Secrets of The Motorway - M67

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  • @JayForeman
    @JayForeman ปีที่แล้ว +258

    Motorway facts ***AND*** nostalgic 90s TV theme tunes and idents?! I bloody love this channel!!

    • @lickyagyalcuz
      @lickyagyalcuz ปีที่แล้ว +30

      What we really need is a Jay and John crossover.

    • @sedontane
      @sedontane ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@lickyagyalcuz the motorways song would be far less interesting than the counties one I fear!

    • @RustyPetterson
      @RustyPetterson ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lickyagyalcuz What we need is a singalong! I'm sure our John would love that ahahaha.

    • @MaverickRenegade
      @MaverickRenegade ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like a trip down memory lane. I often find myself looking for theme tunes for British tv shows from the 80s and 90s as it bugs me when I can’t exactly place the time.

    • @nathanirlam3159
      @nathanirlam3159 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      JAY MY BLOODY KING!!

  • @MrFoxCallum
    @MrFoxCallum ปีที่แล้ว +323

    I like how John just keeps randomly changing location but keeps the flow of his monologue.

    • @acciid
      @acciid ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It reminds me of "brilliant" from the Fast Show.
      Aren't motorways brilliant?.......

    • @jacobwhite1360
      @jacobwhite1360 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Honestly, auto shenanigans is one of the best put together channels on TH-cam in my opinion. So simple yet so perfect.

    • @lewismassie
      @lewismassie ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's one of my favourite formats and if I ever made something that wasn't just a talking head video I would do it as well

    • @jonathanw844
      @jonathanw844 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He’s a pro!

    • @jenniferfox301
      @jenniferfox301 ปีที่แล้ว

      Script, maybe... why not?
      This one is local to me as Mottram Junction roundabout is just up the road. Shame I can no longer drive 😢

  • @JamesThew
    @JamesThew ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Anyone who does the Sheffield to Manchester route regularly knows how needed it is!

    • @MEANASSJAMSTER
      @MEANASSJAMSTER ปีที่แล้ว

      but they don't care how much of our time gets wasted ...the sooner they are paying for our time the better...

    • @falkerhard
      @falkerhard ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh s#17. I'm doing it tomorrow. Is it really that bad?

    • @MEANASSJAMSTER
      @MEANASSJAMSTER ปีที่แล้ว

      @@falkerhard Sheffield > Halifax > Rochdale > Manchester is a nice route...

  • @noelphilips
    @noelphilips ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The M67 is one of the strangest motorways in the country. The way it ends so shortly drives me up the wall, and the traffic through the rest of the Peak District is horrendous as a result! I wished they'd have connected it through to the M1 as they'd originally planned. Your choices to get from S Yorks to Manchester essentially boil down to sitting in gridlock through tiny villages (which I'm sure would prefer not to have that), or a massive detour via Leeds and the M62. Either way takes well over an hour when a motorway would cut that time in half. Ironically, the congestion and extra mileage of the detour via Leeds probably cause more pollution than the M67 would have!

  • @LuciousDeMorte
    @LuciousDeMorte ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Stars in Their Eyes, what a tune to play out on

    • @sebastianohalloran9093
      @sebastianohalloran9093 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for posting that. We were racking our brains! My partner said it sounded like something connected with Matthew Kelly just as I was about to read out your comment!

    • @kieranbeecroft8414
      @kieranbeecroft8414 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you... been trying to work out what that music was

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This version is by @MatthewAnnissMusic and it's great.

  • @PenryMMJ
    @PenryMMJ ปีที่แล้ว +143

    The main reason why the much needed faster connection between Manchester and Sheffield will never happen... is because it will bring no economic benefit to London.

    • @mrglide7078
      @mrglide7078 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      See also HS2 delays

    • @StrikeEngine
      @StrikeEngine ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nailed it.

    • @adamlee3772
      @adamlee3772 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said.

    • @Richard-io9xe
      @Richard-io9xe ปีที่แล้ว

      Nail on head.

    • @AndyHullMcPenguin
      @AndyHullMcPenguin ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds familiar. If its any consolation, various Westminster governments have been not spending the money on dualling the A9 in Scotland since some time prior to 1977. Oh well, perhaps if I get reincarnated a few dozen times, I might see the work completed. I'm not talking bringing this major Scottish trunk road (the longest road in Scotland) up to motorway standard. Not at all, simply making all 268 miles of it in to a humble dual carriageway. Oh well, at least there were approximately ten fewer people killed on it in the last year, than in previous years.

