it's a Hyundai accent 1.3 gsi. If you think the exterior's bad wait until you see the interior! Loving the 44teeth channel btw, so much better than the, quite frankly stale, MCN lot.
WE THE DRIVERS ARE IN CONTROL - SIMPLE EITHER HAVE A DRIVE SLOW PROTEST ON ALL SMART MOTORWAYS UNTIL THE HARD SHOULDER IS REINSTATED OR BOYCOTT THEM ALTOGETHER
At first they told us the reason for speed cameras is because speed kills Now on smart motorways they say slow down as if you ignore the speeding signs you might end up in a traffic jam!!!! It is an insult to the public that they can get away with this.
I drove down the M3 J1-4 today and had this EXACT rant with my other half! Really funny coming home to this vid.. I spend hours a day stuck in traffic on the A3, wishing I was on my bike so find your channel very therapeutic! Keep up the great work and ride safe ;-)
I totally agree with your opinions here!!!! So many people do just sit back and put up with crap and when someone complains such as you and I, we're considered weirdos! The motorist contributes around £70-100 BILLION per year to the treasury and 9% gets spent on the roads! Smart motorway? What's fecking smart about losing the hard shoulder???? Great video.
I see the sights on a daily basis ... why I choose to view them again on weekends is a mystery... must be the HILARIOUS COMMENTARY! Play a bit of Baron when I'm stuck on the A3 to make time fly by quicker... Legend!
You've just blown my mind with the north/south divide idea, I never thought about it before. It would be best to get in on it early before house prices catch up and equalise, but damn, it's exciting to think about!
Baron you are so right, I'm a truck driver and I work nights. Closures everywhere I go - M5 M4 M42 M6 M1, people just wouldn't believe it, that's not even mentioning A roads. Smart motorways don't even work once they are finished unless it is purely done to fine the motorist. They still get traffic jams on the M4 near Bristol and on the M42, it really is a total waste of time and money. By the way I have been on the M42 numerous times in the early hours and the speed limit signs have shown 40 then 20 then 40 then national limit ... and for what ? Just me and a reliant 3 wheeler on the road !!!! Bull Bull Bull..
Classic Baron on top form. Funny, smart, incisive, relevant, articulate. Baron should be chairing a road users pressure group, he voices the real issues and frustrations that ordinary people face every day. Brilliant on so many levels.
Spot on about the trustworthiness of those "smart" signs - often find myself ranting to my wife about them. The closest thing to "smart" motorways is using something like Waze which actually shows you real-time traffic speed & incidents. I find those signs are wrong 90% of the time and Waze is right 90% of the time. Rarely drive without it now.
I enjoyed that rant. Mainly because I agree with almost everything you said. I've been saying for about 10 years that to solve many of this country's problems more people will/should work from home. However, I do think HS2 is a good idea and could allow people who have to work in London/South East to afford there own home further north thereby helping to equalise north/south house prices. Hopefully with HS2 built a lot of road freight can move onto the existing West Coast Main Line making the roads even more less congested. Incidentally it takes me 15 mins to get to work and because I cycle traffic is never a problem. 😜
+Jerombolo I have an office job, and I can't imagine it would ever work as well, working from home, as it does actually being there with your colleagues
Martin Fisker I'm logistician, still an apprentice, and in my company we have people who buy and sell stuff... normal. They couldn't work from home ever. If we have a problem they need to see it not just be informed about it on the phone as they then mostly don't understand what the problem exactly is
Hardly any jobs can be done from home. Except some office jobs. I worked in a field where clients needed to be seen and bundles etc needed to be submitted to court etc. Too much hands on, confidential discussion, translators etc
I think you make a valid point about the 'bullshit' albeit it's fortunately(?) only a minority of drivers who - out of arrogance, stupidity or frustration - actually choose to ignore the reduced speed limits because they think they know better (eg. that the stated reason for the delay is untrue). But here's why I think you're right about the "traffic engineering." I'm in SE London and regularly use the Blackwall Tunnel. There are currently proposals for additional river crossings downriver from Tower Bridge, including the possibility of another tunnel (at Silvertown) or a revised ferry. For quite some time, things have been at the 'consultation' stage. A while back, I started noticing that whenever I'd go there (only ever on a bike, I know it too well to take a car there) there would probably be major queues. Not just the weekday rush hour but any time of day and even weekends, too.It was almost as if someone *wanted* that traffic chaos, so that all the drivers stuck in it would reach breaking point and be ready to say 'Please, give us something ... *anything* ... that will give us an alternative to this, and make it quick!' Can you actually "engineer [the conditions that can create] traffic"??? I do believe you can!
Glad about the change back to 30fps, been watching them all in SD til now. Roadworks are a nightmare. They always seem to bite off way more than they can chew, like why have you closed 5 miles of motorway if you got like 4 guys to work on it?
