Secrets of The Motorway - M32
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2022
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If you live in Bristol, you'll know all about the M32 motorway that carves it's way into the city centre. It seems to be packed into as tight a space as possible and somehow doesn't really seem to offer much of a solution when it comes to Bristol's transport needs.
But that's boring so I'll be making a few stops along this short motorway to take in some of the sights and landmarks that can be found along the M32. Old "Mental hospitals" for children, radio towers, anti aircraft artillery... it's quite a mix of subjects this week!
In this series we aim to explore what our motorway network is hiding. As we drive along at 70mph..ish...we simply just wouldn't be aware of what we're missing. This series aims to uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer.
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This channel probably wins the TH-cam award for “shouldn’t be entertaining or remotely interesting but absolutely is”
People watch this for the same reason why people watch Geoff Marshall or Jay Forman; random and fascinating things to know about the infrastructure you use on a daily basis. Its the kind of stuff that you would probably never know otherwise.
One of the best TH-cam channels at the moment 🥳 I look forward to John’s (or Jon’s?) Sunday issue… Quirky, geeky, nerdy, whatever… Awesome. There is definitely a whole lot to spark the imagination here… ‘What if…?’
This and summoningsalt’s gaming speedruns.
I’m not sure why it’s such compelling viewing either but it is 😂
I suspect someone out there could make sewer covers interesting.
Many of the children from Dower House went on to be politicians on Bristol City Council's transport committee. 🙂
"Before shitting you out not quite in the middle of Bristol" 😂 im dead 😂😂
hehehe :D
Allegedly Bristol has the worst traffic jams in the country, even beating London. So “Shitting you out” is wholly a appropriate comment.
7:13 Made my heart drop, the graffiti on the house in the background is DJ Derek. I lived and worked in a pub in the centre of Bristol for a number of years and DJ Derek was a regular of mine. Lovely, lovely man. I had moved away from Bristol a few months earlier and heard about him being missing in the news. RIP Derek. Had so many good chats with him, it's great to see Bristol remembering him the way he deserved.
Thanks - I would have missed that without your comment.
I saw the graffiti artwork up close on the day and it was wonderful.. but I have to admit, I didn't know who Derek was.
I went to Bristol last week and was able to bore everyone on the National Express with the facts I learnt from this episode. Well timed..
Clearly you know how to get the party started!!
Maybe I’m biased being Bristol based, but I felt this is one of the best videos you’ve done. I found it really interesting to hear the history of it and the humour around the councils was so accurate!
"The weed and graffiti capital of England"
Did you get sorted?
"It runs for a total of 4 1/2 miles, before SH*TTING you out not quite in the centre of Bristol"
John I just adore your eloquence, pmsl 🤣🤣🤣
Give this man a TV series!
You are not wrong.
Sunday wouldn't be Sunday without another exciting episode of Auto Shenanigans 😁
I love Brizzle, but I hate the M32. Half assed doesn’t begin to describe it. It doesn’t have many junctions, but somehow they managed to put them as close together as possible in two groups.
Also, that odd layout at the very end of the motorway/A4032 only dates from the mid 00s. Originally the route ended at a traffic light controlled T-junction on the A4044 roughly where the Superdry store is in the Cabot Circus shopping mall. The entire road was rerouted when the shopping mall was built to create extra space for the facility. While it was chaotic during its construction, it has actually improved the traffic flow in the area.
He actually did the M32, the mad lad.
We don't talk about the Metrobus. We should have had a proper tram system instead :(
Also I noticed the scortched grass by the Dower House is still there - someone thought it would be a REALLY good idea to have a BBQ on the dry grass in the crazy high summer heat. Dumb bastards.
Worth a like for the Neighbours theme alone
"The weed and graffiti capital of England"
It's nice to get some recognition for all our hard work
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That’s a lovely looking HAA battery. More please!
The second viaduct in your film was not part of the Clifton extension railway but part of the old LMS route to Bath green park and then on to the S&D.
Junction 1 was a roundabout in the early 90s, only became a teardrop in the late 90’s
The large Tesco by Junction 2 is on the sight of Bristol Rovers old ground Eastville, the car park of the said Tesco used to have a floodlight pylon still in its corner for many years after its demolition and was a focal point from the carriage ways.
