Secrets of The Motorway - A64M
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
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We're still in Leeds and this week we look at the A64M... another gem of an urban, inner city motorway. It's very similar to the A58M with it's oddly designed sliproads and junctions and in fact there's little reason from what I can see as to why these two motorways have separate numbers.
In this series I aim to explore what our motorway network is hiding. As we drive along at 70mph..ish...we simply just wouldn't be aware of what we're missing. This series will uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer. 
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It's a Sunday and it's time for the Motorway guy
Well, have you had a good week?
@@Perthshire Ronnie O Sullivan sure has in the Snooker UK Championships 🏆
“Planned in the 1960s but never completed.”
The epitaph of so many road projects in the UK.
Not to mention in many other parts of the then-First World.
With the railway equivalent being "planned in the 2010s to much fanfare but never completed..."
Brilliantly presented as usual. Cynicism, information and humour all in one.
It wasn't that long ago that the A64(M) was split level at the Woodpecker Junction, the west-bound carrigdeway came down to traffic lights, whilst east-bound passed over on a bridge, this was altered in the 90's (?) when the area was re-developed and the road made whole, so to speak, this was at the time when the Pub, was demolished to make room, and the massive DHSS building was built on the old Quarry Hill Flats site. These flats were also part of the reason that the A64(M) was split level at this point, as a high level west-bound road would have been very close to the flats there. i t may also account as to why each carridgeway is of a different M designated lenght...
The Woodhouse Carpark is a funny one. To enter it you exit the A64M (west) at basement level but to get back on the A64M (east) you exit at level 7. I think that's the level number, it's certainly non-intuitive to go up to exit a multistory carpark . 😅
I must admit it confused me a bit.
From Scotland, but my dad is from Leeds. Whenever I’d laugh at the oddity of the right hand lane exit slip-road @ Charing X on the M8 in Glasgow he would always mention that Leeds has one too. Glad to finally see it now!
Glasgow still wins hands down, because not only does the one you mention have a matching right hand on-ramp from Great Western Road, there is another matching pair of right hand slips at the Cathedral/Springburn Road junction. Also, if joining the M77 from Tradeston, you join from the right at Carnoustie Street then have to get across two lanes of the M74, which also has traffic weaving in the opposite direction to go from Seaward Street to the M8, all this fun in under 1km. Whoever designed the Kinning Park junction was high as a kite!
@@southcalder that on slip at J15 M8 has caused me issues, getting from High street to Dobbies Loan. Maps told me to join at J15 on the right and exit at J16 on left. Very few times I managed to cross the 5 lanes in time before exit disappeared. Eventually decided to just take surface streets going forward
I was hoping it was the A64(M) this week, purely for the batshit slip road.
It’s not Sunday without your videos, thank you
Leeds seems to have been the exact idea that Marples was envisioning for UK cities - not least because of his interests in Road construction. You wonder if he hadnt been around whether Beeching might have been less draconian and we might have had better rail routes. If "Ifs" and "Ands" were pots and pans we could open a jolly good hardware store.
It was exactly the same case for cities like London Birmingham as well. If you watch Jay Foreman's videos about the inner ring roads mentioning how there was supposed to be a motorway (or at least dual carriageways) around Covent Garden that campaign groups like those that poet John Betjeman are part of and opposed these schemes then you'll see that a lot of English cities had plans like this in place and only because of local opposition they never got built.
If you're driving north from the A58M/A64M towards the A64, the road takes you down a slope and onto a bend. The car will naturally start to speed up. But if you're a diligent motorist, you'll get watching the curved slip road on your left fir traffic merging into your lane.
And, just at the moment you realised you've edged above the speed limit...
FLASH BANG WALLOP!
Speed camera. What a sneaky place to put it. 📸🤔🙄
I'm a Dull man and I love the information you provide my future Wife says I'm very special but I say this channel is genius 😂
Another Sunday another motorway video..the weekend is now complete..have a great week Jon..✌🙂
A train crash where nobody gets hurt has to be my favourite type of accident. In the theme of "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."
Good video, Jon, really enjoyed this look at the city I live in.
Fun fact that's not fun: I once applied for a job at the Self-Storage unit featured in the video! That's literally as fun as I can make it.
The cuts and presentation is getting really slick, looks and sounds good.
Brilliantly factual as always Jon 👍🏼
When I’m delivering around Leeds i often travel on this road and use the tunnel bit, never really giving any of it a thought. The next time I’m there I can now drive with knowledge 💪🏼
I couldn’t name the tune this week 🙁
Victor and Hugo.