As a civil engineer.. Roadworkings are 9/10 times (Motorways/highways) Are genuinly at night. This is because of the Nen-EN euro safety codes.. But regarding the design of the "Smart motorway"You're a 100% right.. because its indeed uttterly shit
Living just off of junction 4a, I feel your pain with the motorway, I absolutley hate them roadworks so now find alternative routes just to avoid it...
The M60/M62 'smart' clusterfuck is so bad that I left the area after living there for 16 years. I just couldn't take that shit any more; congested, depressing, and dangerous.
Average speed cameras on motorways are something I especially hate. By slowing cars down to 50mph (and it takes their average speed over a distance so you're forced to do 50), you're putting more cars into one space at any given time, which surely must contribute to congestion (as well as increased emissions).
I have just been made aware of the purpose of "smart motorways". Caught speeding (68mph) on an empty M25 in a variable speed limit area. Dry roads, bright conditions, no traffic. 6 points and £650 fine. Glad to see that the police are addressing the problem motorist. Look for the easy buck officers that's the best way of effective policing.
I'm certain that when they flash the 40mph signs it actually causes traffic. speed limit should be 90 and heavy fines and points for people who block outside lane and protest the speed limit. also permanent average speed check on north circular is cancer. I go 45 in 40 cause I know all speedos are 10% slower than actually displaying but I still end up being undertaken by people who think they're clear to floor it once past a camera. it's highly problematic. great video anyway even if I am a bit late👍🍻
In NYC the Cross Bronx Expressway construction began about 50 years ago and was only completed in the last few years. At one point, the master architect/engineer died and no one knew what he'd done with the plans so they had to reconstruct the design in mid-project. Fun!
I fucking love this man .so spot on. These motorways have gone completely out of control. M23.m25.m4..and the witchin hour of 22.oo.the cones and closures are so effective. Then nothing.
You cant say the sign is lying when you don't know what the full situation is. If you want safer, higher quality road surfaces, you have to accept that you will face traffic. You have to consider that the government build and upgrade things to fit most people in the population. They do work at night time more because most people are spending time with their loved ones.
Actually the system does lie, once I was on the M6 it said accident and two lanes closed and there was nothing there,I was on the M25, it said broken down vehicle, two lanes closed, stuck for 2 hours, nothing there and I'm on the M20 it said queue ahead 40 and no queue
@@kingkarrotyt5277 right because when there is an accident or a brokedown car they tend to leave it there all day. maybe the cleared it before you got there.
Interesting you say 60fps is blurry for you. I know you're using a Drift but I get the same problem on my Hero 4 when shooting any 4k footage. I reckon some cameras just aren't powerful enough to record at the frame rates and resolutions that they're rated at
Could not agree more Baronmeister. My commute is 23 miles each way and takes 1hr 20 to 1h 40 each morning in a car. I've done it in 30 minutes on a Sunday evening. (How it should be.) This country and it's infrastructure is just simply a joke. It's almost comical some mornings as I sit and commentate at lorries / buses / accidents every SINGLE FUCKING MORNING!! Nice one for speaking out about it.
+Zebb 300 soo good isnt it. Makes travel in the grime and misery a good thing looking at ill prepared other vehicles - 2 wheeled superiority complex ;)
+BaronVonGrumble Totally with you on the working from home thing, time and again I've asked my boss to let me work from home and all he ever says is "You're a Joiner".
I'm always mindful of other road users and road conditions, like you, I don't like these lying matrices and have been witness to the lies they display for Years.
Here in the US, there is a "high speed" train from Boston to New York. Only problem...? It's on "low speed" tracks, so it takes just as long as the regular train, but costs twice as much!
I know EXACTLY what you mean. You cannot filter on the M3 because the fucking lanes are so narrow while they fuck about. Whats that? The so called "smart" motorway has got rid of the brake down lane to increase traffic flow? Whats that? A SINGLE car has broken down? MOTORWAY FUCKED. TALE BACKS FOR MILES
Couldn't agree more.. we've got the smart motorways here aswel.. out of nowhere it all of a sudden says "oh, this is now the maximum speed due to "this" .. and there is nothing there.. the signs turn on, everybody freaks out, steps on the brakes.. and that actually nearly causes the incident that the signs warn about... Same for roadworks, if they are actually working on the road, then fair enough.. but i've been driving past one bit of road that has now been having roadworks for 3.5 years and they are hardly ever working.. still.. the police is mooooore then happy enough to sit at that point with speed camera's though..
They're doing the same shit in the states, especially in California. Heading south down 101 from SF to anywhere during the week is a fucking chore. I'm convinced it's the bastards in silicon valley trying to condition us to digesting data/reading whilst driving. If I wanted to read I'd go to a library or back to school. Anyway, fantastic video as always.