Same with Wigan rugby league’s old ground “Central Park”
That was demolished and Tesco built on it
Funny as ever John...how anyone can make a laugh on a motorway is a legend
As a pensioner resident of Bradley Stoke the arrival of the Metrobus was a boon. The junction that is “not a junction” was used accidentally by my other half and she is one of those caught by the camera - luckily, it was right at the beginning of this system so she just got a “slap on the wrist”. It is still quite easy to take this slip road by accident thinking it was Junction 1 since apart from signage it really looks like a normal junction.
Haha Grundy... now there is a name from the past. In the early 90's, as a tape op, I used to see that logo every day at the end of transmitting episodes of Neighbours on BBC1. The main thing I recall about those Grundy re-editted neighbours tapes was that the tech standards were always all over the place... so on the whole I think you might be doing yourself down! Your video was fascinating as always. Every week I look forward to seeing the next installment.
The house was built in 1553 by Sir Richard Berkeley. Rebuilt by Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt circa 1760, it eventually became used as a dower house by the dukes of Beaufort at nearby Badminton House. This included Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (the son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort) and wife Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort whose daughter's obelisk can be found to this date on the hill she died on from falling off a horse.
Dower House is rumoured to be haunted by the ghost of a girl named Elizabeth Somerset, who died in 1760 from injuries sustained after tumbling from her horse.
Many visitors have claimed that they have heard galloping hooves as they travel through - although horses haven't been on the grounds for years.
Steve England, a conservation educator and RHS horticulturist, states that “I’ve heard the sound of thumping hooves behind me on numerous occasions, once so vividly I jumped out of the way, but there was nothing there."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dower_House,_Stoke_Park
Bus priority at signalled junctions (I assume that's what he was referring to with buses "making a nuisance of themselves" lol) is great! Very effective and actually quite simple in practice. There's so much more going on behind the scenes at signalled junctions than people would ever realise. Would be interesting to see how Bristol have set theirs up as you can opt for varying levels of damage depending on how much you want to prioritise buses. Stuff like bus-specific infrastructure (eg the bus-only junction) is the most effective but massively expensive by comparison.
they didn't i don't think, i regularly use the metrobus, its shittier than the average route
Brissle's expense whores never utilize much brain. When they put the bus lane on Fishponds road the buses got significantly worse. Why? Because they simply moved the problem upstream as well as creating a massive traffic jam from The Causeway all the way into town. Previously, the jam started at Eastville park.
The M32 also affected railways. When it was being built, it was on the listings as 'Parkway'. They created an out of the city station to get the workers to work. They called it "Bristol Parkway". Now, most out of town stations on the network that have large car parks are called Parkway Stations. (Didcot, Tiverton, etc...)
Without doubt, the progression of this series is now easily (what use to be) terrestrial T.V standard and represents why I choose my 'channel' watching on TH-cam. My actual T.V has sat in the corner, not switched on, for over a year and is now a dark flat paperweight. Boy am glad TV's got thinner and easier to push into forgotten corners.
Fire the tv back up and watch youtube videos on it, its a gamechanger
I must admit.. I use the TV only to watch TH-cam these days. remember the tube tv days... 40kg of JVC brick always in the way. Thanks for watching!
@Joe Bryant couldn't agree more; not watched network TV in anger for maybe 3 - 4 years! The sheer depth of quality channels like AS is testament 👍🏿
This is my one of my favourite channels on TH-cam doesn't dance around words I love it
Great video John , no F*&KING WASPS this week lol . Keep up the fantastic content
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Really good research as a Bristolian I tip my hat to you. Also as an editor on countyasylums I can say you covered the mental defectives angle really well. One thing you did miss maybe was the site of the old football ground (now ikea) and the river froome that runs by it - when levels rise it’s diverted through the northern storm water drain - you can see the sluice gates on the left hand side before J2 if heading out on M32. One of the biggest and longest drains in country and helps keep Bristol flood free since 1960s (mostly….)
I don't miss Bristol Rovers being in Eastville lol , shame though because the Sunday market was a regular haunt as a young un 😊
@@shaunw9270 nor the gas works behind it!
