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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ธ.ค. 2020
- There are lots of disused and never-used roads and bridges in the world. But the Road to Nowhere in Yate, in south-west England, does still sometimes have traffic driving on it. And crashing on it.
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This feels like the sort of video I'd have made years ago: just me and a GoPro in a weird bit of infrastructure. Normally at this point I'd thank all the folks I worked with, but today, it's just me. So, uh, thank you, me.
Hi tom
2 months ago wtf
good job Tom, keep it up
Thanks scott
How tf did you post this two months ago?
Several things have been filmed here, including Broadchurch, Casualty, and, even a Tom Scott video.
Lmfa0 nice
lmao
Well, where _hasn't_ Tom Scott filmed a video?
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Standard computation time exceeded... Try again with Pro computation time
No way! A tom Scott video was shot here..that's crazy...I've gotta visit that place as soon as possible.
"most of us dont have that abandoned project sitting on full permanent display to the world"
...dont remind me of my github, please =(
Feel you bro. 😅
I mean, on the entirety of Github there are only two kinds of project: work in progress and abandoned.
Laughed way harder than I should have xD
This comment hit me deep. I was just planning to commit another project..
Then finish your GitHub
I live 40 minutes from here, and I can safely say that EVERY road in Yate is a road to nowhere.
t h i s
slander. watch your mouth son
When you think about it, building roads needs so much different stuff the price of some stuff is always going to go up before you get where you wanted to get.
All roads lead to Rome, except in Yate
Depending on what exact location in Yate you're talking about, AND what time of day you set off, that 40 minutes could be anywhere between 35 and 5 miles travelled. :D
I could get from the centre of Yate to the centre of Bristol in thirty five minutes....... On a Sunday morning at 6am, But the same trip at 8pm on a week day could take an hour and a half.
Anyway, "EVERY road in Yate is a road to nowhere"???? I think you're mistaken. Only a few roads go in Yate lead to Swindon. :D
"This is something a younger me would've done"
Tom, we all know you found the fountain of youth and don't age anymore. Don't kid yourself
The fountain of youth is hidden underground in MIT's basement.
the fountain of youth is at the end of the road to nowhere
Don't kid
@Clu Rosencrans Nice catch
I genuinely got a fright when you said you haven't researched it through and the credits started rolling. Don't do me like that
Hahaha 😂
It's a very clever nod to the video's intro, that was great.
Oh I just laughed, I woulda been fine with the vid ending there, glad it didn't though :D
That bit was really funny 😁
Xd
"Going for a walk with Tom Scott" is my favorite video genre.
Sub 1k view club
Seconded
Agreed. Tied with "a place called tom and asked him to try their cool thing and then he's excited like a 10 year old the whole time"
Same for me
Would love to have a series based on it
this is the sort of thing i tell my teacher when giving up on a project: "yea you know the price of steel went up and i never got to finish it"
Could say increasing cost of pencils, from $0.10 to $0.11 each, made completing the project economically infeasible.
Tell them you've made plans to review the economics of the project after the price of pencils comes down to $0.10 again, or a better alternative becomes financially feasible. Estimated 5-10 year review period.
Once again, Tom has found an excuse to walk in front of a difficult-to-compress background
"I gave up on researching this project halfway through."
Well-played, Tom, almost got me there.
Bro I legit went down to the comments cause I thought it ended lmao
I am shocked how okay I was with this explanation. Glad it was a joke tho.
@@TKR001 a very meta joke
Sounds like the council did too.
The really funny part to me was the fact that the video literally starts with talking about abondoning projects halfway through, so my brain took it as a 'I purposefully didn't finish this video about a road that wasn't finished as a joke'. Which, if that had been it, that would've been such a power move.
At the beginning of the video I was like "Wait, isn't that the road to nowhere?" Guess my town does have a purpose.
yate gang
@@morgaaaaaa same!
Can you get to this road on bicycle??
@@charliegrazebrook1015 Yes you can; you can even cycle the road, there's a bike entrance on the left-hand side of the gate.
To promote Talking Heads?
I actually live just a five minute walk away from the Road to Nowhere. I already knew about the history of the road and always thought it would be an interesting topic for Tom to cover.