  • @richardhopwood7343
    @richardhopwood7343 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    You were right the first time, it is pronounced God-ley. This was the first bit of road I ever went "about" 70MPH on a couple of hours after passing my test in the early 90s in my Dad's Ford Granada.

    • @izzieb
      @izzieb ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "About" 70mph. Definitely not over, right? 😉

    • @richardhopwood7343
      @richardhopwood7343 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@izzieb Well officer, there's always a bit off error in the speedos of these older cars 😉

    • @ryanford5387
      @ryanford5387 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ah yes, it's always good fun to drive at _the speed limit_ after you've passed

    • @PineappleSkip
      @PineappleSkip ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So you would have been delighted at the Granada ident at 0:08, hey?

    • @SportyMabamba
      @SportyMabamba ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Can confirm, less than 60 minutes after getting the “pink licence in the post” slip from the examiner I was on a local dual carriageway going _about 70mph_

  • @adecarnally5501
    @adecarnally5501 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Great video as ever!
    Seems to me that the main purpose of the M67 is to make sure there is a continuous supply of vehicles for the permanent queue at Mottram. Keep em' coming Jon!

  • @retroscort2687
    @retroscort2687 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How does you tube know that I would find a video about a short bit of motorway quite interesting? I didn't even know it myself! Subscribed.

  • @opathe2nd973
    @opathe2nd973 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm a Yank and have driven the motorways, but I watch this channel because John is such a delight! And he makes sense so that I can relate to the screwups in the US. Keep up the good job John.

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks mate. You watch Road Man Rob, he's the "guy" for US road stuff.

  • @kenmorris100
    @kenmorris100 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Thanks John
    One consequence of not building the full M67 is the horrendous traffic jams through Mottram beyond the roundabout down the hill to the traffic lights at the Gun Inn where the Woodhead road splits from the A57. You could do a piece on the saga of the Mottram By-Pass over the past 20 years and still awaiting to get spades in the ground.

    • @markbooth1117
      @markbooth1117 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That would be great, I am in Stalybridge and have to go past the Gun Inn most days.

    • @alexdolling
      @alexdolling ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In laws live in Oldham and this nightmare is why it’s easier to go to dovestones instead

    • @janet180971
      @janet180971 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@markbooth1117 also stalybridge, hi neighbour. I'm a trucker and suffer this route a couple of times a week, I've always hated Woodhead but have come to tolerate it.

    • @stunimbus1543
      @stunimbus1543 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Don't even start about traffic getting onto the m67 from the woodhead pass. The queue can be right through Tintwistle. Even impacts into Glossop. Terrible.

    • @MagicRat
      @MagicRat ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Worked in Denton for a few months and did the Woodhead 5 days a week - absolutely soul destroying.
      The Mottram bypass or even an M67/M1 link will never happen because, you know, North

  • @TravellingTechie
    @TravellingTechie ปีที่แล้ว +64

    The turntable is looking in better shape these days! My Gran lives just off the abandoned railway line (now part of the trans penines trail?) and we'd often go walking along the line. It's had it's fair share of vandalism, despite the efforts of local volunteers conserving the site, but nice and clear now!

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's something a lot of people miss, because it's a dead end, the nearest place to get onto the trail now is from an access point further down at firethorn drive (I think there used to be some steps next to the bridge?)

    • @EmeyeP
      @EmeyeP ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don’t live too far away and have never been for a look. Need to change that.

  • @MrKpsuk84
    @MrKpsuk84 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:29 Next on 'Name That Theme Tune' - it's Stars In Their Eyes (with Matthew Kelly) 🌟👀🌟

  • @peterspencer7027
    @peterspencer7027 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sticking a solar farm on a reservoir is a great idea :)

  • @sedontane
    @sedontane ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm slightly disappointed the closing shot wasn't shot in reverse, because all the cars doing 40mph backwards would have been the icing on another excellent cake shaped video

  • @chrisdennis5371
    @chrisdennis5371 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Finally, my local motorway been waiting for this while you've been flying around the North West. Interesting fact, us locals don't have to worry too much about access to the train station as there is only one train a week and it doesn't even come back!

  • @tomlordmusic
    @tomlordmusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well that just started a hunt for the right version of the Stars in your Eyes theme music, Cheers son's crying, nice one.

  • @gerbuk
    @gerbuk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks!

