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I have not drove on a motorway for 16 yrs. due to the fact, there are way to many dickheads. They swing, in & out behind you. 70 MPH is the limit. Not a target

THEM HOUSES WERE A BIT TOO CLOSE TO MOTERWAY 5:09 RAYMOND BAXTER USE TO PRESENT TOMORROW'S WORLD FROM 1965 TO 1977 THURSDAYS BBC1 BEFORE TOP OF THE POPS

A bridge completed every 8 days?? it would take a year now!!!

Even back then Dude Driving cabriolet with family is lane hogging

Squeezed picture, ya need switch setting to letterbox

One of my grandads friends had a job delivering fuel to the plant. The way he used to talk he spent more time selling it to local farmers 😬 The m62 is an amazing achievement and nice view if you can get your eyes off the road long enough to look at it, but i hate it. Trying it get along it without getting stuck in road works, bad traffic, an accident or bad weather is nearly impossible. Some days it can take an hour, others it can take 6. Ive been up one side in heavy rain, thick cloud at the top and bright sunshine the other side. And when it stops so do all of the other smaller crossings as people try to get around it.

Honestly, years now to do a pot hole, a junction, a new stretch of motorway, decades for HS2 and most of the times stuff never gets done. Also my grandfather worked on the M54. Even at the time he thought it was a bit daft it only went to join the M6 south, not the North. Possibly objected to too much and would have gone through too many homes or areas of interest.

Let us not forget the chap who invented the motorways and the VW beetles to use them. From 1936, how it all went wrong, could have been european comission then, but less democratic than now of course.

i thoroughly enjoyed this documentary about British civil engineering.

No modern British government (blue or red) could ever build anything for Britain again, let alone legacies like the motorways or the NHS.

You will not get any roads constructed in Wales now because of Labour run policies. And now we have 20mph on our roads

is dis a space films? he talk a to fasts init! what is hsppenings!.whas it all means!!..... 🤡

Distorted images make it unwatchable.

Even when it first opened there was mastoids hogging the outside lane lol .

"Driving in Britain is never going to be the same again" aye your right their mate !

To get a good idea of what the UK's transport infrastructure looked like in the early 1970's, check out the 'video' for Black Sabbath's 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'! Very atmospheric. Great shots of queues of buses on Birmingham's Bull Ring, and what I think is Drax power station (unbeatable name!) in Yorkshire. (I know a power station isn't 'transport infrastructure', but there's a great view of it from the motorway!) [EDIT: Someone appears to have re~edited it - not to great effect, imo - and unfortunately much of the footage taken, literally, 'on the road' has been lost; still well worth a watch, though!]

Puck anything north of Watford but do it in London ooh no it's treason

Although there was no speed limit at the beginning, the average car of that day typically was barely able to keep up 100km/h. They'd be screaming along. Some exceptions were there of course, but if your car was able to get to 130km/h you had a fast one.

Hard to believe now but : No speed limit and no central barriers. No seat belts. Couple all that with rear view mirrors that were nowhere near up to the job and it’s a wonder there wasn’t carnage from day one.

16 and a half million for a motorway! Wonder how much that would be today and also if it compares to the relative amount. Of course you would have to factor in the cost of corruption these days eh? Yeah, don’t we know it. Got to grease those politician’s palms. I love this film, not a lazy, self serving, work-shy arsehole in sight.

Just look at the Bus them Men Travel in to go Work

28 year old Geoffrey hunter looks like 48 year old Geoffrey hunter

In Germany, a great many of the cars were advertised as "motorway proof".

If you want to experience or even miss the 1960s traffic stricken small town centre experience just visit Lyndhurst on the eastbound A35 from Bournemouth or The West during the summer school holidays . Situated on the now back road towards non M27 southampton the village stinks of traffic fumes on a still day & whilst sitting there in a mile tailback you can enjoy the unspectacular, un scenic suburban housing surrounding the decaying facades of the grimy high street which must reflect exactly how life in little places on main roads used to be - hideous ! 😁👍

Travesty the London ringways we’re never completed …

No real health and safety flat caps fag in mouth cups of tea 😂

The cars were not as slow as claimed in this video. Most 4 cylinder cars could do 70 mph back then and many could do 90 plus.

28:40 : B.S! Stop changing history!! Max speed 50 mph!!! Utter BS!!

27:29 : B.S!

