Here Jon, you've been producing some great videos this year and we all enjoy them. Use this to buy yourself and Ringway a beer when you next meet up! Or just buy yourself two beers if no meet-up is imminent!
@@andymerrett I believe that the evaporation rate is high when these two meet, so liquid replacements may be needed! I find it interesting how many people are interested in both the technology around radio and the background to motorways and watch both channels. I can't think of any good reason why this should be the case....
@@AutoShenanigans are you doing a, "Dirty Secrets of the Motorway, Johnny Pisshands, Christmas Special", in June ??????????????????????? as THAT is the sort of high brow, vulgar, insanity, I expect, from your bespoke You Tube channel.
Can we all just appreciate that Jon just doesn’t drive around the country on our road network, but spends time researching all these interesting facts and figures. I doff my cap to him.
By uncovering the secrets of our motorway network, you are shedding light on a part of our infrastructure that we often take for granted. Best of luck with your project!
This series makes me wonder to myself, in my head, “why the planning and implantation of roads takes so long in this country” and now I realise I have a problem that can only be shared with my fellow enthusiasts of Secrets of the Motorway
To be fair, you think the planning and implementation of roads takes a long time, my understanding is that its even longer for railways. Something along the lines of you can build a motorway anywhere, but you have to ensure the soil beneath a new railway is actually suitable... To be clear, I'm sure they do check that the soil is good beneath a road, but my understanding is that thar isn't vital to the road getting approval.
With respect, it sounds to me (a "Yank") maybe each segment of motorway crosses local planning groups, all of which have virtual veto power. In California USA the State government has had the power of imminent domain, and "buys" land to build and enlarge roads. Locals can whine but the State can grade and pave, often with Federal dollars.
Would've been nice to mention that the abandoned section of A656 at the end is actually on the course of an old Roman road - the original inter-city highway displaced after nearly 2,000 years by its modern equivalent.
During construction of a housing development on the fringes of Garforth closest to J47 of the M1 they found evidence of an old Roman settlement and more recently whilst undertaking archaeological surveys on the site of a proposed industrial estate beside this junction they found Roman and Anglo Saxon graves which is one of the first times in the country that they have found humans from both backgrounds buried alongside each other. Apparently they were buried in different orientations and one of the bodies was found in a lead coffin
On absolutely fine form this week. 'realised I could milk another episode out of it' 😂 And I don't think there's a better explanation of the Shard out there. Bravo!
Haha, brilliant! Love the Emerdale reference at the end 😂😅🤣 In truth I think that far fetched soap operas about unbelievably accident prone small communities have far more basis for plausibility than the stranger-than-fiction self serving nonsense surrounding our road building 🙄 Love that old steam engine house. Those old Newcomen machines must have been awe inspiring to the simple folk of the time who were still accustomed to eating mud for breakfast and supper, travelling everywhere by lame donkey and worked 27 hours a day to live in a hut made of nothing more than sheep carcasses and leftovers from breakfast. Probably 🤔 Always a shame to see old industrial sites not repurposed where nature has struggled to readdress the balance, but in time I am sure it will revert. They probably had a ‘repurposing’ clause in the contract. Which got cancelled…🤷🏻♂️ Cheers John, fantastic fun as ever 🥂🍀😜🌞
I'd love a video on whoever designed the barriers on the bridges. I've got strong memories of the ones over the M62 looking like the ones from today's video. Boring I know, but they look made for purpose and pretty standardised too. I'm also a massive fan of the silent protest in the way that some shots are filmed in utter shithole locations. It's only when you start to work in infrastructure that you realise how much litter, flytipping and all-round arseholery goes on in the UK. Keep up the great work!
There were 4 optional routes to link the M1 Kirkhamgate and A1 in Yorkshire. The purple and blue routes were strongly objected to by the residents of Arthington in the Wharfe valley and would have used a possible corridor between Leeds and Bradford. This left the red and brown routes that would go through 'cheaper' areas to the south and east of Leeds. I can't remember where the exact joining points were to be but I believe it was the red route that won. The A1 through Yorkshire was then progressively upgraded past Wetherby ending today as a 3+3 lane motorway.