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks a lot mate!

    • @gerbuk
      @gerbuk ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AutoShenanigans thanks for all your great work!!

  • @sameoldshit745
    @sameoldshit745 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I live in Sheffield and have to commute to Manchester/Liverpool quite often. We need a motorway or at least a bypass because the amount of people that just nonchalantly do 35 when the speed limit is 50/60 is silly. That tailback in Mottram is just wonderful too and i just love sitting in it for a good 30 mins every time.

  • @mcbeaverbob2440
    @mcbeaverbob2440 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I agree, Nothing worse than having to fanny about on a local road.

  • @northernbloke4356
    @northernbloke4356 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The M67 really has a feel of being meant for better things. The eastern end has a feel of a long distance motorway and then you see the end of motorway signs. The A57 east is a huge bottleneck and is used by loads of HGVs having to squeeze past on the single carraigeway. It is interesting to think if the Trafford centre would have been built had the M67 been fed through to the M1 at j35. It would have made Meadowhall shopping centre much easier to access from gtr Manchester.

  • @theredestbull
    @theredestbull ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I did have a good week, Jon. Thank you for asking.

  • @whichwasher2007
    @whichwasher2007 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As someone that uses the M67. I never understood why there was slip roads to the A57 and why the 2 roads wernt allready connected.
    Now I know why

  • @azog23
    @azog23 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Godley is pronounced god-lee. You got it right the first time.
    Also, no one in Denton goes to the train station. There's only one train a week, heading north. You can't even get a return ticket.

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you could get a return to Stockport and spend 20mins getting a coffee in Edgely ( though the other week the signaller at Stockport forgot the train was due and left another train in the platform that did not have crew to work it), there was about a half hour delay to the incoming service and it must have left immediately after.

    • @wteff8586
      @wteff8586 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd like to believe that was different before the motorway though

    • @billystanier6327
      @billystanier6327 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its a good place if you’re a steam train enthusiast though, as Denton is the stopping spot for steam specials to take on water.

    • @disappointingmarbleraces9028
      @disappointingmarbleraces9028 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pretty sure it's 2 trains a week, one in each direction.

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@disappointingmarbleraces9028 It is now, the service was 1 day a week until about 4 years ago. though the saturday service was cancelled in covid and then , well, because northern, then it is back working. You can use the "return" from Stockport to Staylbridge Via Denton ( cheaper than via Manchester ), to return via Manchester on that day ( a fares oddity), but its not much use for getting back to Denton. The Reddish Station on the Line does get the odd excursion calling , and is walkable from the other Reddish Station.

  • @andrewdolinskiatcarpathian
    @andrewdolinskiatcarpathian ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The worst thing about this video is that I now have to wait another week for my Sunday treat! Thank you John for another excellent instalment. 👏👏👍😀

  • @davidsl9381
    @davidsl9381 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you far another cheery cheeky episode

  • @jeremywilliams5107
    @jeremywilliams5107 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cracking episode. All that for 5 miles of Manc motorway!

  • @saltbjorn
    @saltbjorn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I watch these videos every week just to hear ‘wicked sweet awesome’ :)

  • @rechnin6680
    @rechnin6680 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well thanks for that! Always wondered what that weird exit at Tankersley was!.. and the Outro is a quiz show!

  • @grumpyhale821
    @grumpyhale821 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The solar farm on the reservoir not just produces electricity but also protects against evaporation.

  • @davidsnapebrcrosslane8782
    @davidsnapebrcrosslane8782 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Denton railway station sees 1 passenger train a week on Fridays , which is the Parliamentary service run to keep the line open.

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hehehe, yes I learned of this after filming... oops, I dont check "railway stats" however, the point is still valid :D

  • @richard1313
    @richard1313 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    About 20 years ago I used to live just by that turntable. Incidentally it's also about half way between Myra Hindley's house and Harold Shipman's surgery. The M67 was the main reason we bought a house there as we wanted a cheap new property with easy access to the airport. We always called it Godley (not Goadly) but then hardly talked to the locals so maybe we were wrong too. We visited a couple of weeks ago and it really shows how my interests have changed over the years as back then I never considered exploring the old railway lines and canals of the area.

    • @billystanier6327
      @billystanier6327 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also a stone throw from Dale Cregan’s hide out.

  • @Tigermoto
    @Tigermoto ปีที่แล้ว +12

    They really do need to do something up there. Hit the end of the M67 and you're in a traffic jam from the roundabout through to Glossop most of the time. Bring on the Glossop bypass... Please!