Baron for prime minister!! Back to classic ranting, love it. Typically people would say they do the work at night on motorways but I say they should just pay two teams to do it. One for the day and one for the night to not only get it done quicker but save a bit of money paying the day guys less.
and why can't there just be a guy sitting in front of a screen looking at the camera pictures and write on these useless monitors wether ist a queue or not? coasts probably 1/10000000 of what the roadworks coast. but very nice vid. good to see the classic baron back ;)
I was riding into London the other week on my 675R and I got ranting to myself when I seen those number plates on cars, you know the ones with the blue European Union symbol with GB within the circle of stars? Why... Just, fucking why? That, and the whole fucking European Union in general, what is the point of it, why are we, the British, paying £55 Million a day (up until March it was something like £9 billion per year, at the end of this year it will be £10 billion, in three to five years time that figure will increase by another £3 billion) and for what? We don't make a profit out of it, the last time we did was in the early '90s. Because of trade? Bollocks! Don't need to be a part of the EU to trade! Then I got onto thinking about that HS2 bollocks, funnily enough you mentioned too, Baron. That was an epic rant, why we don't see Butterscotch flavoured ice cream, how does a snow plough driver get to work in the morning, and snow, yes. Why does this country come to a stand still when there's 1cm of snow? Norway don't! And this shit occurred before I got into London, imagine the shit that was about to hit, what sort of arse juice infested abuse am I going to come across. And that's the thing with this country, it's that steady fucking diet of disappointment, what the fuck! In the end, I just had a wank!
Whoever thought of the idea in the first place is a right nuthead. They are sooo dangerous. For example, if you break down IN BETWEEN 2 refuge points on say the M6, what do we do? Do we just scramble out of the car onto the bank where we see our car get smashed to pieces and others injured. What about if we come to a sudden stop and it's busy? It is pretty certain someone will run into the back of us... The highways agency's response to this is: "We monitor the motorways 24 / 7 and close any lanes if we need to to prevent this kind of thing happening". So we've learned 2 things there already: 1 being that this scheme is just a massive toy network where they can get money out of you and play around with the traffic; 2 being that they can't even justify themselves to a proper answer to my statement when I messaged them. Monitoring isn't enough. You don't get lane closed gantries every metre, how are we meant to feel safe? Another thing being, what happens if there's a traffic jam and emergency vehicles need to get by. They would usually use the hard shoulder, but oh wait they don't exist anymore! So how are the emergency services meant to get by to help someone out of a car who is potientially injured (therefore requiring ambulance, fire service, and maybe police) which is holding the traffic. Highways agency is a load of bo****x when it comes to motorways
They don't monitor it as well as they could.. the M1 runs practically though my back garden so I have a great view of how all this works , I've seen vehicles breakdown and usually the lanes shut within ten mins , but I've seen a van breakdown and all lanes be active for 40 mins too
I've also seen far more accidents now the hard shoulder has gone , there seems to be at least one a month just on the small bit I can see.. before that I saw only 2 accidents in 2 years, a lot of accidents come from rolling road blocks too, obviously the traffic behind the highways cars slow but then I see the braking get harder as more distance passes and on occasion somebody not concentrating smacking into the back of somebody..
The reason they lie is so they can put the speed limit down to say 40mph. Consequently, the speed cameras turn on. Then they are getting money off you and there is nothing you can do. Fuck the roads
Apart from being 20 minutes quicker, I think HS2 is also meant to free up space on an already full existing main line. This means there is more room for local trains and freight.
Cheer up Baron....might never happen. Could you review R1200RS looks totally jiz worthy? the highway agency stasi have complety fucked it up again on the M3, I've seen three accidents already near the M25 as the road narrows into the road works....very smart. It's technology gone mad if you ask me, what was wrong with the old misleading matrix signs, you knew where you were with those. 50mph for no reason then End. Now they're just messing with our minds. Great vid baron :-)
I know exactly how you feel Baron about our motorways, I have to travel frequently for my job and it took me just under 3 hours to get from Moorgate to Farnham, because of the ridicolous amounts of roads closed which caused my Satnav to throw a wobbly
Know exactly what you mean. The M4/M5 interchange in Bristol is now "smart" and every morning there is a queue on the M5 turn off usually with a 40 MPH limit, so what do they do? Put the same 40MPH signs up over the completely clear M4 heading to Wales... The best one I seen was after an incident on the M4 way before the tunnels in South Wales, after filtering to the front of the queue the accident was plain to see, the police let me and couple of other bikes through - there was no space for cars - literally NO traffic for the rest of the run bar the odd car coming on at the junctions and still the congestion signs lit up for miles with 40MPH restrictions in place due to the invisible congestion.
My uncle is very high up within the groups working on the motorway system, he works with both the british highway agency and the Dutch highway agency ( cant remember their official name ) also he is working in america to bring them up to date with theirs. The changes are actually crucial to getting the motorways working properly. The current / outdated system is not modular or universal so there are companies charging literally hundreds of thousands to " fix " the problems we have at the moment but are not actually fixing anything. This upgrading to a smart motorway is bringing in new software architecture so that when there is a problem they can effectively fix it. Also the new systems being put into place can actually collect information like speed / traffic density / traffic flow and other bits through signals being transmitted from the cars to be more effective. Also the motorways at the moment cant communicate with itself over long distances, example: there's a crash on the m1 that will have an effect on the m25, the motorway cant see this information with the current system so it cant effectively work with itself and its variable speed limits to increase traffic flow. The new system means every motorway and every information collection point can communicate and reduce traffic down time. I know its annoying at the moment ( i spend around 5 hours a day on average commuting ) but its a massive upgrade that needs to be done. It will take some time but if we don't do it the problem will never be addressed properly.