Couple of extra tit bits of local info... The original Emley moor mast fell due to the weight of ice built up on the supporting cables, and not due to high winds. This fell down without causing any injuries, despite falling through the roof of the nearby chapel which was occupied at the time. Interestingly (or not) part of the old tower was subsequently repurposed as the control tower at Huddersfield rowing club... In Holmfirth. With respect to the last cancellation of the Flockton M1 / M62 link road, the final nail in the coffin for that was the "successful" 'Sink the Link" campaign which encouraged local residents to petition against the proposed road... Due to the noise of vehicles using it would have on nearby residents of Flockton.... ...so instead that traffic continues to use the A road through Flockton, causing frequent accidents and eventually leading to installation of single flow traffic lights in a narrow section due to the inability of HGVs to pass each other... Not sure that was the cleverest move ever...🤔
Blimey Jon my memory is going. I saw that tthis was part 2 and immediately thought, "wait what? I'm sure you didn't do the M1 last week..." and then you reminded me of something I had forgotten, which I am now going back to re-watch.
Those cable cars were also used to carry Churchill tanks manufactured at Newton & Chanbers during the war, also the area round J36 was used extensively in Ken Loach's film Kes.
I have childhood memories of travelling the last section in the nineties before it opened. My dad worked for construction company at the time and took me to work on a Saturday and we traveled on part of the motorway before it had opened to the public. Remember him teaching me about road camber and about rumble strips by letting go of the steering wheel and explaining why they exist.
Funny thing about the M1-A1 link road that although you have to leave the M1 to stay on the M1 at Junction 43, when you get past Junction 47 you stay on the M1 to join the A1(M) and when you're coming south, you have to leave the A1(M) to stay on the A1(M) because if you stay on the A1(M) you actually join the M1.
Have you ever thought of covering how Motorway Services have changed since opening. I can recall how Knutsford and Charnock Richard have changed from table service restaurant to fast food. The famed Forton services with its high level restaurant, again now closed. There are many classic interior shots and outdoor photos to fit the timeline from opening to today.
Nice to see the mention of Emley Moor. Ice on the cable stays was the root cause of the Emley Moor tv mast collapse in 1969. If you look at the mast as half of a vertical suspension bridge, ice build-up stretched the cable stays allowing the wind to then twist the mast ultimately causing its demise. One of the flaying stays (cables several inches in diameter) cut the chapel over the road clean in half. Belmont has since had many tons of chain hung inside to dampen this twisting. The total height of Emley Moor tower was in fact reduced due to antenna redesign caused by Ofcom mandated frequency changes.
Good point about redoing roads and junctions affording the NHS. A current example of this is the M4 M5 interchange which is being dug up again this year!
Our Sunday dose of A S S 👍🏼 I like the lofthouse interchange when leaving the M1 S for the 62. It reminds me of The Nemesis at Alton towers 🤷🏽😂. That’s John for warming our hearts with more FACTS 👍🏼
We need that motorway from Manchester to Sheffield now. You have traffic from Liverpool, Manchestrer, Bradford and Leeds, all using the same single motorway to get to Sheffield.
This series is obviously influenced by Geoff Marshalls Secrets of the Underground (including a nod or two to Geoff in the past). One thing is for sure though, Johns sense of humour shines through much more. Gotta love it, keep it up.
John its good see you have finally made it up my neck of the woods here in Wakefield, if I had known you could have popped in for a cup coffee!. You might not be aware that when the M1 extension to the A1 was built it was closed again for some parts of it had to be resurfaced due the noise levels coming from the concrete road surface. Local residents complained and the surface was replaced.
John love the videos and your commentary.......its a refreshing change to hear common sense being spoken and the info on the motorways is really interesting. You are spot on re your comment about doing the junction 3 times but we cant afford the NHS. Keep up the great videos........quality work.
Tell you what else is wicked, sweet, awesome; watching the subscribers tick up ever closer to that 100K target. Well done John and team for continuing to put out such quality content, I'm enjoying the little studio based uploads too.
4:42 - how did that tyre get on to that lamp post? You find the most interesting places to do your voiceovers and the background details are amazing. The Newcomen tower, the furnace, a pedestrian tunnel under the motorway. We mere drivers never see these details, except on your videos. Love it.
The link between the M25 from the M4 to the M1 south is always fun !! m25 then via Watford , via crazy roundabouts that force you to back into Watford, then the m1 ... link road from the m25 direct to the m1 , thats what they need... lol
Thanks for interesting info I didn’t know about a stretch of motorway I use regularly. Incidentally the current roadworks on the M62 around the Lofthouse interchange with the M1 sometimes makes it quicker to use the M621 as a link road.