@13:10 Child in Time 😎

@13:10 Child in Time 😎

A very interesting video of the building of britains 1st motorway of the Preston by pass in 1956! 😎

They should've visited Philadelphia and looked at The Blue Route plan to see what happens when you plan a motorway through wealthy suburbs... :D

If you want a taste of the good old days take the A5 North from Milton Keynes to Nuneaton during rush-hour :O

As a coach driver, and knowing the true facts about the myth of the “M62 Farm” split by the motorway! Over many years I’ve put so many people right about the real reason the M62 was split either side of the Wild’s farm. (Ref: Milk Marketing Board.) Even today people still believe it was a “stubborn farmer” that wouldn’t move, despite lots of money being offered. I’m glad this has been put into media format, for prosperity and for fact checking, as sadly most of the MMB milk tanker drivers who knew the truth, are sadly no longer with us. m-E-m

Tip top editing at the end, the RA....

We need to get back to this out roads have been clogged with anti car councils cycle ways etc. It's time for the nation to wakeup and put cars and roads at the heart of out transport system. Time to open up the dual carriage ways again remove the buses and cycle lines .

The State isn’t interested in its citizens quality of Life. They bring out the meaningless statement that it’s in “The public interest” complete bullshit a false narrative to justify their non democratic decisions. In reality they ignore the “public” that are directly effected. I suspect that if any of the politicians had to compromise their interests it would not be happening in their backyard. There’s a great and apt old saying, “ The problem with Progress is that there’s too much Progress”. Of course the political classes are caught in a Catch 22 circumstance, supposed progress is part of their “raison d’etre” as they really do not have very much to offer their citizens plus it’s a fashion word to be seen as progressive, an empty word meaningless and without an objective meaning. Rather like much of the euphemistic language banded around, such as “legacy”, what a bag of shite. People need to Spartan the fck up, it’s a lot easier to diminish the supposed power the State has over the citizen. The Lessons of History, the idiots in power think it’s going to always be, they are wrong, History tells you the Story.

And Jonathon Glancey, so eloquent. Totally enjoyable to listen to, in this great documentary.

A fantastic documentary. I worked on the M77 extension, (Glasgow) in 1996. The site was 7 miles,(approx) in length with, if I remember correctly, 26 structures (it may have been more). It’s an experience I’ll never forget, I enjoyed it immensely, we started at 7-30 am & the Work Day finished around 7. That was 6 days a week, I had to travel 50 miles to work, so your Life became the Project, I’m sure that all or almost all the people that have worked on these Civil Engineering Projects have poignant & great memories of them, they are unique, it’s difficult to put into words but the combination of the sheer scale of the challenges & the tremendous energy & commitment of all that are involved, and the large numbers of earth moving plant, they have a tremendous & infectious energy. They are a reflection of what people can achieve. I’m sure that down the ages many would share the same feeling about the great civil engineering builds. Brilliant. But as some have pointed out, people by and large don’t really appreciate the level of commitment needed to realise these great projects.

My uncle told me of all the broken down cars after enthusiastic drives down the new road.

Marples....transport minister and also on the board of construction firm Laing....hang on a minute....nothing changes then

I’d simply remove their cars and not allow them to fly. Simple as that. You have a right to protest but you have no right to be a hypocrite and should be made to live by your ethics. Which many don’t do.

The corrupt Ernst Marples. Let’s never forget that.

Got to love interviewing a bunch of people not even close to being alive at the time second guessing as if they were there what it was like. Typical BBC.

Folk had better driving skills in the 50’s and they only had 8 flamin miles of motorway !!!

:brrrRrr: I remember those electric fires; even as a kid I knew those spotty heaters were dangerous, and here that poor dame's pulling her couch right up to her fireside appliance there

A very good documentary which I enjoyed and recommend. However, you do mention the design of the road signs which I would like to clear up. I always understood that Britain joined the relevant European institutions who agreed amongst themselves a standard to be used on road signs to be understood internationally, --- type, colour, circle, triangle, rectangle and all the others details concerning road signs. Am I wrong, or was it Britain's sole output that became the European /world standard? I am afraid that the latter I do not believe.

those times, when the only usefulness borne by that dirt driveway to Stoneyhenge was for accommodating many a boiling radiator 🍸

telling introduction by its first motorist .. autoroutes're SO fuckingly boring, I more often miss my exit .. although Montana's freeways across prairie were thrilling for their absence of daytime speed limit --- the expressways criss-crossing our urban strip of valleys were impressive to come back to during the early-Eighties, yet the ROW broadenings now seen along the BI's trunk routes there are jaw-dropping..!