Knowledge is power! So make sure that extra power doesn't get you done for speeding.
@@beeble2003 Never, I set the speed limiter on my Merc sprinter 😂 1mph increments from 15mph.
Im just going to polish my halo 😂
Victor and Hugo, is the tune.
You can't beat a nice little dollop of road where "stuff just happens" 😂😂
Loving these Leeds Based Episodes :)
Just like the A58(M) . I saw the title and clicked like for the other half of the A64(M)Leeds inner ring road 🛣️ 😂😂
The reason why it is a Motorway is to restrict access to it. A normal road is a Right of Way so you can walk, cycle, drive and even herd your goats along it. It is also a Right of Way for utilities like water, gas etc which is why the Utility Companies are always digging the road up as that is where the pipes are. A Motorway is a Special Road and is created by a Special Road Order and is not a Right of Way. Only certain classes of vehicle may legally use it and only certain classes of driver. So learner drivers, pedestrians, cyclist, goat herders etc are not permitted to use a Special Road. So by making the A58[M] and the A64[M] motorways, the City Council could keep pedestrians, cyclists, people on mobility scooters and goat herders off the road.
How do you do it? Not only another informative sweep across infrastructure, foibles and architecture surrounding what is a minuscule motorway but you even throw in some interesting railway facts! Added to that of course you have some right belting tunes in the background, I am starting to think of your videos more as a variety show 🤔
Thank you John, you always somehow make me chuckle 👍🍀🍻
Leeds, certainly keeps you on your driving toes, with the junctions changes and jct 2A westbound exit slip been totally eradicated. The Armley gyratory the leading to A58M is now a few months behind schedule, you wonder whether the city council have got to see the Wortley slip being completed or are we waiting April 5th for new funding.
I have had a good week thank you, and thank you for this video. "Traffic Mayhem" oh yes the good folk of Leeds stomach plenty of that most days. I drove through Bradford City centre just last week, where ROAD WORKS are currently taking place and that was a spectacle of a magnetude I'd not whitnessed in a good while.
Love watching these when the come out!
Keep up the work Jon, exactly the sort of thing to watch on a Sunday afternoon.
No flood at the end this week. Nice bit of railway trivia too.
"Stuff just happens".
Couldn't have descibed the A64M better myself!
Finnaly you did the a64m ❤
Another great episode, waiting for the A167(M), another motorway with an exit from the right hand carriageway
The video will need a trigger warning! Heading to the Tyne bridge from the Byker direction I just go with the flow - and hope for the best :)
@@rogink It's been a long time since I was in Newcastle, and didn't drive the road much. Was staying around Four Lane Ends and when coming up from down south would take the A1/A1(M) then the A19 and use the Tyne Tunnel.
@@axelBr1 Oh I've only done that route 2-3 times in the past 10 years. Even the satnav gets nervous :)
hello, I am good, my week was good thanks. My name is Piggy and the pleasure is mine in joining you for this exciting episode!
After weeks of having to search to find ya vids u popped up on my suggestions... They don't want me to watch but ..... Life finds a way 😂😂😂
Drove past you while you were filming this one! Couldn't believe it
Another problem with an unmanned car park with motorway access is you park your car, walk away for some time then come back to find your car absent with no way of knowing it's present whereabouts because within a work day it could have been driven pretty much anywhere in the country
The Next episode of Secrets of The Motorway might even be the A66 (M), the A167 (M) or the A194 (M) and I bet the series would conclude with the M25.
A64M v A308M. I’m with you on team A308M as being the shortest. BUT the A64M beats the A308M on interesting features 👏👏👍😀
BUT BUT BUT right hand lane exists are bloody dangerous and the scourge of inner city motorways. For anyone not used the them (like me) they are frightening especially during peak hours. How they ever got allowed to be built that way! 🥴
I wish there was a leeds orbital moterway...
Didn't The M1 used to finish in Leeds city centre? I seem to remember as a kid that being the case when my parents took me up there to see my nan and relatives? A video on that and what it has become would be cool, unless I'm just dreaming that this was the case, in which case ignore this whole comment!!!
It finished on the edge of Leeds
Nice! I think unfinished 1960s freeway plans are pretty universal across much of the then-developed world. 😁 (And the parts that _did_ get built are all similarly bleak-looking, unless they got built or rebuilt much later.)
Regarding parking garages on a freeway... Here in Minnesota, Mn/DOT built _three_ of them over Interstate 394 in downtown Minneapolis. 394 runs from I-494 in the western suburbs, to I-94 on the edge of downtown, then continues into downtown to end at branching on/off ramps to a few major streets.