Great video John. Junction 45, which took forever to open was used for filming of a police car crash scene on Emmerdale prior to it opening. The bumpy nature of the M1 south of Garforth j46 (A63 Colton junction) is due to subsidence from the old mine tunnels. Finally, why on earth did they not create a free-flowing slip road to travel south bound onto the A1 from the north bound M1 and vica-versa from North bound A1M to south bound M1. Traffic has to travel through Garforth using j46 or j47 and queues back. NUTS!
love it, just think, all these plans, cancelled plans, re-plans, re-plans of cancelled re-plans, keep the consultants and planners in the way they like to live
Spot on point about the wastage of money in this country. Too many levels of authority, too many wages going on non producers out of the public pot and too many final salary pensions for lazy bubble wrapped local government workers and civil servants
Thanks, Jon. Getting my "Motorway fix," I am now ready for doing whatever I'll be doing this week. Oh, right: I turn 74 years old! Amazing. Have a great week, yourself. Bye.
@@AutoShenanigans In the 1950's I still remember construction of the first segment of Interstate 8 through San Diego's Mission Valley. Went from old U.S. 80 2 lane road through farm lands to a limited access freeway (motorway) through hotels & offices. Actually, the worst change are the incompetent and self-centered drivers, now.
J46 wasn't originally so ridiculous, they got changed a fair while ago (10 years?) but I'm not sure why - It could be the new access roads to the business park to the west of the motorway. You can see ghost slip roads just to the southwest of where the A6120 dumbell roundabout goes under the M1
Great vlog, very informative. I liked the info about the mines. My Dad’s company worked with lots of coal mines, designing conveyor belts in the UK and overseas.
4:48 Just to the left of the superimposed arrow is an area known as the Fairy Fields. It was here that teenage friends and I built a dugout, and the construction of the M1 provided many materials and supplies for our den. The M1 in those days went on into Leeds. My memory is that the stretch through Hunslet Carr was built at the same time as the stretch between Belle Isle (named after the bell-pit mines of the area) and Robin Hood/Rothwell (Hi to AdventureMe!). I can't remember a termination at Stourton. Are there are any other Leeds old gits out there who could clarify?
With the Shard go to the bar that is two floors below the exceedingly expensive viewing area, it’s free (although drinks are not what you’d call spoons prices) and you get the same view. Just make sure you look like you know where you’re going when you enter the building so Security don’t pounce and kick you out….
My old stomping grounds. My sister lives near Rothwell. We grew up at Garforth. The link road was great for cycling and running before it opened, many times I rode from Aberford to Colton and back along the new road.
M62/M1 interchange - a joy! Used it regularly back in the early 00’s when working temporarily in Leeds when courting the now Mrs Ulazygit … she lived in Pollington and I was a specialist Property Strategist for a blue chip company, hence my extensive access to many UK motorways … those were the days!
Nothing seems more frustrating, than there being roadworks on a Motorway for a couple if years... the seemingly not that long after the works have finished they are back doing more work on the same section!
Another excellent insight, again the amount of miles I'd travelled along these sections of motorway and never a thought for its history! I remember some of the new sections being built. Cheers Jon 👍
7m40s Whilst trying to process what I've just learnt in this video, that looks like an Easter Island stone to your left. Luckily it's content and blind, yet not hungry. Enjoy your coffee, doughnut, beer, litre of 4 star or whatever it is you get up to this week for £5's Cheers, it's Steve in CAPITALS LETTERS :-)
Ta muchly, quite satisfactory to have an M1 that finally joins up with the A1. Can we have a video on the A1(M) please. Still antsy that Geoff and Jay's big trip up the A1 clagged out when they got to the M25 instead of Scotland. Bet there are a lot of secrets they missed.
@@AutoShenanigans 😃wow, just like that, there it is, starting right where Geoff & Jay went to sleep! And I thought you were going to going to say anything (M) didn’t qualify!
It’s been a good few years since I used the M1/A1 junction, but I remember that it had signs warning of a “wide hard shoulder”. I don’t know why this was something that drivers needed to be warned about, but warned about it they were. Looking at Google Earth, they no longer seem to be there, which saddens me for some reason.