Casualty used to film here quite often back when the show was produced in Bristol, but they stopped doing so when they moved to Cardiff in 2011. They came back in 2018 to film the scene with the tanker explosion; I remember we were sent letters warning us about it a week in advance.
"I gave up researching this halfway through"
I was genuinely flabbergasted.
We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been, quite possibly, bamboozled.
Hook, line and sinker!
i was so disappointed ahahhahahaha
They gave up on the road, so why not give up on researching it?
I was ready to close the video
Tom: *wandering down disused road*
Tom 5 seconds later: *gets run over by the BBC*
'Should've payed your TV license'
@@CentreMetre what does that have to do with TV?
@@David_Box are you not from the UK? UK citizens have to pay a yearly fee to receive the BBC.
Being run over reminds me of another Tom
@@Salmagundiii Isn't that prostitution?
"The Never-Used Road Where the BBC Crash Cars"...
*an orangutan, a hamster, and a cocker spaniel blowing down the road to the Top Gear theme song*
@@SwitchTvAr An orangutan drives a car! A cocker spaniel drives a car! A hamster... also drives a car. This show has really been going downhill...
Tom, this "Road to Nowhere" reminds me of the "City" of Craigavon in Northern Ireland. It was planned in 1967 as a "new city", but was controversial from the start. Beset by various difficulties (compounded by the Troubles in Northern Ireland), the project was abandoned in 1973. Today, Craigavon consists of a Shopping Centre, Hospital, council and private housing, some shops and a courthouse all surrounded by farmland but it's also FULL of roads that don't actually lead anywhere, but that probably would have led somewhere had the project been completed.
I cant believe the Legend that is Tom Scott, just trolled everyone with i gave up researching half way through.... well played sir.
I totally bought it.
I was halfway through reading this comment when it happened :)
Giving up on research for a video about a project that was given up, no less.
I laughed out loud🤣🤣
I looked at the seek bar and thought, nah there's more to come!
What we didn't know was that the real road that leads to nowhere was the friends we made along the way
I don't have friends, so...
So true in the saddest way.
Surface wholesome lowkey sad.
-jacksfilms
cars we crashed along the way*
Same thing happened in Stockton-on-Tees, though we don’t have BBC filming crews using it. Instead, we have a few guys who have donkeys free to roam, it’s all very northern.
I've lived in yate for a number of years now and regularly walk my dog down the road, my daughters also learnt to ride bikes there. Many of us don't want the road completed as its more valuable to the town and its residents as an unfinished project.
Many thanks for covering it Tom.
Seeing where the road would've gone is so unsatisfying, it would connect everything so neatly
It's unfortunate
Its very unfortunate
It's very very very unfortunate
It's very, very, very, very unfortunate.
It's very, very, very, very, very unfortunate.
It wouldn't be a Tom Scott video without his own pinned comment being already couple of months old at the time of publishing
Why? and How?
@@nathancapslock3630 this video was (probably) unlisted
@@nathancapslock3630 that’s how TH-camrs upload videos. Put it in unlisted for a while, give it to friends/patreons then make it public
"I don't actually know, I gave up on researching it halfway through."
Me: Understandable have a nice day
Google Maps has just named this as "Road to Nowhere"
that’s it’s name, everyone calls it this
Still in a better state than the road in front of my house.
Lmao
Heavy vehicles wear roads out. With no traffic on, that stretch'll last for ages
@@DouglasCarnall In mumbai, where i live, you dont even need a bicycle to make pot holes. A glass of water is enough. its so bad.
Because nobody has used it
@@thelivingdodo2 ^
"i don't know i gave up halfway" sounds so convincing that the video probably could've ended there and it would've been absolutely funny to watch and hear.
and completely understandable given how crazy such road plannings and politics can get
Me: *Sees title* I wonder if it's that road in Yate.
Tom: This is the road to nowhere, in Yate.
Yate, does that stand for "Yet Another Tarmac Expense?"
this is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about yate
@@morgaaaaaa omg why is that so truee
Hey do you know what STFU stands for too?
@@jahcat6685 offs nrn so fo ok
At this point I’m almost expecting to find Tom Scott outside my house to tell me about it
"The Incredible House Where Nothing Ever Gets Done", or something like that
1:58 One of the biggest plot twists ever
Pandu yaha bhi mujhse pehle ...yaar tu sota nhi hai kya??