    • @Dan23_7
      @Dan23_7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep so true, after cruising the 67 it’s a long queue then on.

    • @simonrobbins9016
      @simonrobbins9016 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Mottram by pass has been approved, delayed by a legal challenge

    • @Tigermoto
      @Tigermoto ปีที่แล้ว

      @@simonrobbins9016 Mottram bypass. I knew something felt wrong while typing it. I've been watching it but it was just a tip of my tongue thing.

  • @roderickmain9697
    @roderickmain9697 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Having had a friend who lived near Mottram and whom I used to visit once or twice a year, the M67 always looked like it was meant for greater things. Junc 1 roundabout just connected with a couple junctions of M66 south before the M60 which also seemed like a bit of motorway destined for other things - although being part of the M60 wasnt it. Certainly, has been talk of extending it past Mottram for a sort of Motrram by-pass. There are frequently queues of traffic from the end of the M67 ito the traffic lights in the centre of town. I guess that got them thinking about the extension to Sheffield again. Other countries in Europe manage tunnels through mountains all the time but Cost/Benefit being what it is here - probably not going to happen here.

    • @simontay4851
      @simontay4851 ปีที่แล้ว

      They could speed up / change the traffic light timings or switch them off completely. I bet that would reduce the queues. The UK is the only country where the traffic light sequence is red, red-amber, green. In other countries they instantly change from red straight to green. That reduces wait time by a few seconds.

    • @JulianJLW
      @JulianJLW ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The queues of traffic from the end of the M67 (and often well before the end of it) to the Mottram traffic lights aren't so much frequent as constant, from morning until night - so once a day, lasting all day, I guess! A fairly short bypass around Mottram has finally been given the go-ahead and was supposed to have started around now, but it's currently subject to a legal challenge.

  • @tobyjackman3212
    @tobyjackman3212 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the best video I've ever seen about anything

  • @David_Crayford
    @David_Crayford ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never heard of floating solar arrays before. Always something new. 👍

  • @roblancs
    @roblancs ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice to see an episode from Granadaland 👌

  • @dominicgreenop9375
    @dominicgreenop9375 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Yet another great video! As I think I've mentioned before, what is now the M67 was intended part of a transpennine motorway network that linked Immingham/Grimsby docks with Liverpool, converging at or around the Eccles Interchange (M62/M60 J12) It would also serve industrial areas of Leeds, Manchester (Salford/Trafford), Scunthope and Sheffield directly, with easy links to elsewhere via the M1/M6. A truly brilliant road network if it had been achieved!

  • @EmeyeP
    @EmeyeP ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There was a local engineer who proposed using the Woodhead tunnels as an auto rail service similar to Eurotunnel. Trucks and cars would get on the trains at a terminal in Mottram with another near Rotherham. Problem is national power have put their power cables through the tunnels and they would need making liver to fit big carriages through.

    • @billystanier6327
      @billystanier6327 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was a really stupid idea. The hassle, time wasted for loading and unloading, and congestion chaos at either end just for a short journey.

    • @EmeyeP
      @EmeyeP ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@billystanier6327 it works for the Eurotunnel, and the idea was that HGV drivers could include the waiting and travel time as their rest time.

  • @electragaming4140
    @electragaming4140 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It wasn't cost/benefit that sank the M67 through Longdendale and the Don Valley; it was the presence of the Peak District National Park and the massive opposition to building a motorway through it.

  • @Ralnon
    @Ralnon ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is just the most...British of shows :D - Love it.

  • @martinmees878
    @martinmees878 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fast becoming my favourite YT channel. Now a staple of my Sunday dinner prep. You are now associated in my mind with peeling spuds and cutting parsnips whilst sipping on a good cider!

  • @TomStorey96
    @TomStorey96 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Putting floating solar panels on a reservoir is genius. Not only maximizing use of the area that can't be used for anything else, but they will help prevent evaporation by reducing exposure to the sun.

    • @danlance
      @danlance ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And since when has sun been a problem in northern England... 😉

    • @mybookfacetube
      @mybookfacetube 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danlance OOOh, harsh. Funny though

  • @viennacat1
    @viennacat1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice couple of nods to Granada TV there!