I used to live next to the M1 near to the Rothwell interchange. That's as exciting as this post gets. I continue to use the M1 regularly and the bit where you have to come off to go back on is a real pain. Satnavs just can't cope with the confusion. 😂
I lived in the area when the " new" M1 was under consultation and there were concerns that Temple Newsam house would be affected by the initial works and the traffic vibrations afterwards. Went ahead eventually.
Two words - Risk Assessment. If they'd ever used that, most of these ghost slip roads and ill-conceived motorways wouldn't exist, let alone some of the behemoth junctions. On the other hand, I'd have far less enjoyment in my weekend because you'd not be in it Jon. Keep up the good work!!
You're SO right about our ability to waste money in this country. But if you've ever worked in the NHS, you'd know that's exactly where the most profligate waste happens. Like £280,000 for new fire doors in an old hospital- at the same as the new, replacement hospital down the road was less than a year away from being finished.
It's across the entire public sector unfortunately not just the NHS. There is a general attitude of "it's not my money" when making decisions leading to huge waste and many failed projects.
@@Dan-Athema You're right, of course. But it's not only the "not my money" attitude- it's also downright stupidity. How could a 22 year-old, fresh out of university with a 2-2 in women's studies, possibly know how much a pair of fire doors is supposed to cost??
This show continues to be the best thing about Sundays
Agreed. Added to both Martin Zero's and the Prague Honest Guide's weekly Sunday uploads, and they make for a very happy Sunday indeed.
Along with UK Dashcams...
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Completely agree! 😂
True dat, highlight of my week😊
Here Jon, you've been producing some great videos this year and we all enjoy them. Use this to buy yourself and Ringway a beer when you next meet up! Or just buy yourself two beers if no meet-up is imminent!
@@andymerrett I believe that the evaporation rate is high when these two meet, so liquid replacements may be needed! I find it interesting how many people are interested in both the technology around radio and the background to motorways and watch both channels. I can't think of any good reason why this should be the case....
@@Mike-H_UK I think it is because Jon receives the messages from the numbers stations operated by shadow secret NGO's ... ha, ha. Cheers.
@@andymerrett Aye 😢
@ringwaymanchester already owes me a beer so he can do one :D Thanks a lot mate, very kind indeed.
@@AutoShenanigans are you doing a,
"Dirty Secrets of the Motorway,
Johnny Pisshands, Christmas Special",
in June ???????????????????????
as THAT is the sort of high brow, vulgar, insanity,
I expect, from your bespoke You Tube channel.
Your car at the start monologue is in need of some work Jon.
It could do with a respray
Bit of WD40 and some flex tape and it'll be good to go 👌
It will buff out, be fine!!
Rotate the tyres and change the spark plugs, and it'll be a guid 'un
I've taxed worse
Travelled that today.... Chilled at Skelton Lake services. M5,M6,M62,M57,M62,M60,M1 and A1M all done in a day!!
Your sense of humour and comedy really makes these videos !
Can we all just appreciate that Jon just doesn’t drive around the country on our road network, but spends time researching all these interesting facts and figures. I doff my cap to him.
Thanks mate!
The Secrets Of Motorways is always worth watching for sure.
By uncovering the secrets of our motorway network, you are shedding light on a part of our infrastructure that we often take for granted. Best of luck with your project!
[credit comment to Ernest Marples £££££]
This series makes me wonder to myself, in my head, “why the planning and implantation of roads takes so long in this country” and now I realise I have a problem that can only be shared with my fellow enthusiasts of Secrets of the Motorway
I hear you, brother. You're in fine company here! 😎
To be fair, you think the planning and implementation of roads takes a long time, my understanding is that its even longer for railways.
Something along the lines of you can build a motorway anywhere, but you have to ensure the soil beneath a new railway is actually suitable...
To be clear, I'm sure they do check that the soil is good beneath a road, but my understanding is that thar isn't vital to the road getting approval.
With respect, it sounds to me (a "Yank") maybe each segment of motorway crosses local planning groups, all of which have virtual veto power. In California USA the State government has had the power of imminent domain, and "buys" land to build and enlarge roads. Locals can whine but the State can grade and pave, often with Federal dollars.
Would've been nice to mention that the abandoned section of A656 at the end is actually on the course of an old Roman road - the original inter-city highway displaced after nearly 2,000 years by its modern equivalent.
The ridge running from Castleford to the ‘Great north road’.
Most of it is still in use
There's a thought for when the motorways run out. Discovering remnant ancient roads or routes and probing their secrets.