Do you know how much the economy suffers from people being stuck in traffic? Yeah it's about money, but in this situation it's a positive thing for both the government and the people using the motorways.
Jack Green Whatever you say. The experience of those that use the motorways especially the so called smart M25 is extremely negative. The M25 is not known as the largest car park in the world for nothing. Smart motorways are geared up for extracting money from the UK motorist. Many of the new cameras on the M25 are operated by private companies so it is in their interest to earn revenue from these cameras and the smart motorway.
Did you not read my original comment? It's not finished yet and it won't be 100% effective until it is. They are operated by private companies because they are the companies that deal with the systems in place. I think I have enough experience of motorways, I be put 46,700 miles on my van this year alone. You're just angry because you are stuck in your ways. Learn to learn
Jack Green First of all I'm not angry. Secondly I'm not stuck in my ways, stuck in traffic yes more often than not because of roadworks, accidents or the M25 smart motorway farce. 46k miles? Good for you. Uncle works on the motorways? Good for him. I refer you to my earlier reply that none of this makes any positive difference to the UK motorist. It only serves to line the pockets of private companies with yet more public money. I reckon you need to learn more about how the financial merry go around works in this country and pretty much elsewhere. This is a small county with too many vehicles on the road and no amount of smart cobblers will sort it out. I don't care how many signs your uncle puts up on the motorways there is no benefit to drivers.
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The smart motorway thing would be okay if it worked but the main problem is having to do 50 because of 'the workers' that are never there..
It's 50 because lanes are narrow drivers safety and workers safety. As for smart system needs be banned stupid system
Monitoring a pole.
Perhaps all the construction guys are working from home
More like wanking from home! XD
I've noticed they tell you there is an accident waaaay ahead of where te accident actually is. Almost in another county.
so the next step must be, accidents from other countries. Bus accident in France - many dead children, bus driver OK.
+sir charles There is an accident. Not here, but make sure to slow down anyway.
speed cameras should be illegal on motorways, adding bloody obstacles for people to dodge.
it's a Hyundai accent 1.3 gsi. If you think the exterior's bad wait until you see the interior! Loving the 44teeth channel btw, so much better than the, quite frankly stale, MCN lot.
+Joe Yeah, mate GSI init, pusssssssaaayyy patrol.
Bike world is also good
+Joe MCN is terrible
+TheOneNo20 it didn't work for the Sun, it won't work for them!
+Meterz. cheers for the heads up! subscribed too!
I work from home as do most people in the company I work for. I don't understand why more companies don't do it, saves them and us money/time.
WE THE DRIVERS ARE IN CONTROL - SIMPLE EITHER HAVE A DRIVE SLOW PROTEST ON ALL SMART MOTORWAYS UNTIL THE HARD SHOULDER IS REINSTATED OR BOYCOTT THEM ALTOGETHER
At first they told us the reason for speed cameras is because speed kills
Now on smart motorways they say slow down as if you ignore the speeding signs you might end up in a traffic jam!!!!
It is an insult to the public that they can get away with this.
I hate those signs that say " my daddy works here, take extra care" 6 miles down the road later and daddy still hasn't been seen "working"
I drove down the M3 J1-4 today and had this EXACT rant with my other half! Really funny coming home to this vid.. I spend hours a day stuck in traffic on the A3, wishing I was on my bike so find your channel very therapeutic! Keep up the great work and ride safe ;-)
I totally agree with your opinions here!!!! So many people do just sit back and put up with crap and when someone complains such as you and I, we're considered weirdos! The motorist contributes around £70-100 BILLION per year to the treasury and 9% gets spent on the roads! Smart motorway? What's fecking smart about losing the hard shoulder???? Great video.
I see the sights on a daily basis ... why I choose to view them again on weekends is a mystery... must be the HILARIOUS COMMENTARY! Play a bit of Baron when I'm stuck on the A3 to make time fly by quicker... Legend!
You've just blown my mind with the north/south divide idea, I never thought about it before. It would be best to get in on it early before house prices catch up and equalise, but damn, it's exciting to think about!
Agreed. I'd way rather deal with aggressive drivers who are paying attention than drivers who are texting and not focusing on the road.
A lie told often, becomes true, but it was there 50 years ago, now people are smarter. When seriously no one will believe.
Great video.
Big V.
Saturday morning baron? I LOVE IT!
+TheIrishHooligan its the only time i have now between work, cleaning the house, changing nappies and eating junk food..
+BaronVonGrumble what a time to be alive!
+BaronVonGrumble careful you don't mix those up and change the house, clean up the junk food and eat the nappies
Thanks for the tip at the end!