Of the three parking ramps, Ramp A (at 10th St and 7th St) is the biggest; its northernmost block is over the freeway, with the rest stretching over 2-3 other city blocks.* (The southernmost block has the Greyhound intercity bus station, too.) Ramp B is only a block-and-a-half long, and sits between 6th and 5th Streets. Ramp C is similar-sized but different shape, and sits between 4th and 3rd Streets at the official end of 394.
All three garages have direct access to and from 394 (eastbound offramps, westbound onramps), as well as from city streets. They're especially convenient for events, as Target Field (the Minnesota Twins baseball stadium) and Target Center (the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball arena) are on either side of 394, right next to Ramps A and B. All three garages have pedestrian skyway connections** to much of downtown, and during the day their spaces largely fill up with commuters' cars. And like other downtown parking ramps, they offer somewhat-discounted monthly rates for commuters who park there every (week)day.
And having been built in the 1980s, they're a _lot_ less bleak-looking than Leeds's garage; they're all '80s postmodern, with a lot of warm brick, colored tiles, and some glass block. (Street View of Ramp A from a nearby street: maps.app.goo.gl/U4WrnzsfqNT3QkWB8 . Those awnings over the top deck have solar panels on them; they were still being installed when Street View took the pic there in 2019.)
* The streets get a bit tangled there, due to three different street grids coming together. N 7th St and N 10th St run _one_ block apart on either side of the over-the-freeway block, instead of the _three_ blocks apart they usually are. 🙂
** Downtown Minneapolis has an extensive network of fully-enclosed pedestrian walkways one story up from street level. They wind through buildings a lot, so they're harder to navigate than the mostly-straightforward street grid below. But they're lined with small shops and restaurants that cater to downtown office workers and residents. They were built from the 1960s on to keep downtown competitive with suburban shopping malls, because our area has cold winters and hot-and-humid summers. (Downtown St Paul -- the other Twin City -- has a similar skyway system, as does part of downtown Duluth (a smaller outstate city ~150 miles NNE).)
EDIT: minor typo corrections
Ugh. I lived next to and drove on these roads for a few years. Pretty sure Leeds's highways planning department in the '60s just gave a cage of gibbons a map of the city centre, some wax crayons, and a load of drugs, and then built the results. Absolutely mental.
Can’t wait for the A66(M)!! 😅
Very informative and entertaining as usual. You've made the Leeds road system look good. Unfortunately beyond the inner ring road/A58m/A64m it most certainly isn't: Leeds City Council, in their absolute finest hour of idiocy, have shut City Square - very effectively cutting the city centre in half. We have a railway station with a car access and car park smaller than a postage stamp. Indeed, opening Marsh Lane as a second station would be a brilliant masterstroke. I wonder if it will happen while the clowns are running the circus?
Excitement, Adventure, a Jedi seeks not these things. Motorway fans are gagging for it and you deliver. Champion.
Nothing beats a Sunday evening watching this.
Awesome reporting, thank you Jon. Former raildock looks like a great place to do some urban redevelopment. Put an old railways carriage there, make a park around it, charging station 😁 Really cool footage from the air in the videos, if I may add and speaking of which, fingers crossed for an Auto Shenigans meets Geoff Buys Cars collab video in 2024!
The SAAB on the dyno station, Geoff off to buy a 9-3 diesel for his next challenge, Geoff & Jon on more UK motorway fact-finding missons? So many oppertunities! Cheers✌💯
I guess they might get to it eventually, half of Leeds is a building site at the moment, they're doing a lot of development where HS2 was supposed to go, though I don't know if the corridor is being kept open incase things change.
Quarry Hill, where John was stood towards the end of the video, was the site that Hitler chose to run the UK from when he won.
And now it's the home of DWP, so swings and roundabouts.
@@McGubbins42 I’m not sure which I’d prefer 😂
No it wasn't. The UK would have been divided into six occupation districts, headquartered in London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Liverpool, Glasgow and Dublin (he planned on taking Ireland, too). Overall headquarters of the German occupation forces would have been at Blenheim Palace, Churchill's ancestral home near Oxford.
Love your work, John! Keep it going my dude!!!
Loved the railway drone shot 😂
‘They are the bunglers in crime……Victor and Hugo’ :-D
I like these little reminders of why I live in the countryside and never visit any of the big cities if I can possibly avoid it.
Getting more ambitious with the video technique, several learned commentaries for teleport effect.
best series on youtube! enjoyed this one Jon :)
Wickedsweetawesome... I can have lunch now without getting indigestion.