During construction of a housing development on the fringes of Garforth closest to J47 of the M1 they found evidence of an old Roman settlement and more recently whilst undertaking archaeological surveys on the site of a proposed industrial estate beside this junction they found Roman and Anglo Saxon graves which is one of the first times in the country that they have found humans from both backgrounds buried alongside each other. Apparently they were buried in different orientations and one of the bodies was found in a lead coffin
On absolutely fine form this week.
'realised I could milk another episode out of it' 😂
And I don't think there's a better explanation of the Shard out there. Bravo!
Or the dig at redoing junctions V NHS funding ( see switch island Merseyside M57/58 25million X 3 times re-done )
Haha, brilliant! Love the Emerdale reference at the end 😂😅🤣 In truth I think that far fetched soap operas about unbelievably accident prone small communities have far more basis for plausibility than the stranger-than-fiction self serving nonsense surrounding our road building 🙄
Love that old steam engine house. Those old Newcomen machines must have been awe inspiring to the simple folk of the time who were still accustomed to eating mud for breakfast and supper, travelling everywhere by lame donkey and worked 27 hours a day to live in a hut made of nothing more than sheep carcasses and leftovers from breakfast. Probably 🤔
Always a shame to see old industrial sites not repurposed where nature has struggled to readdress the balance, but in time I am sure it will revert. They probably had a ‘repurposing’ clause in the contract. Which got cancelled…🤷🏻♂️
Cheers John, fantastic fun as ever 🥂🍀😜🌞
Another great and informative video Jon and loving the Emmerdale music at the end....
I'd love a video on whoever designed the barriers on the bridges. I've got strong memories of the ones over the M62 looking like the ones from today's video. Boring I know, but they look made for purpose and pretty standardised too.
I'm also a massive fan of the silent protest in the way that some shots are filmed in utter shithole locations. It's only when you start to work in infrastructure that you realise how much litter, flytipping and all-round arseholery goes on in the UK.
Keep up the great work!
There were 4 optional routes to link the M1 Kirkhamgate and A1 in Yorkshire. The purple and blue routes were strongly objected to by the residents of Arthington in the Wharfe valley and would have used a possible corridor between Leeds and Bradford. This left the red and brown routes that would go through 'cheaper' areas to the south and east of Leeds. I can't remember where the exact joining points were to be but I believe it was the red route that won. The A1 through Yorkshire was then progressively upgraded past Wetherby ending today as a 3+3 lane motorway.
Couple of extra tit bits of local info...
The original Emley moor mast fell due to the weight of ice built up on the supporting cables, and not due to high winds. This fell down without causing any injuries, despite falling through the roof of the nearby chapel which was occupied at the time. Interestingly (or not) part of the old tower was subsequently repurposed as the control tower at Huddersfield rowing club... In Holmfirth.
With respect to the last cancellation of the Flockton M1 / M62 link road, the final nail in the coffin for that was the "successful" 'Sink the Link" campaign which encouraged local residents to petition against the proposed road... Due to the noise of vehicles using it would have on nearby residents of Flockton....
...so instead that traffic continues to use the A road through Flockton, causing frequent accidents and eventually leading to installation of single flow traffic lights in a narrow section due to the inability of HGVs to pass each other... Not sure that was the cleverest move ever...🤔
I have to agree, driving through Flockton is not the safest of joinreys!
As a resident of Flockton, i would’ve preferred a motorway or bypass
I don’t know what it is but I am against it!😂
Blimey Jon my memory is going. I saw that tthis was part 2 and immediately thought, "wait what? I'm sure you didn't do the M1 last week..." and then you reminded me of something I had forgotten, which I am now going back to re-watch.
Those cable cars were also used to carry Churchill tanks manufactured at Newton & Chanbers during the war, also the area round J36 was used extensively in Ken Loach's film Kes.
Its a shame that the Churchill tank disappeared that was on display at Thorncliffe.
I have childhood memories of travelling the last section in the nineties before it opened. My dad worked for construction company at the time and took me to work on a Saturday and we traveled on part of the motorway before it had opened to the public. Remember him teaching me about road camber and about rumble strips by letting go of the steering wheel and explaining why they exist.