+HamSpamJamLamb This time I'll take the Jam or Lamb. And you changed it to "Lamb" did you not?
Seems I have a stalker! That profile pic is creepy af btw
***** Likewise... Ham, Spam, Jam and Lamb? How could you think of something so evil?
You're obsessed sir. Seek help.
+HamSpamJamLamb Isn't the tip always at the end? ;)
Love the way you go from impassioned speech to 'BLACKED OUT ASTRA VAN INNIT', had me giggling :)
Baron you are so right, I'm a truck driver and I work nights. Closures everywhere I go - M5 M4 M42 M6 M1, people just wouldn't believe it, that's not even mentioning A roads. Smart motorways don't even work once they are finished unless it is purely done to fine the motorist. They still get traffic jams on the M4 near Bristol and on the M42, it really is a total waste of time and money. By the way I have been on the M42 numerous times in the early hours and the speed limit signs have shown 40 then 20 then 40 then national limit ... and for what ? Just me and a reliant 3 wheeler on the road !!!! Bull Bull Bull..
Looks like the working from home prediction really panned out!
Classic Baron on top form. Funny, smart, incisive, relevant, articulate. Baron should be chairing a road users pressure group, he voices the real issues and frustrations that ordinary people face every day. Brilliant on so many levels.
Spot on about the trustworthiness of those "smart" signs - often find myself ranting to my wife about them. The closest thing to "smart" motorways is using something like Waze which actually shows you real-time traffic speed & incidents. I find those signs are wrong 90% of the time and Waze is right 90% of the time. Rarely drive without it now.
"Birmingham 20 minutes quicker... What... What the Fuck...." LOL that was hilarious :D :D :D
This makes waking up in the morning to go to work a little better. Thanks for the vid Baron ;)
One of the best vids in a while. I laughed a lot. Recognizable first world problems.
I enjoyed that rant. Mainly because I agree with almost everything you said. I've been saying for about 10 years that to solve many of this country's problems more people will/should work from home. However, I do think HS2 is a good idea and could allow people who have to work in London/South East to afford there own home further north thereby helping to equalise north/south house prices. Hopefully with HS2 built a lot of road freight can move onto the existing West Coast Main Line making the roads even more less congested. Incidentally it takes me 15 mins to get to work and because I cycle traffic is never a problem. 😜
I love the honesty in your videos. This is what made me subscribe.
50% of the people are working from home? So 50% are people who work in offices? Wouldn't say that this will happen.
+Jerombolo I have an office job, and I can't imagine it would ever work as well, working from home, as it does actually being there with your colleagues
Martin Fisker I'm logistician, still an apprentice, and in my company we have people who buy and sell stuff... normal. They couldn't work from home ever. If we have a problem they need to see it not just be informed about it on the phone as they then mostly don't understand what the problem exactly is
+Jerombolo Probably just hyperbole. I personally reckon between 15-20% in the future.
+Jerombolo Think he just pulled a figure out of the air, because that's doubtful
Hardly any jobs can be done from home. Except some office jobs. I worked in a field where clients needed to be seen and bundles etc needed to be submitted to court etc. Too much hands on, confidential discussion, translators etc
I think you make a valid point about the 'bullshit' albeit it's fortunately(?) only a minority of drivers who - out of arrogance, stupidity or frustration - actually choose to ignore the reduced speed limits because they think they know better (eg. that the stated reason for the delay is untrue). But here's why I think you're right about the "traffic engineering." I'm in SE London and regularly use the Blackwall Tunnel. There are currently proposals for additional river crossings downriver from Tower Bridge, including the possibility of another tunnel (at Silvertown) or a revised ferry. For quite some time, things have been at the 'consultation' stage. A while back, I started noticing that whenever I'd go there (only ever on a bike, I know it too well to take a car there) there would probably be major queues. Not just the weekday rush hour but any time of day and even weekends, too.It was almost as if someone *wanted* that traffic chaos, so that all the drivers stuck in it would reach breaking point and be ready to say 'Please, give us something ... *anything* ... that will give us an alternative to this, and make it quick!' Can you actually "engineer [the conditions that can create] traffic"??? I do believe you can!
'gota blacked-out astra van innit mate.'......... Gold, Baron. Brilliant. Love a good Baron rant.
You rant about motorways and the government and I laugh and enjoy it! For me, that's the definition of an entertaining person.
even after all these years, still producing the same hilarious content as ever.
That is my internal monologue daily. BVG you're hilarious.
Barron, your impressions are fucking hilarious!
Glad about the change back to 30fps, been watching them all in SD til now.
Roadworks are a nightmare. They always seem to bite off way more than they can chew, like why have you closed 5 miles of motorway if you got like 4 guys to work on it?
I went by 'pedestrians in road' sign and was amazed to see a gang of kids walking down the hard shoulder lol.
Ur the best Baron! If I wanna listen to anyone rant bout anything, it's you.
After writing 3 essays this morning, I needed this!