I'm glad that being mentally defective means I try to learn new things every day and further my knowledge with great TH-cam channels and content such as this one
That's when good neighbours, become good friends.
The inner ring (circuit) road was notable for including a dual carriageway section straight through the middle of Queen Square leaving a statue marooned in the central reservation. Hard to believe when you see that area today.
Great video - informative, snappy, harsh on grade one soil. Thank you!
F**k off! 😂😂😂 grade one soil🤦♂️😂😂
Love this channel.
0:38Has to be the best phrase I've heard yet in this series 😻
Used to see/hear that road everyday as a kid before moving to Australia. The only time you didn't hear it was when Concorde (built about 3 miles away from the M32, not too far away from the Dower House) was on a test flight and drowned it out! The 5 bucks is a bribe to never use the instrumental Neighbours theme again!
Love yer work!
Up at Filton that would have been. Bribe accepted and I shall never use neighbours again, many thanks for showing me the way :D Straya or Bristol... tough choice.
This channel makes me feel proud to be British. Taking one of our most mundane things and making it genuinely interesting without any smirk of irony or judgement. Brilliant channel!
What the hell... I think you could read your shopping list and make it entertaining. You've turned the most unpromising of subject matter into must watch entertainment. Who knew our motorway network has so many fascinating hidden secrets.
Great work guys.
I might try the shopping list video.. sounds great.
@@AutoShenanigans 😆😂🤣
Another motorway I use! Once a year to go to a Tug of War competition down near Bristol airport.
After 200 miles from the east coast those few miles of the M32 go a bit unnoticed, and then it just fizzles out and you're trying to decide which lane to get in to find the airport. I normally get it wrong.
Probably best to carry on and go south on M5 and come off at Gordano Services and make your way to the airport from that point.. that way you will miss the shithole of Bristol and it’s ridiculous traffic!
3:05. That was a genuine “fuck off” 😂😂😂
Could really feel the ignorance of it.
Ontario Canada. There is a area of land by the Great Lake Erie, Point Pelee park, that has a lot of deer. Each year there is a culling of the deer. Animal activists stopped this. As there are no predators, deer population exploded. A few winters later, half of the herd starved to death. This is what happens when idiots get their way. The activists still wanted the culling stopped. Now the park is closed by the Caldwell First Nation every few years to cull the herd. The activists still try to stop it, but Point Pelee is Caldwell traditional hunting grounds. A group of people who has been together for a few decades think they know more than a group of people who have been together for almost 1,000 years. So fuch off is right.
@@4879daniel The ignorance of activists. I agree.
Thanks for finally covering this stretch that I have to find a way of traversing over (or under at junction 2) almost every day. The route cuts large parts of the city in half as efficiently as a giant wall, and underpasses or pedestrian bridges are all too infrequent. Bonus fun fact: Purdown tower is also known to us Bristolians as the UFO spaceport. You missed the fact it also runs over the River Frome for quite a long distance.
Here we go again! Another motorway used quite extensively back in the mid noughties when working in Bristol rationalising and reorganising property/accommodation for the company I worked for. Always wondered about the ‘house’ (Dower) overlooking the motorway near J2 - thought the owner might have been a tad miffed at a motorway being built in his front garden … maybe even becoming mentally defective - and deciding to downsize into a very reasonably priced 3 bed terrace house in Napier Road … to get away from it all …
This video is longer than the M32!
You certainly found a lot of interesting content to make up for the lack of length of the motorway! Perhaps one day, you'll do the madness of Birmingham's little motorway spur: the A38(M) - trenches, viaducts, pasta and a now disused vinegar pipeline - plus the continuation of the madness as the A38(not M) weaves its way through and under the city before dumping you unceremoniously at a giant traffic light crossroads on the Southern edge of the centre.
You didn't mention that the name Parkway Comes from Bristol Parkway however it was called that not because it was a park and ride station, but because the first section of the M32 was called The Parkway because it went through park land and they name just stuck.
Also surprised you didn't mention the River Frome and the Stormwater Interceptor.
3:07 *PLEASE GOD, NOT THE SOIL. TAKE ANYTHING BUT MY PRECIOUS GRADE 1 SOIL!* 😭😭😭😭
Love this video John, great work!