Awesome !!😁
John, thanks for visiting all these urban motorway hellscapes so that we don't have to.
Another exciting episode
There is something satisfyingly geek like but i love these videos 🙂
This is one of those channels I didn't know I needed. Its lovely to nerd out and learn things on a totally unexpected topic - keep it up.
LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS
Yeah Reading can keep the accolade of the worlds shortest motorway.
Leeds is slowly improving following it's motorway-dominated passed!
Shame you missed the jeopardy of the cycle lanes on Regent Street! They are fun!
keep it up John!
Excellent Video John.
Sunday/monday in Oz at 3.00am love you long time John great vid.
Awesome video
Thanks Jon
Sheffield is an amazing place! I love it.
Considering the A64(m) is effectively the same as the A58(m), its oddities are remarkably differently odd, and despite being a conessure (occasional driver…who can’t spell), I was unaware of all of that. Tremendous week highlight as ever Jon.
Connoisseur?
@@SportyMabamba that’s it.. thanks
I used to visit Leeds once a year for a service on some equipment we'd supplied, from the mid 1990's until the early 2000's. Although it was a long day to carry out the service work, I enjoyed it, as it was somewhere I didn't usually go.
awesome video
Hi Jon, great video 👍
You are welcome to Stockholm one day, there are a lot of motorway exits to the left (which is like your right),
They have some in Gothenburg, as well as some "cut across all lanes to get off at an exit"
Are they the result of when Sweden switched which side you drive on in the 1960s?
I saw you filming outside quarry hill keep up the good work.
Your awesome love the videos very interesting
Brilliant thank you
These videos have absolutely no right to be this good
Good stuff 👍 Happy my local A308M still " leads"
Thanks!
Thanks a lot mate, appreciate it!
Leeds centre is a bloody nightmare
Tbf, thats a reasonably solid artist impression to real life implementation.
Just like the A58(M) that meets up with the A64(M). The A64(M) is also a short motorway that passes through Leeds City Centre and could have been a proper motorway. Perhaps you should do A194(M) in Newcastle and A66(M) near Darlington.
Still waiting for the Christmas Shopping post. We need to know where to buy our ‘motorway goodies’ for the family :) :)
Might have something you'll find interesting out soon! Thanks a lot!
I’m just wondering what the Christmas special will be about this year… loved the motorway services Crimbo shopping tips last time… 😊
Did you know, when they upgraded the Regent Street bridge to steel girders they dropped one of the old reinforced concrete girders onto the road below. I don't think anyone was injured or killed thankfully.
I heard they loaded one onto an unsuitable truck and it squished it. Nobody was injured.
3:47 Ha! A chance to have a moan at money spent on a brand new bridge for the A64M up there in the norf, whereas they said that they didn't have enough money to do that down here in London and so the end of the M4/A4 Hammersmith flyover was sewn back up with big cables and bolts.
Glasgow has exit and entry lanes on the right between royal infirmary and Charing Cross on the M8 😊
I used to love going to the woodpecker pub. Hear the ghost stories of the regulars and see their dodgy photo's---------of the ghosts.
Isn't there a right hand exit lane on the M8 in Glasgow?
It's Jon. Automatic "Like".
W.S.A. As usual. Went to Leeds Armouries missed the sign heading East and ended up going through one if these tunnels towards Harrogate and turning around. Saw the sign heading west no problem.
5:09 your right foot looks weird! Great video!
What’s the longest you’ve had to wave for in an outro? 👋 🚁
Oh look my local bit of infrastructure
Nice footage, bit Jonathan Meade's in style
Oh yes. The roads of my youth...
A more interesting replacement for the top gear borefest
KNEW IT ! :D
Ah, motorways running through the centre of towns. The 1960's had such great people-centric ideas...
Another right-hand-side exit is the M25 jcn 5. You stay left to go on M25 and right to A21 or M26, but those slip roads are enormous and A21 is also a big dual carriageway.
Also M1 j43 to join M621 but it's not the same as that junction on the A64
That dates back to when the bit of the M25 north of junction 5 didn't exist. Instead all M25 traffic had to continue along what's now the M26. Why they couldn't have rehashed the junction when the missing bit of the M25 is a mystery to me.
there is something wierd driving that part of Leeds and going thru all the tunnels those giant rabbits dug
"Planned in the 1960s, but never completed" is the story of this channel
If you look at the road map it clearly shows the numbers 6 6 6 the number of the beast!
I’ve only been to Leeds once - it was mostly dark
Odd how artists impressions of forthcoming developments always remain just that.