And he puts the grumble..., back into the grumble. Love it.
As a civil engineer.. Roadworkings are 9/10 times (Motorways/highways) Are genuinly at night. This is because of the Nen-EN euro safety codes.. But regarding the design of the "Smart motorway"You're a 100% right.. because its indeed uttterly shit
Living just off of junction 4a, I feel your pain with the motorway, I absolutley hate them roadworks so now find alternative routes just to avoid it...
The M60/M62 'smart' clusterfuck is so bad that I left the area after living there for 16 years. I just couldn't take that shit any more; congested, depressing, and dangerous.
The Quality Baron Rant has returned. best way to start the day ! :)
Baron back at his best! 😀
Average speed cameras on motorways are something I especially hate. By slowing cars down to 50mph (and it takes their average speed over a distance so you're forced to do 50), you're putting more cars into one space at any given time, which surely must contribute to congestion (as well as increased emissions).
Beagleman1996 lool no one cares! People be like "dont speed, no ticket" ahahaha
I am very glad you are doing these rant videos again!! Proper BaronVonGrumble style....
Nice to see you have not changed Baron! Just like one of your old rants! Bravo old chap!
I have just been made aware of the purpose of "smart motorways". Caught speeding (68mph) on an empty M25 in a variable speed limit area. Dry roads, bright conditions, no traffic. 6 points and £650 fine. Glad to see that the police are addressing the problem motorist. Look for the easy buck officers that's the best way of effective policing.
I'm certain that when they flash the 40mph signs it actually causes traffic. speed limit should be 90 and heavy fines and points for people who block outside lane and protest the speed limit. also permanent average speed check on north circular is cancer. I go 45 in 40 cause I know all speedos are 10% slower than actually displaying but I still end up being undertaken by people who think they're clear to floor it once past a camera. it's highly problematic. great video anyway even if I am a bit late👍🍻
''aie, air, we got Bob, Terry, Jim''. Priceless!!
love your impression of council/road workers :)
Baron should seriously consider doing some stand- up comedy, he's genuinely funny and smart.
He was stood up on his bike, you bell.
I have never paid the slightest attention to those useless signs because I have eyes so I can see a traffic jam lol
In NYC the Cross Bronx Expressway construction began about 50 years ago and was only completed in the last few years. At one point, the master architect/engineer died and no one knew what he'd done with the plans so they had to reconstruct the design in mid-project. Fun!
+2ndchildhood wow. tax payers money down the drain then!
+2ndchildhood wow. tax payers money down the drain then!
Anon San
For decades. Some of those roads have potholes large enough to swallow up a small car.
I fucking love this man .so spot on. These motorways have gone completely out of control. M23.m25.m4..and the witchin hour of 22.oo.the cones and closures are so effective. Then nothing.
Classic Baron moaning videos, it's what I tune in for, keep them coming!
9:18 these are my favorite parts of your videos, making fun of the cars people drive as i ride around is... so fun
Couldn't agree with you more dude - Question...how do you find the GS compared to your Gixxer 1000?
I love your rants they're literally the best, so amusing to hear all the shit you waffle on about haha, keep up the good work man
You cant say the sign is lying when you don't know what the full situation is.
If you want safer, higher quality road surfaces, you have to accept that you will face traffic.
You have to consider that the government build and upgrade things to fit most people in the population.
They do work at night time more because most people are spending time with their loved ones.
Actually the system does lie, once I was on the M6 it said accident and two lanes closed and there was nothing there,I was on the M25, it said broken down vehicle, two lanes closed, stuck for 2 hours, nothing there and I'm on the M20 it said queue ahead 40 and no queue
@@kingkarrotyt5277 right because when there is an accident or a brokedown car they tend to leave it there all day. maybe the cleared it before you got there.
Baron, don't even get me started on "protecting the workforce" that doesn't exist...
Interesting you say 60fps is blurry for you. I know you're using a Drift but I get the same problem on my Hero 4 when shooting any 4k footage. I reckon some cameras just aren't powerful enough to record at the frame rates and resolutions that they're rated at
The Astra impression had me in stitches
Good to hear the old Baron back!
I do agree with your rant and someone has to say it!
FUCK YEAH NEW VIDEO WOOOOOOOOOO
I am now calm - Thanks for the ramble Baron, been looking forward to a new video :)
Could not agree more Baronmeister. My commute is 23 miles each way and takes 1hr 20 to 1h 40 each morning in a car. I've done it in 30 minutes on a Sunday evening. (How it should be.) This country and it's infrastructure is just simply a joke. It's almost comical some mornings as I sit and commentate at lorries / buses / accidents every SINGLE FUCKING MORNING!! Nice one for speaking out about it.
A good ol Baron rant to start the day off. Today is going to be a good day
Nice to see you rocking the GS, I love mine even more this time of year..
+Zebb 300 soo good isnt it. Makes travel in the grime and misery a good thing looking at ill prepared other vehicles - 2 wheeled superiority complex ;)
+BaronVonGrumble Totally with you on the working from home thing, time and again I've asked my boss to let me work from home and all he ever says is "You're a Joiner".