Funny thing about the M1-A1 link road that although you have to leave the M1 to stay on the M1 at Junction 43, when you get past Junction 47 you stay on the M1 to join the A1(M) and when you're coming south, you have to leave the A1(M) to stay on the A1(M) because if you stay on the A1(M) you actually join the M1.
Have you ever thought of covering how Motorway Services have changed since opening.
I can recall how Knutsford and Charnock Richard have changed from table service restaurant to fast food.
The famed Forton services with its high level restaurant, again now closed.
There are many classic interior shots and outdoor photos to fit the timeline from opening to today.
Nice to see the mention of Emley Moor. Ice on the cable stays was the root cause of the Emley Moor tv mast collapse in 1969. If you look at the mast as half of a vertical suspension bridge, ice build-up stretched the cable stays allowing the wind to then twist the mast ultimately causing its demise. One of the flaying stays (cables several inches in diameter) cut the chapel over the road clean in half. Belmont has since had many tons of chain hung inside to dampen this twisting. The total height of Emley Moor tower was in fact reduced due to antenna redesign caused by Ofcom mandated frequency changes.
You're pretty much bang on with the comments on the Shard.
I spent a year working there in its construction.
Good point about redoing roads and junctions affording the NHS. A current example of this is the M4 M5 interchange which is being dug up again this year!
Again, excellent with some justified rants about the competency of this country’s successive governments!
Our Sunday dose of A S S 👍🏼
I like the lofthouse interchange when leaving the M1 S for the 62. It reminds me of The Nemesis at Alton towers 🤷🏽😂.
That’s John for warming our hearts with more FACTS 👍🏼
We need that motorway from Manchester to Sheffield now. You have traffic from Liverpool, Manchestrer, Bradford and Leeds, all using the same single motorway to get to Sheffield.
This series is obviously influenced by Geoff Marshalls Secrets of the Underground (including a nod or two to Geoff in the past). One thing is for sure though, Johns sense of humour shines through much more. Gotta love it, keep it up.
John its good see you have finally made it up my neck of the woods here in Wakefield, if I had known you could have popped in for a cup coffee!. You might not be aware that when the M1 extension to the A1 was built it was closed again for some parts of it had to be resurfaced due the noise levels coming from the concrete road surface. Local residents complained and the surface was replaced.
That concrete section is a *****! What?
John love the videos and your commentary.......its a refreshing change to hear common sense being spoken and the info on the motorways is really interesting.
You are spot on re your comment about doing the junction 3 times but we cant afford the NHS.
Keep up the great videos........quality work.
I don't even own a car and probably never will but I can't stop watching these episodes.
Tell you what else is wicked, sweet, awesome; watching the subscribers tick up ever closer to that 100K target.
Well done John and team for continuing to put out such quality content, I'm enjoying the little studio based uploads too.
A bit of the original Emley Moor mast is now used as a part of a building at a sailing club at Hade Edge near Holmfirth.
As with railways, all efforts to get good connections in Notts, Derbyshire and Sth, Yorkshire across the Pennines to Manchester end up at 'nowt'
Thanks for the Durkar reference, and yes we say the same thing.
Thanks John, appreciate the dry humour as I'm sure many others do while learning how our Motorways accidentally happened
Terrific video John,liking your commentary is becoming more brutally honest with each new episode
4:42 - how did that tyre get on to that lamp post? You find the most interesting places to do your voiceovers and the background details are amazing. The Newcomen tower, the furnace, a pedestrian tunnel under the motorway. We mere drivers never see these details, except on your videos. Love it.
Another fantastic video! So much information, I live a few miles from Jnc 37 and had no idea there were so many points of interest nearby. Cheers!!
The link between the M25 from the M4 to the M1 south is always fun !! m25 then via Watford , via crazy roundabouts that force you to back into Watford, then the m1 ... link road from the m25 direct to the m1 , thats what they need... lol
A Team America reference on a video about the M1? Not what I expected but I'm all for it.
Thanks for interesting info I didn’t know about a stretch of motorway I use regularly. Incidentally the current roadworks on the M62 around the Lofthouse interchange with the M1 sometimes makes it quicker to use the M621 as a link road.
It's a continuing story of errors and messed up management . Still happening today in some towns and city's. All the best John and your team. Bob
Great video John.
Junction 45, which took forever to open was used for filming of a police car crash scene on Emmerdale prior to it opening.
The bumpy nature of the M1 south of Garforth j46 (A63 Colton junction) is due to subsidence from the old mine tunnels.