My hometown.. fantastic once again John 👍
Your best one yet, nearly spat my lunch out twice over the hospital comments “different times” 😂😂
Thanks mate, that's awesome and really helpful :)
We have a similar guided bus system that serves Cambridge that some wag renamed the misguided busway! I love your delivery style. Just wonderful. Your humour is not dry, its arid!
"that was all ignored, and they cracked on with it"...absolutely brilliant!
It had me in stitches! Reminded me of when Jay Foreman said in his ringways video, “and we wouldn’t want to build a motorway on this beautiful area because… eww” as a picture of the horrible neighbourhood as of today is shown
The "Grundy" at the end, is simply the cherry on the cake!
Thanks for another wonderful video.
Regular user of the M32 over the last 20 years.
Often wondered what that big building on the hill was.
That outro was a cinematic masterpiece
The roundabout at the M4 was still there for a long time after opening, it was made into a tear-drop in the 90s/00s when the lights were added to aid flow off the M4.
And if you look at the overhead shot, you can see new shiny armco (exit of M4 west as well) where nobheads still drive into it at motorcways speeds. Coming off the M32, they used to get as high as the M4. Those were the days.
Another excellent video John, I thank you.
1:12-1:20 The old part of the M4 Junc 19 roundabout only got removed a few years ago, and has only been a teardrop junction for about a decade. I remember it used to be s full roundabout but during the early-mid 2010s they took out the extra bits and made it the teardrop junction it is today.
Yay!!!
Thanks John.
Bloody criminal seeing that brick viaduct being blown up 💥🤯🥺🧱👍🏼
Great video as always, I look forward to them all! Keep up the great work:)
Superb episode!
Cheers John, some classic script this week - bravo
Thanks for the deluge of interesting information!
Your content is fast paced, informative, humorous and interesting to people who probably dont normally care about this stuff.
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Thanks a lot mate!
very interesting, my grand parents lived in napier road in eastville and i remember them knocking down the houses up the road, also the only compensation my nan got was double glazing to keep the noise out of the m32 only yards away, both my grand parent were nurses at the hospital and it may have been a grim place, i did go there for xmas parties in the mid 60's. the aa guns on purdown hill were called purdown percy and the houses shook when they fired.
Great to hear about actual memories of these things.
That bus junction has ZERO signage. I’ve been caught by it. Now they send you a warning but if you do it again they slap you with a fine. But the thing is, if you take the wrong exit at the previous roundabout (which is common because it seems everyone in Bristol got their license in a McDonald’s happy meal) you instinctively take that exit to come back since the next one is literally miles away.
Top notch as always 👏👏👍😀
Another video in my favourite series. It's always a fantastic notification at the end of the week!
Great video as always. Always look forward to finishing work for a video on a Sunday
Auto Shenanigans: The gift that keeps on giving.
Another great insight to slow mis management or planning. great videos keep it up. Thanks Bob
Your timing is incredible me and my family was just talking about that stretch of road on Sunday. I love the "if you didn't like you kids back then, you could just fuck'um away!"
Another great video, well done!
Really enjoy your content, keep it coming. Thanks!
Pudown Tower. You needed a B&W photo when it was covered in microwave dishes to give it justice. Just past J2 used to be the home to Bristol Rovers where my dad would drag my in the early 70's. Now IKEA. Whilst the gasworks have gone, (Rover's fans weren't gasheads for nothing, the 6 high pressure gas bullets are still there.
And did you notice the barbed wire fencing on the bridge (Heath House Lane). Believe it was installed to stop mentally unstable locals jumping onto the M32 and coming through your windscreen.
At 8m44s, you get it all wrong. The outer circuit road you then call the outer ring road, doesn't help the scales fo your maps change. Well the outer on the B&W map was built as the A4074(R). I remember being taken there for a school trip to watch the tractors in the early 70's,. What a trip! 🙂They have recently added to it since in a fashion, and you can get all the way around to the A370.
Still laughed and learnt some stuff I didn't know. I know it is 2022, but along the lane that passes over the M32 with the barbed wire fence... there is a building on Google Maps titlted, Bristol North Learnnig Difficulties Team. Maybe the fence is still needed.