At least you have all those lanes, The highways I take on my way to work only have 2 or 3 at most :P
We need more people like you to speak up for the British motorist.
Awesome sauce will we ever see a video on the atom ? keep doing what your doing!!
good video Baron. I think you showed the problem every western country has. Shity road contruction.
"Need some air in my foreskin like a wind sock". To funny.
I'm always mindful of other road users and road conditions, like you, I don't like these lying matrices and have been witness to the lies they display for Years.
Here in the US, there is a "high speed" train from Boston to New York. Only problem...? It's on "low speed" tracks, so it takes just as long as the regular train, but costs twice as much!
I know EXACTLY what you mean. You cannot filter on the M3 because the fucking lanes are so narrow while they fuck about. Whats that? The so called "smart" motorway has got rid of the brake down lane to increase traffic flow? Whats that? A SINGLE car has broken down?
MOTORWAY FUCKED. TALE BACKS FOR MILES
Well ranted Sir. You need to drive on the "A55 Express way" in north Wales, now that's "blatant lying".
Couldn't agree more.. we've got the smart motorways here aswel.. out of nowhere it all of a sudden says "oh, this is now the maximum speed due to "this" .. and there is nothing there.. the signs turn on, everybody freaks out, steps on the brakes.. and that actually nearly causes the incident that the signs warn about...
Same for roadworks, if they are actually working on the road, then fair enough.. but i've been driving past one bit of road that has now been having roadworks for 3.5 years and they are hardly ever working.. still.. the police is mooooore then happy enough to sit at that point with speed camera's though..
They're doing the same shit in the states, especially in California. Heading south down 101 from SF to anywhere during the week is a fucking chore. I'm convinced it's the bastards in silicon valley trying to condition us to digesting data/reading whilst driving. If I wanted to read I'd go to a library or back to school. Anyway, fantastic video as always.
Baron for prime minister!! Back to classic ranting, love it. Typically people would say they do the work at night on motorways but I say they should just pay two teams to do it. One for the day and one for the night to not only get it done quicker but save a bit of money paying the day guys less.
I never get sick of sir baronvongrumbles rants lol
and why can't there just be a guy sitting in front of a screen looking at the camera pictures and write on these useless monitors wether ist a queue or not? coasts probably 1/10000000 of what the roadworks coast.
but very nice vid. good to see the classic baron back ;)
Baron Von Ramble! Oh how I've missed this Baron!! Lol
gotta love the baron he really does say what everyone else thinks lol
The best part of "smart roads" is when you see written "Traffic jam ahead, slow down.", but you are already being stuck in traffic for 30 minutes...
That traffic gives me a vomit trigger every time I see it, it's part of how they are distracting you into becoming more compliant.
Double Bleedy Decker!!!! Love it Baron!!! Sunny side up m8? Keep it up Dude!!!!!!
I was riding into London the other week on my 675R and I got ranting to myself when I seen those number plates on cars, you know the ones with the blue European Union symbol with GB within the circle of stars? Why... Just, fucking why? That, and the whole fucking European Union in general, what is the point of it, why are we, the British, paying £55 Million a day (up until March it was something like £9 billion per year, at the end of this year it will be £10 billion, in three to five years time that figure will increase by another £3 billion) and for what? We don't make a profit out of it, the last time we did was in the early '90s. Because of trade? Bollocks! Don't need to be a part of the EU to trade! Then I got onto thinking about that HS2 bollocks, funnily enough you mentioned too, Baron. That was an epic rant, why we don't see Butterscotch flavoured ice cream, how does a snow plough driver get to work in the morning, and snow, yes. Why does this country come to a stand still when there's 1cm of snow? Norway don't! And this shit occurred before I got into London, imagine the shit that was about to hit, what sort of arse juice infested abuse am I going to come across. And that's the thing with this country, it's that steady fucking diet of disappointment, what the fuck! In the end, I just had a wank!
"Air in my foreskin like a windsock." - Baron von Grumble 2015
Whoever thought of the idea in the first place is a right nuthead. They are sooo dangerous. For example, if you break down IN BETWEEN 2 refuge points on say the M6, what do we do? Do we just scramble out of the car onto the bank where we see our car get smashed to pieces and others injured. What about if we come to a sudden stop and it's busy? It is pretty certain someone will run into the back of us... The highways agency's response to this is: "We monitor the motorways 24 / 7 and close any lanes if we need to to prevent this kind of thing happening". So we've learned 2 things there already: 1 being that this scheme is just a massive toy network where they can get money out of you and play around with the traffic; 2 being that they can't even justify themselves to a proper answer to my statement when I messaged them. Monitoring isn't enough. You don't get lane closed gantries every metre, how are we meant to feel safe? Another thing being, what happens if there's a traffic jam and emergency vehicles need to get by. They would usually use the hard shoulder, but oh wait they don't exist anymore! So how are the emergency services meant to get by to help someone out of a car who is potientially injured (therefore requiring ambulance, fire service, and maybe police) which is holding the traffic. Highways agency is a load of bo****x when it comes to motorways
They don't monitor it as well as they could.. the M1 runs practically though my back garden so I have a great view of how all this works , I've seen vehicles breakdown and usually the lanes shut within ten mins , but I've seen a van breakdown and all lanes be active for 40 mins too
I've also seen far more accidents now the hard shoulder has gone , there seems to be at least one a month just on the small bit I can see.. before that I saw only 2 accidents in 2 years, a lot of accidents come from rolling road blocks too, obviously the traffic behind the highways cars slow but then I see the braking get harder as more distance passes and on occasion somebody not concentrating smacking into the back of somebody..