Finally, why on earth did they not create a free-flowing slip road to travel south bound onto the A1 from the north bound M1 and vica-versa from North bound A1M to south bound M1. Traffic has to travel through Garforth using j46 or j47 and queues back. NUTS!
Agree with mikeh, this is considerably more entertaining than owt on't telly.
Cheers mate, that's very nice of you and much appreciated.
My guilty pleasure every Sunday (and during the week)
Cheers mate!
always worth a watch love the humour
love it, just think, all these plans, cancelled plans, re-plans, re-plans of cancelled re-plans, keep the consultants and planners in the way they like to live
0:17 - so that's where I left my car.
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Love the final shot placement. Love going up the moors from ilkley.
Spot on point about the wastage of money in this country. Too many levels of authority, too many wages going on non producers out of the public pot and too many final salary pensions for lazy bubble wrapped local government workers and civil servants
Cracking John, cracking, you never fail to educate and entertain in your unique style!
Production is as sublime as the delivery
Thanks, Jon. Getting my "Motorway fix," I am now ready for doing whatever I'll be doing this week. Oh, right: I turn 74 years old! Amazing. Have a great week, yourself. Bye.
Good on you mate and Happy Birthday. A Gentlemen of your vintage must have seen many changes on the roads over the years?
@@AutoShenanigans In the 1950's I still remember construction of the first segment of Interstate 8 through San Diego's Mission Valley. Went from old U.S. 80 2 lane road through farm lands to a limited access freeway (motorway) through hotels & offices. Actually, the worst change are the incompetent and self-centered drivers, now.
Glad to see you've got your hat on in the drone shot, you don't want to catch thee death o'cold 🤣🤣
Since discovering this channel it takes up most of my viewing time. Love it, not sure why..? Carry on!
Nice one, thanks for that, appreciate it!
I’ve never understood our love with roundabouts on motorway junctions, free flowing junctions in the majority of cases is always the answer
I always feel exhausted listening to John as he speaks so fast to cram as much info into a 10 minute piece! Informative as ever!
Great episode, glad it wasn't over planned and canceled. Bloody good show!
John i released on the A27 at CrossBush roundabout and it is an abandoned dual carriageway
Lovely to see. Shame you missed out the ridiculous routing of the J46 sliproads
J46 wasn't originally so ridiculous, they got changed a fair while ago (10 years?) but I'm not sure why - It could be the new access roads to the business park to the west of the motorway. You can see ghost slip roads just to the southwest of where the A6120 dumbell roundabout goes under the M1
Great vlog, very informative. I liked the info about the mines. My Dad’s company worked with lots of coal mines, designing conveyor belts in the UK and overseas.
These videos are cool can't stop watching them 👍👍
As always, absolutely bloody fantastic !
Funny, interesting and informative. What more could you ask for?
4:48 Just to the left of the superimposed arrow is an area known as the Fairy Fields. It was here that teenage friends and I built a dugout, and the construction of the M1 provided many materials and supplies for our den. The M1 in those days went on into Leeds. My memory is that the stretch through Hunslet Carr was built at the same time as the stretch between Belle Isle (named after the bell-pit mines of the area) and Robin Hood/Rothwell (Hi to AdventureMe!). I can't remember a termination at Stourton. Are there are any other Leeds old gits out there who could clarify?
Hi to you too!
With the Shard go to the bar that is two floors below the exceedingly expensive viewing area, it’s free (although drinks are not what you’d call spoons prices) and you get the same view. Just make sure you look like you know where you’re going when you enter the building so Security don’t pounce and kick you out….
My old stomping grounds. My sister lives near Rothwell. We grew up at Garforth. The link road was great for cycling and running before it opened, many times I rode from Aberford to Colton and back along the new road.
M62/M1 interchange - a joy! Used it regularly back in the early 00’s when working temporarily in Leeds when courting the now Mrs Ulazygit … she lived in Pollington and I was a specialist Property Strategist for a blue chip company, hence my extensive access to many UK motorways … those were the days!
Another awesome episode John, I loved the closing shot on Ilkley Moor.
Always look forward to a new episode - cheers me up no end plus a bit of driving nostalgia thrown in for good measure 😊
Thanks John I have walked in those woods near birdwell and always wondered what the structure was.
Nothing seems more frustrating, than there being roadworks on a Motorway for a couple if years... the seemingly not that long after the works have finished they are back doing more work on the same section!