@@ankurparajuli386 Dfij cimj vij vev dva fej dnjicde, erv vier ef jine Tom Scott.
The 20-second outro should've been 75 seconds longer, so that 2:00 is truly the "halfway through".
Immediately recognised this stretch of road in the doctor who new year's special :'D
Same haha
You made me look in the ep, and it is very recognisible:-) I didn't know about Road to Nowhere when I watched it before. Thanks for heads up!
This Video is probably the most Tom Scottish we have ever seen. The awkward walking to the camera, the cut off and bad joke and the 2 month old comment. Please, don't ever change.
Tom: "Let's go for a walk"
Me: "I mean I need the exercise anyways..."
Wait, if this road was never used (other than as a set), does that make this the safest road in GB?
It has a Very high accident rate, just look at all the reports on TV, crashes vs traffic volume, we need to do something to make it safer!!☺.
@@CrusaderSports250 That would be easy...
Just stop filming Casualty there...
@@CrusaderSports250 Stick some speed cameras on it, they make roads safer, apparently.
@@NorthernMonkeeUK they are not speed cameras, they are safety cameras, that's why they make things safer☺☺.
We have one of those in germany, too. Except ours has a monorail going across it. I use that monorail regularly. At the end of the road there is still abandoned construction equipment and people use the road as an unofficial parking lot. I have no idea why it was abandoned, though. Look up Dortmund Universitätsstraße
0:17 As opposed to The Rare Yate
xD
The Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Mega, and Legendary Yates.
Yate-EX, Yate-GX
I prefer my Yate medium rare.
I live twenty minutes away from Yate and I can confirm that there are multiple common Yates yet I've never seen a rare Yate. Probably because its rare
"yate in south west england"
so that's why jay foreman didn't make a video on this
Nice cross-reference
because its easy to pronounce you mean?
@@joeyhardin5903 Perhaps because it's a bit far from London? But that's not me saying Jay hasn't yet come here.
I literally came from that video to this one
Funny, I have that video recommended next to this one right now
I saw this on my feed and thought that youtube is recommending me 5 year old Tom Scott videos again
Wheey my home town! I have been watching you for years and never even thought that this old bit of unused road would be worth a talk
I saw someone recording there when i was walking my dog, didnt realise it was you! Should have come over... regrets
Dang, imagine missing meeting Tom ;-;
The song “Road to Nowhere” by the Talking Heads would be nice to play while waking down this road
ironically a "talking-head video" format is one where the main action involves someone just talking to the camera. like tom is although i suppose you could call it walking head in Tom's case.
I thought the same thing
Tom Scott and David Byrne collab soon???
Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a good choice as well
David Byrne wants to know your location
I have a weird obsession with transport infrastructure, abandoned roads/railways, Urban planning and the logistics of TV/Film production on busy roads. This is one of the best videos on youtube! haha!
This is the town I'm from! Your info is probably more accurate, but the local legend is that the reason the road isn't completed is because they didn't get permission to connect the road before they started building. So they abandoned the project and all the leftover materials are buried on the common somewhere.
Also fun fact, when they did that explosion for filming you could hear it across the whole town!
"I gave up on this project half-way through"
I see what you did there 😏 😏
OOOOOHHH
Do you.
Midgard Eagle yep
;) ooohh
I just got that
As someone who actually lives in Yate, I can say that this was a great place to film my little film studies projects and probably one of the strangest things I have ever seen as if Yate wasn't strange enough.
Before moving to Yate 10 years ago, I researched the area, found out about the road to nowhere but found The Common also had the name The German Fields in the past. Lovely video!
I really love your videos Tom, I just wish some of them were longer. You could go really go into amazing details on a video like this. Keep up the great work.
We have SO MANY of those here in Spain, halfway abandoned urban developments I mean, you could reshoot the whole Cobra Alert German TV series with one road per car crash and still have places left to record. Quite amazing when you think about it. What were we thinking.
