but changed around the time the motorway opened for publicity
That map looks kinda like Manchester on google maps
A282?
A282 - Watch out for 2 wheelers!