Another excellent insight, again the amount of miles I'd travelled along these sections of motorway and never a thought for its history! I remember some of the new sections being built. Cheers Jon 👍
7m40s Whilst trying to process what I've just learnt in this video, that looks like an Easter Island stone to your left. Luckily it's content and blind, yet not hungry. Enjoy your coffee, doughnut, beer, litre of 4 star or whatever it is you get up to this week for £5's
Cheers, it's Steve in CAPITALS LETTERS :-)
Thanks a lot mate. I look forward to a nice cup of 4 star. " Steve in CAPITALS LETTERS" got it.
Thanks John another very interesting vlog keep up the great work
Ta muchly, quite satisfactory to have an M1 that finally joins up with the A1.
Can we have a video on the A1(M) please. Still antsy that Geoff and Jay's big trip up the A1 clagged out when they got to the M25 instead of Scotland. Bet there are a lot of secrets they missed.
A1M... yes indeed... th-cam.com/video/cLfNTDD3aDw/w-d-xo.html :D
@@AutoShenanigans 😃wow, just like that, there it is, starting right where Geoff & Jay went to sleep! And I thought you were going to going to say anything (M) didn’t qualify!
Terrific and superbly presented episode, helped by the fact that you've now covered our local stretch of the M1.
Cor, not heard that version of the Emmerdalé theme for a _long_ time. Brings back memories!
It’s been a good few years since I used the M1/A1 junction, but I remember that it had signs warning of a “wide hard shoulder”. I don’t know why this was something that drivers needed to be warned about, but warned about it they were.
Looking at Google Earth, they no longer seem to be there, which saddens me for some reason.
Excellent outro music for this episode 😉 another great episode! 👍
6:12 smaller gauge for pit tubs / materials / dirt such like
Cool video, glad you finally got around to part 2!
I used to live next to the M1 near to the Rothwell interchange.
That's as exciting as this post gets.
I continue to use the M1 regularly and the bit where you have to come off to go back on is a real pain. Satnavs just can't cope with the confusion. 😂
I lived in the area when the " new" M1 was under consultation and there were concerns that Temple Newsam house would be affected by the initial works and the traffic vibrations afterwards. Went ahead eventually.
Great video again. Everyone of these videos highlights each council takes great pleasure in wasting our money and time.
As always excellent research and presentation.
it's funny, if i drop my unused stuff it's called littering or fly tipping, but the government can just leave a road unused and it's acceptable
@3:19 There looks to be a mast now that's almost as tall as the tower.
Brilliant vid as always. Thank you 👍
Two words - Risk Assessment. If they'd ever used that, most of these ghost slip roads and ill-conceived motorways wouldn't exist, let alone some of the behemoth junctions.
On the other hand, I'd have far less enjoyment in my weekend because you'd not be in it Jon. Keep up the good work!!
3:20 Well said that man. I'd paid £30 to avoid that view.
Fantastic episode
Thank you
Nice one, thanks for watching!
I have no interest in motorways I cannot drive. I still f****** love your videos
3:30 it was an ice storm more than just high winds, the cables snapped cause of the weight of the ice.
Thanks mate. Watching this on a Monday as I spent the weekend getting absolutely twatted. Great video as ever.
haha, cheers mate.
Another interesting video, and great presentation. Thanks Bob
These videos are my Sunday highlight! Love what you do and your humour with it. Excellent and informative as always fella!
You're SO right about our ability to waste money in this country.
But if you've ever worked in the NHS, you'd know that's exactly where the most profligate waste happens.
Like £280,000 for new fire doors in an old hospital- at the same as the new, replacement hospital down the road was less than a year away from being finished.
It's across the entire public sector unfortunately not just the NHS. There is a general attitude of "it's not my money" when making decisions leading to huge waste and many failed projects.
@@Dan-Athema You're right, of course. But it's not only the "not my money" attitude- it's also downright stupidity. How could a 22 year-old, fresh out of university with a 2-2 in women's studies, possibly know how much a pair of fire doors is supposed to cost??
don't forget rainbow painting
Nice to see Barnsley or part of Barnsley on secrets of the motorway. Been hoping to see my home town for sometime.
See you ended this vlog near the top of Ilkley’s Cow and Calf John. So interesting is this series.
Yes indeed and the worst wind ever... the drone really struggled :D