  • @stevec1097
    @stevec1097 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the additional Reservoir info, that interested me by a surprising amount 😊

  • @adamlee3772
    @adamlee3772 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good video again. It’s bloody criminal that various governments continue to fail to invest in the north. £12 billion for a tunnel? Imagine if it was in cockneyland? They’d just pour the money in but in the north, oh no.

  • @ulazygit
    @ulazygit ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Aha! Another motorway used regularly by me 13 years ago when contracting to a company HQd in Manchester (I lived in Nottingham). A painful journey across the Pennines that could have been so much quicker on 1/ a motorway in General and 2/ not getting stuck behind lorries up to Tintwistle. The amount of traffic then on the road justified a motorway- can’t begin to imagine what it’s like now!
    Still throughly enjoying your series - please never give up!

    • @jsmith6974
      @jsmith6974 ปีที่แล้ว

      I live in Hadfield (just off the Woodhead Pass between Tintwistle and Glossop), it's absolutely awful now. It takes on average 28 minutes for me to get from the roundabout at the end of the motorway, to my house in Hadfield after work. A journey of 2.9 miles.

  • @PeacefulSlumber
    @PeacefulSlumber ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I utterly love your videos. Nothing amusing or constructive to add, just keep doing what you're doing 🥰

  • @ianhalsall-fox
    @ianhalsall-fox ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Aw, lovely Granada when they finally decided to have an actual ident and jingle.

  • @Tonydodd1962
    @Tonydodd1962 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks interesting 👍

  • @Andrewjg_89
    @Andrewjg_89 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The M67 motorway should of started from Manchester City Centre to Sheffield where it would connect with the M1 motorway to the south of Sheffield. And also would of served Huddersfield as well I think.
    But yes such a shame that it’s only a very short motorway. I can see why that the M67 was built to avoid Hyde.

  • @markjones1337
    @markjones1337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    M60 must be coming up shortly. Looking forward to that on

  • @scrapyardwarriorvlogging
    @scrapyardwarriorvlogging ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this little motorway, my uncle lives just off here at Hyde 😊

  • @lefthandedspanner
    @lefthandedspanner ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what's now M1 junction 35A was originally meant to be a service area, hence the ghost sliproads on the north side of the junction
    the A616 Stocksbridge bypass is built along the line originally meant for the M67, but it was done on the cheap, so it's a 3-lane single carriageway and when originally opened in 1987, it had an appalling record for head-on collisions due to the overtaking lanes being badly placed
    the junction with A629 (Sheffield-Huddersfield-Halifax-Keighley-Skipton, effectively a trans-Yorkshire highway) is something very rare: a grade-separated junction on a single carriageway
    A616 used to run through Sheffield, it now disappears at M1 junction 35A and emerges again at junction 30 near Barlborough, making it one of the longest gaps in a major A-road

  • @bullfrommull
    @bullfrommull ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Granada. Outstanding!

  • @bobspeller2225
    @bobspeller2225 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great presentation John, and interesting stuff

  • @donalddodson7365
    @donalddodson7365 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you, Jon. Love the "thought process" behind starting and abandoning projects.

  • @ianbrooks6816
    @ianbrooks6816 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun video as always. Happy Sunday

  • @SteveDull
    @SteveDull ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's only too expensive if it doesn't involve/connect London.

  • @E4RLIES
    @E4RLIES ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s amazing how much I did not know about the place I’ve lived for 17yrs 😂😂
    Brill stuff as ever great channel ❤

  • @grahamtruckel
    @grahamtruckel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I thought I'd driven on most if not all UK motorways during my time as a travelling salesman, but I've got to admit I'd never even been aware of the M67, let alone driven it. But thanks to Jon, I see that I haven't missed much.

  • @donohoe71
    @donohoe71 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That was magic Johnners. I live in Hyde, where you were in the turntable that's where I walk the dogs every day. If I'd have seen you I'd have invited you for a brew. As always, a great video I never knew any of those secrets (other than the Godley (yes god-ley you were correct) turntable. It's a bit of a kick to actually know where you were on this one. Your video's are my guilty pleasure. Love them.

    • @HPsawus
      @HPsawus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was thinking the same when he was up near the reservoir, I walk along them tracks everyday

  • @davidpanton3192
    @davidpanton3192 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mmm. I believe Denton station gets one train a week so diffy access is not much of an issue...

  • @mrbluesky2050
    @mrbluesky2050 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy Sunday everyone....