And don't mention the Metrobus to people who still live there.
Could have mentioned Noel Edmunds used to drive a black cab in the bus lanes with a mannequin called Candice in the back to get to work on time - untol he got caught.
Thanks again for delighting my Sunday/Monday 😊
Thanks mate! Appreciate you watching :)
Great video. All the best 🇬🇧.
Fab video as always John and I howled with the Neighbours outro and the Grundy logo 🤣 I grew up watching Neighbours ❤
I think a lot of us grew up with Neighbours ! :D
Wonderful stuff thanks
M4 Junction 19 used to have a full roundabout until surprising recently I think. I couldn't say exactly when, but I remember it being there maybe around 2010. Don't quote me on that though. I was born in '99 so it has only definitely changed in the last 20 years.
Another great video. Keep them coming
Hi John. Superb video and great content (and comments) as usual. 👍 Cheers, Jon.
Great videos ,keep up the good work dude.
Another cracking video 👏👏👏👏
How times have changed Mentaly Defective Children.... Ah a guided bus way, Edinburgh tried that and that failed, so much so the trams now use it, another fantastic video mate as always.
I know this grotty little motorway well as have a friend who lives barely a mile off jct 1. Hardly the most pleasant introduction to what is a fine city..
Great video - reminds me of my days using the M32 as a student at UWE Bristol.
these video's make me want to finally fix my traffic problems in cities skylines. Honestly a brilliant way to showcase these otherwise mundane series of automobile infrastructures. Greetings from the netherlands!
One of my favourite things ti do in cities skylines … fixing traffic 😂
Bedankt. Are you guys "Open for business" I'm long overdue a trip to the Netherlands!
good public transport and car alternative infrastructure, why the netherlands has better traffic than places like the UK and USA Been using this strat in cities for years and my cities are both pretty and on 85%+ traffic flow
Thank you for this episode. I especially enjoyed seeing those graffiti images at Purdowns Camp, where it looked like they had enough time to paint some good portraits. I also had a feeling that your style of presenting this series of motorway shenanigans can be comparable to The Tim Traveller's way of presenting his videos, only with a more gritty feeling to it, which fits well in with the subject of motorway oddities. Nice work. Thank you again for giving us this sense of being there with you.
thanks for watching mate!
Excellent mate, enjoying the channel, stay safe be lucky
Ikea, Home of Bristol Speedway. My Grandfather used to race his motorcycle there.
Also the average speedcheck from Fishponds into town, the highest profit speed cameras in the country.
I have a mental picture of your grandfather doing a ton through IKEA.
Big up Bristol
Great bit of Grundy at the end there.
Love your content my man, and beautiful shot at the end
Thanks a lot!
Another awesome video there John.
Catch you in the next one mate.
*Waves Bye*
Welcome to the city I call home, it's gert lush.
hi john l always found your episodes informative and fun to watch 🙂
I loved the title card intro a la Route 66. Brilliant.
I always wish these were longer & went into even more detail. I’m like, wait wait what!!??
Missed that in the drone shots around 4:32 you can see there is plenty of burnt vegetation. This was done thanks to a group of numpties leaving a disposable BBQ to burn away whilst the country was in the grips of a drought. Genius.
i heard about that
ahh.. I did wonder why it looked different. Now I know!
Nice one, a lot of detail for such a short motorway. I had alays wondered what Dower House was all about, such a prominent building when leaving Bristol. You hva answered the question thanks
One of the bet yet, keep em coming 😃
Hey 'My name is John' (I've salutated that so much, I just gotta keep it going lol) hands down, I think this is one of your finest works to date! Seriously, the legwork and research alone deserves some sort of YT Channel Of The Year award. Loved the witty humour (grade-A soil 🤣) tinged with a double-edged tounge-lashing of how society treated mental illnesses back in the day, local authority ANPR shenanigans, war stuff, bus routes - yo, my parsnips were well and truly buttered! And all this in a 3.5 junction motorway! Had to comment even before the outro finished, so going back in to complete. Keep up the good work fellas 👍🏿
Cheers mate! I think this episode worked out really well, it's probably my favourite so far I think.