That "end" was hilarious
This reminds me of the Foreshore Freeway Bridge, also known as Cape Town's Unfinished Bridge. Planned in the 60s, constructed in the 70s it was meant to alleviate traffic flowing into the city... But budget constraints broke the bank and it was never finished. Today finishing it would be difficult because there is a hotel, a Salvation Army building and several offices in the way. It's now used for any major highway chase scene and epic crash in films.
Here in Utah, USA we had a section of Interstate 15 that wasn't completed for years. North and South of it was the normal two lanes each way. For about five miles or so all the traffic was funneled into this two-lane road. It was called the "Death Strip" for good reason. Dozens of people died there until the government deigned to complete it.
"We're on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin' that ride to nowhere
We'll take that ride"
Talking heads
Hope they were singing about this road
Feeling OK this morning
And you know
We’re on a road to Paradise
Here we go, here we go…
Thank you for this comment
69th like
The perfect opportunity to play ‘road to nowhere’ has unfortunately been missed
probably would have resulted in an unwanted copyright claim. Better to do something like that off camera
@@MercenaryPen And Tom, having done a whole-ass 45 minute vid on how messed up the copyright system on TH-cam is, would be the last person to do this.
That's okay, my imagination did not miss this opportunity, that song was playing loudly in my mind the entire video.
*Me clicks on Tom Scott's YT channel*
"I wonder if I want to re-watch an old-"
*uploaded 2 hours ago*
"Or that, that works too"
I watched this road being built from my bedroom window, in 1973, by Gloucestersire county council. The town then became part of the newly formed Avon county council in 1974. Avon decided that the road had been built across common land without proper planning consent. The project was abandoned. As a teenager it became a great place for racing bicycles. we even built a land yacht to sail up and down. It has become an asset for the local community and wild life. I hope we can be preserve it just as it is.
Oh my lord I go there to walk the dogs. They used to film casualty as well. Can't believe my home town is in one of Tom's video's
that road is a metaphor for my hopes and ambitions
Lucky you, mine is a mountain with a large boulder.
In that it's used for stunts with crashes and explosions
In that you bump into a railway line now and again?
Love your videos. Keep up the great work! Thank you Tom!
This reminded me a little bit of the former TRL facility in Crowthorne that's now a woodland walk and residential area, but still has the huge, 155mph-safe banked corner intact at the far end.
“Let’s go for a walk on the Road to Nowhere.” has never sounded more appealing.
I live in Yate, its a weird road ngl. Was meant to be a link road but council gave up halfway through construction
If this is Tom's last video of 2020, it will be quite appropriate.
@@mavoc3094 ooooh never even thought of that
@@bongocat5223 Aaaahh I’m totally gonna move to England. XD
There are a lot of disused places like this in the UK. Mostly bunkers and pill boxes left over from WW2, but many many cool places. Guess that's what happens when you cram so many people into such a small country, you find so many brown sites.
Englishman walking down a road with a GoPro is my favorite genre of TH-cam video
I like how on Google Maps it's labelled "Road to Nowhere"
I like how your videos straight down to the information, not much blah blah fillings. Keep up your good work.
I live near Yate & use that roundabout to get into the town centre. I can always remember the excitement of seeing the casualty sets on the road to nowhere. Unfortunately they don’t use it as much as they did since production of casualty moved from Bristol to Cardiff.
Speaking of roads to nowhere, you would love Montréal and the abandoned Mirabel Project! Huge cloverleafs and chunks of uncompleted highways (13, 15, and 19), with its uncompleted high speed train to downtown and the international airport itself, at the time the biggest airport in the entire world
"The sort of thing I'd expect younger me to have filmed five years ago"
Guess it's still right up your street, though
Nowhere is right up his street.
I really appreciate the 4k quality, despite the webencoding issues. Thank you for the extra effort you put in every single video, not only the resolution.
It's impressive that the Casualty scene is filmed in such an open location yet looked so much like the center of a city.
I actually worked on the big casualty explosion. I did an apprenticeship in SFX and worked a lot with casualty. Was good fun rigging it up to blow etc. Even cooler seeing this on a Tom Scott video!
Curious that it remains so clear - they must maintain it as if it was used. Old roads which have been closed (typically because they've been bypassed) tend to grow over very quickly.
I always learn so much Tom, about stuff. Thanks.