  • @adrianbyron-parker5797
    @adrianbyron-parker5797 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks

  • @UnbelievableEricthegiraffe
    @UnbelievableEricthegiraffe ปีที่แล้ว +2

    M60 First planned in the late 1940s, Finally finished in 2000.
    A lot of houses between Junction 20 & 21 Blackley -Hollinwood were compulsory purchased But after a slight change of route by 100 metres The Former residents were offered the house back at a quater of the price. To be honest the noise & Pollution made a lot of buyers interested not bother in the end . I believe some were demolished eventually.

  • @johnf5817
    @johnf5817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perfect timing as I drove the length of the M67 yesterday for the very first time. Thanks John!

  • @DawsonsMemes
    @DawsonsMemes ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve been waiting for this one
    I remember sitting in Morrisons Café watching the demolition of the print works

  • @danielmarshall4587
    @danielmarshall4587 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Have to agree with you regarding the solar array and how lovely to see some railway infrastructure,..... and thank you yes my week has been splendid.

  • @RedoStone35
    @RedoStone35 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ads I got:
    Currys (#3)
    NatWest (#7)
    Galaxy S23 Ultra (#9) / Vodafone (#72)
    Kia Sportage (#25)

  • @MepsiPaxBerri
    @MepsiPaxBerri ปีที่แล้ว +6

    An entertaining video as always Jon, keep them coming!
    As a Hyde local, it's a little surreal to see you at the old Railway Turntable that members of my family have spent a lot of time restoring.
    There's been talk for over 30 years about extending the M67, or least building a bypass. I've long given up on it happening.

  • @mattyjpati
    @mattyjpati ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We need a channel like this for Australia... 😢

    • @mybookfacetube
      @mybookfacetube 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Get working on it digger. 😃

  • @AB-on1on
    @AB-on1on ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Here it is: my weekly dose of British humor about British motorways.

  • @iancharlton678
    @iancharlton678 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s amazeballs how quickly your shenanigans have eased into my routine……. I am more educated than I was and I’m finding it easier to keep up with your speedy delivery……. jumping about from narrative to……….. narrative, with occasional diversion to irrelevant observation and conjecture.
    I hope the rewards match your efforts 🇬🇧🙂
    As you were…….

  • @scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain
    @scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another fantastic and informative Video as always mate.

  • @regularguy3665
    @regularguy3665 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Used that road a time or three. At one time I just used to look for a sign heading roughly in the direction of home - heading to Nottingham from Manchester, Sheffield is clearly on the way. Imagine my excitement when I stumbled upon the M67. I thought ‘yes, Nottingham (via Sheffield) here we come. Imagine my disappointment 6 minutes later when faced with a bloody roundabout.
    I’ve also been through M1 35A countless times (used to go to Stocksbridge quite a lot) and always wondered who it was designed that way. Thanks to Jon I now know 😂

  • @tomsurrey2252
    @tomsurrey2252 ปีที่แล้ว

    BRILLIANT!

  • @MatthewAnnissMusic
    @MatthewAnnissMusic ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the special thanks! It’s an honour to be on one of your videos. Cheers!

  • @Cynderfan35
    @Cynderfan35 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    these episodes always make sunday so great :D

  • @RealThunderPRO
    @RealThunderPRO ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice! My favourite motorway!

  • @TaylorCxllins
    @TaylorCxllins ปีที่แล้ว

    Been waiting for this one for ages this is my motorway!!!

  • @stevep7950
    @stevep7950 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great Video but you could have covered the Mottram Bypass, which essentially would continue the M67 past part of Mottram. They keep delaying it but it is needed to ease the massive bottlenecks between the east end of the M67 and the start of the Woodhead pass.

    • @tucker9162
      @tucker9162 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That is a right pain. Mottram Bypass is really needed. Then again, you wouldn't have the entertainment of watching Audis and BMWs trying to push in the Hyde Road roundabout.

    • @jbconno
      @jbconno ปีที่แล้ว

      They’ve been on about the Mottram bypass for as long as I can remember. Sadly it’s not looking likely it’ll happen anytime soon

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think it's planned to be a motorway though, just a dual carriageway.

    • @philtucker1224
      @philtucker1224 ปีที่แล้ว

      John will happily comment on stuff that has happened in the past including very silly things, but I don’t think he will want to comment on anything that might be seen as “political” (just saying)…

    • @RichardLordRix
      @RichardLordRix ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@philtucker1224 I guess that rules out any comments about the language used by one of the protagonists in the decade before the "slight disagreement" in Europe

  • @JMH7506
    @JMH7506 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you John for keeping me sane. You’re videos are superb and I really enjoy watching them. Please keep up the good work buddy.