HAHA the road worker bit got me
I do this journey M25 J14-M3 J4 nearly everyday, you entertained me thank you! :P
The reason they lie is so they can put the speed limit down to say 40mph. Consequently, the speed cameras turn on. Then they are getting money off you and there is nothing you can do. Fuck the roads
Apart from being 20 minutes quicker, I think HS2 is also meant to free up space on an already full existing main line. This means there is more room for local trains and freight.
Cheer up Baron....might never happen. Could you review R1200RS looks totally jiz worthy? the highway agency stasi have complety fucked it up again on the M3, I've seen three accidents already near the M25 as the road narrows into the road works....very smart. It's technology gone mad if you ask me, what was wrong with the old misleading matrix signs, you knew where you were with those. 50mph for no reason then End. Now they're just messing with our minds.
Great vid baron :-)
I know exactly how you feel Baron about our motorways, I have to travel frequently for my job and it took me just under 3 hours to get from Moorgate to Farnham, because of the ridicolous amounts of roads closed which caused my Satnav to throw a wobbly
Know exactly what you mean.
The M4/M5 interchange in Bristol is now "smart" and every morning there is a queue on the M5 turn off usually with a 40 MPH limit, so what do they do? Put the same 40MPH signs up over the completely clear M4 heading to Wales...
The best one I seen was after an incident on the M4 way before the tunnels in South Wales, after filtering to the front of the queue the accident was plain to see, the police let me and couple of other bikes through - there was no space for cars - literally NO traffic for the rest of the run bar the odd car coming on at the junctions and still the congestion signs lit up for miles with 40MPH restrictions in place due to the invisible congestion.
Nice to see an old school baron video, just missing the GSXR!
My uncle is very high up within the groups working on the motorway system, he works with both the british highway agency and the Dutch highway agency ( cant remember their official name ) also he is working in america to bring them up to date with theirs. The changes are actually crucial to getting the motorways working properly. The current / outdated system is not modular or universal so there are companies charging literally hundreds of thousands to " fix " the problems we have at the moment but are not actually fixing anything. This upgrading to a smart motorway is bringing in new software architecture so that when there is a problem they can effectively fix it. Also the new systems being put into place can actually collect information like speed / traffic density / traffic flow and other bits through signals being transmitted from the cars to be more effective. Also the motorways at the moment cant communicate with itself over long distances, example: there's a crash on the m1 that will have an effect on the m25, the motorway cant see this information with the current system so it cant effectively work with itself and its variable speed limits to increase traffic flow. The new system means every motorway and every information collection point can communicate and reduce traffic down time. I know its annoying at the moment ( i spend around 5 hours a day on average commuting ) but its a massive upgrade that needs to be done. It will take some time but if we don't do it the problem will never be addressed properly.
+Jack Green None of this will make ANY difference except to have a negative impact on the UK motorist. It's all about money and nothing else.
Do you know how much the economy suffers from people being stuck in traffic? Yeah it's about money, but in this situation it's a positive thing for both the government and the people using the motorways.
Jack Green
Whatever you say. The experience of those that use the motorways especially the so called smart M25 is extremely negative. The M25 is not known as the largest car park in the world for nothing. Smart motorways are geared up for extracting money from the UK motorist. Many of the new cameras on the M25 are operated by private companies so it is in their interest to earn revenue from these cameras and the smart motorway.
Did you not read my original comment? It's not finished yet and it won't be 100% effective until it is. They are operated by private companies because they are the companies that deal with the systems in place. I think I have enough experience of motorways, I be put 46,700 miles on my van this year alone. You're just angry because you are stuck in your ways. Learn to learn
Jack Green First of all I'm not angry. Secondly I'm not stuck in my ways, stuck in traffic yes more often than not because of roadworks, accidents or the M25 smart motorway farce. 46k miles? Good for you. Uncle works on the motorways? Good for him. I refer you to my earlier reply that none of this makes any positive difference to the UK motorist. It only serves to line the pockets of private companies with yet more public money. I reckon you need to learn more about how the financial merry go around works in this country and pretty much elsewhere. This is a small county with too many vehicles on the road and no amount of smart cobblers will sort it out. I don't care how many signs your uncle puts up on the motorways there is no benefit to drivers.