There's a saying we folks have in Yate that goes: Y8S GR8 M8.
y8 gang
Surprised you haven’t done a video about the 400m motorway, the M96, it’s only up the road from Yate
There's also a closed motorway-looking road in the Olympic Park next to the Velodrome which is occasionally used for filming, particularly this summer when loads of drama productions seemed to be rushing back into production and doing as much of their filming in London as possible. There was a big car crash scene for a new Sky One ambulance comedy drama being filmed a few months ago.
A new Tom Scott video, this day can't get any better!
There are loads of roads like this in Spain in unfinished urbanisations, some of which you can drive down.
why would you want to drive down those roads?
you'll just have to turn back at some point.
I remember visiting Barcelona and taking a bike tour of the surrounding hills, and they trained us on the bikes on a whole complex of abandoned roads that were meant to service a load of Russian casinos that just never got built. Kinda eerie seeing all these roads and just nothing at the end of them
Were they built before the late 2000s Great Recession?
@@ThePursuitWOD do what?
@@user-je1cu2lt5d I think they are amazed that Hebrew is written from right to left so your name appears right to left when you reply and this appears aligned to the right as I write this because the internet most of the time doesn't know how to deal with different directions scripts a the same time.
I actually got a fright at the end when you were "driving on the right side of the road", but then crossed over to what, for you, was the 'right' side of the road. 😂😂😂
What's so epic about these is they take you to any and all parts of the world on the best adventure vacations in the world. Bon voyage! 👍👍
i love this guy, every video is so unique but so similar at the same time. LOVE IT
The ""I gave up on researching this project halfway through"-joke was brilliant
0:45 That’s a very nice animation 👍🏼
In Indiana County, Pennsylvania, there was a "bridge to nowhere;" a similar situation where a state highway project was partially completed only to see funding for it dry up. Over three decades after the bridge was built, they finally got the combination of political will and engineering skill to connect roads to it.
Thank you Mr. Scott. Your content is interesting, informative and serene. Thank you.
Tom, your videos are great distraction. Great length (below 5 minutes), information and interesting places. I'll watch another. Great content.
Never thought i would see my little town on a video like this.
I think this was where they shot that ridiculous crash scene in Emmerdale a few years ago where James was pushed off a bridge (looked fairly temporary) and about 5 other high-profile characters crash into him in separate incidents. The amount of fog helped shroud where they actually were.
Now for the rest of the day I'll have a Talking Heads song stuck in my head.
Nothing brings me comfort quite like a Tom Scott video.
I lived very close to that roundabout and I remember when it was built!
I live around the corner from this... gutted I missed him, I walk the dogs here!
felt the same about the old Sarum ep. id love to meet him.
This is my local running route! Great to see some Yate love!
Love to see it!
I really want to have a day where I listen to Tom's knowledge and stories while walking to anywhere. Sounds simple, but totally fun.
322 views 327 likes, boy some people really do like Tom.
"Oh whoops, sorry just poured thousands of dollars of our budget because of a railroad that we would have seen if we actually walked a little big closer"
*Thousands of pounds. Remember, this is the UK.
@@theobuniel9643 Damn that's a heavy bag of Benjamins
More that the proposed railway bridge became untenable
@@boringperson-zb8vy no it's a bag of... Elgars? or were they replaced cause they are all counterfeit?
What are you doing here mr lava caster?
Cheers Tom, needed this right now
respect to tom scott for travelling all around the world for these 2 minute videos
Am I the only one hearing Talking Heads
We’re on the road to nowhere…
well now I am... thanks... I guess
I’ve watched enough casualty episode to recognise that as the road of doom!
I've seen it being filmed a dozen times up until they moved production over to Wales. twice in St Annes park, once when the Boardmills was still standing but abandoned and again years later after they leveled it and built a new trading estate. several times whilst i was in Brunel tech college because the set for the front of casualty was in the grounds and they film during the day. and several times they used the road i worked on in Avonmouth. starting to think they were stalking me now.
As someone who grew up just a few miles away, I never even knew about the road. Thank you for adding a little bit to my childhood!
On Tom’s two-month-old comment: although we are well aware of Tom’s time travelling abilities, I doubt he’s be so careless as to make them public here. It’s a scheduled post, that’s why his comment is two months old.
Makes you think what other videos already have been scheduled