  • @Fent1386
    @Fent1386 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you John, my local Motorway this and it’s great to know things that I didn’t know. You said Godley correctly. A big misconception people think the motorway ends at Glossop when actually it doesn’t go anywhere near Glossop

    • @harrykeogh6548
      @harrykeogh6548 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wouldnt say its nowhere near its about 10 mins away

  • @stuartmiller6725
    @stuartmiller6725 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    John, you need to be on TV doing documentaries chap! Subtle humour, always giving the facts, and your delivery makes what should be a boring topic interesting. Go you, and looking forward to more!

    • @AutoShenanigans
      @AutoShenanigans  ปีที่แล้ว

      Just waiting on that call from "Yesterday"

  • @SiRhodesDriverTraining
    @SiRhodesDriverTraining ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There are 2 tunnels at Woodhead. The original from late 1800’s I think and the later one from 1950’s. The original is now structurally unsound and wasn’t wide enough for the Electric trains hence why the second tunnel was built. That is also now unusable for a road as it’s owned by national grid & carries major power cables through it.

    • @damiendye6623
      @damiendye6623 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      3 tunnels as the original was a pair of single track tunnels. The new one is a double track

  • @team-118
    @team-118 ปีที่แล้ว

    Godley railway turntable - nice.

  • @Elldeeve
    @Elldeeve ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks John. Have a look at j25 -m60 near Bradbury. South of it there is a clearing that goes somewhere. Where ?

  • @roynicol8353
    @roynicol8353 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well very presented . Filmed really well . Great to watch .

  • @SiPhillipson
    @SiPhillipson ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There's a rather macabre connection the Mottram end of the M67.
    Within a very short distance of the terminus (less than a mile) you have:
    - The site of the house where Hindley and Brady lived
    - The house where Harold Shipman lived
    - The site of the Dale Cregan murders.
    A bit of a grim quirk of geography.

    • @borderlands6606
      @borderlands6606 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn't LS Lowry live close by?

    • @SiPhillipson
      @SiPhillipson ปีที่แล้ว

      @@borderlands6606 yes... And there's a statue near the crossroads in Mottram.
      I omitted that as he hadn't killed anyone... :)

    • @borderlands6606
      @borderlands6606 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SiPhillipson I added Lowry to counterpoint the grave mischief associated with the vicinity. The Longdendale Valley as a whole has a reputation for high strangeness. With apologies to anyone for whom that area represents hearth and home, it seems a very liminal place in every way, which is probably why Lowry liked it - part barren waste, part Manchester overspill.

  • @David_Crayford
    @David_Crayford ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8,010,815 views and 81,000 subs. Can't be long now.
    For anyone who hasn't noticed, the gold lettering in *Auto Shenanigans* spells out one of Jon's favourite words.

  • @willtricks9432
    @willtricks9432 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stunning drone shot at the end.

  • @mikegould763
    @mikegould763 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    :-) enjoyable, I'm on that road every day, and I didn't know most of that

  • @joelikesconverse
    @joelikesconverse ปีที่แล้ว

    i love the bloopers, best parts

  • @dangerousandy
    @dangerousandy ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice shot of the Woodhead Reservoir

  • @peteg3
    @peteg3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally the episode I was waiting for, my local motorway!

  • @FastAsFunk
    @FastAsFunk ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Excellent stuff thanks Jon. Always look forward to the SOTM videos. Also thanks to TH-cam for supplying the 0.50x and 0.25x playback speed options so I can actually follow what's going on 😂

    • @msamour
      @msamour ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I thought I was the only one. 😯

  • @Manc-king
    @Manc-king ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact the bridge at 1:36 as you can see the work they have just started to replace it is scheduled to take 3 years the motorway was built faster

    • @HPsawus
      @HPsawus ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow it’s really scheduled to take 3 years? Gonne get used to driving through them roadworks

  • @scottshaw1310
    @scottshaw1310 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mottram downhill to Denton. Favourite spot for an Italian tuneup👍🏻

    • @antonycharnock2993
      @antonycharnock2993 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Always on my trips to Manchester from Sheffield. Remember to stay in the middle lane though or you'll end up in Hyde...

  • @oliabid-price4517
    @oliabid-price4517 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Master of sarcasm, more please.😂