Here Are Some Weird Roads Where I Live

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  • @polska-ukrayina
    @polska-ukrayina 2 роки тому +378

    Phew. The bottom-barrel content is back. I was almost worried with the last video being so high quality :)

    • @seod1353
      @seod1353 2 роки тому +5

      Ahhh its grand

    • @MaticJ29
      @MaticJ29 2 роки тому +15

      I know right, this bottom barrel content honestly makes me think that this channel is better than the main channel.

    • @ВикторФирсов-е9ф
      @ВикторФирсов-е9ф 2 роки тому

      Мир вашему дому!

  • @champagne.future5248
    @champagne.future5248 2 роки тому +89

    My favourite part of Toycat videos and streams is when they don’t end. Also I refuse to tell you how my day went. It will always be a mystery

  • @tobeswhite1983
    @tobeswhite1983 2 роки тому +24

    When he said Americans being terrified of tiny European roads i just picture how funny itll be with an American being terrified driving down that road in Taddiport in a big RAM 1500.

    • @AndyZach
      @AndyZach 2 роки тому +4

      It's more terrifying if the American ISN'T terrified, but drives at 55 mph (national speed limit in US) which is 88.5 kph. He won't even see oncoming traffic, but will run over it.

  • @dandiesel9966
    @dandiesel9966 2 роки тому +51

    "If I've offended you then you've picked the wrong UA-cam channel" Spectacular, this is why you're great.

  • @ChristianOhlendorffKnudsen
    @ChristianOhlendorffKnudsen 2 роки тому +23

    I'm surprised how ingrained the nature of traffic is in my psyche, once you've got your license, I got mine at least 15 years ago and I don't drive regularly, but every single picture of traffic, from my perspective, in the wrong side of the road, immediately gave me intense anxiety.

    • @Ronald.Golleher
      @Ronald.Golleher 2 роки тому

      I mean if you go anywhere with any sort of traffic, whether driving or not, you become accustomed to it from the time you're able to notice things and retain them.

  • @doggoception3536
    @doggoception3536 2 роки тому +15

    You are really the only person who could make a "bottom of the barrel" video about roads, and make it enjoyable :)

  • @ragazza1401
    @ragazza1401 2 роки тому +2

    Honestly my day is great Toycat, thank you for asking.

  • @jaycee330
    @jaycee330 2 роки тому +10

    14:30 They are narrow because they were former dirt tracks and they were converted for motor uses, and just try acquiring land to widen it, it's a uphill battle.

  • @AliciaTheTroonSlayer
    @AliciaTheTroonSlayer 2 роки тому +4

    This reminds me of New Jersey. When I moved there from Texas it was weird how businesses are just RIGHT on the highway. No exiting, just turning right into some place after going 60-70mph. I don’t miss it

  • @billylawuk
    @billylawuk 2 роки тому +17

    I live near one of the UK's shortest motorways, 1 junction between the 2 ends and the junction is just an industrial estate, the way it ends is literally a relatively small roundabout, and before work was done to 'complete' the motorway, this roundabout didn't even exist - only sliproads (there was just a void of motorway, as it was originally intended to go much further than it does). M606

    • @chickeninabox
      @chickeninabox 2 роки тому +3

      Now, I know where you live

    • @FateBoost
      @FateBoost 2 роки тому

      @@chickeninabox Spooky. Now ask the neighbours if the boss lives next door lol

  • @Termless
    @Termless 2 роки тому +12

    woah, I was really worried about this channel with the recent changes in quality, luckily this video changed my mind

  • @vladkv4620
    @vladkv4620 2 роки тому +12

    You haven't seen the magic roundabout, that is the hell for non local drivers. I'm a 19 y.o driver from London, went somewhere through the magic roundabout and almost pissed. The Magic roundabout is in Swindon.

    • @zoutepindas6128
      @zoutepindas6128 2 роки тому +1

      I've looked at it on google street view and it looks absolutely insane, how do people actually get through that shit? Wouldn't it make more sense to just make a big normal roundabout instead? It's like they're asking for accidents

    • @ninesquared81
      @ninesquared81 2 роки тому

      @@zoutepindas6128 it actually started as a conventional roundabout but then it got overloaded with traffic, so it was turned into the junction we have today, which is really just 5 mini-roundabouts linked together. It actually handles traffic a lot better than a normal roundabout.

    • @zoutepindas6128
      @zoutepindas6128 2 роки тому

      @@ninesquared81 It looks like a pain in the ass to understand where you're going. Also, these mini roundabouts you have in Britain are ridiculously small. How would you even drive a van around that shit without cutting?

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 2 роки тому

      @@zoutepindas6128 The Magic Roundabout is, by all accounts, easy to use and very safe. Cars move slowly, and follow local rules. Forget about the big system, and just look at the mini roundabout you're currently on. It works. (See the Tom Scott video for more.)

  • @hehefunnyrat936
    @hehefunnyrat936 2 роки тому +23

    I actually was on the m4 earlier today after returning from LHR (I do admit I went planespotting)
    Also as a matter of fact, at 2:43 you mentioned there is a plane, which is the worlds largest commercial airliner, the Airbus A380 - It seems to be BA.
    One thing I should also add, is look at Hanger Lane, If I am not mistaken at some points it can reach 9 lanes, and it still gets extremely busy and there can be major traffic on the a406

  • @LUNE.44
    @LUNE.44 2 роки тому +4

    that last joke alone was better than the majority of youtube videos from other channels. love your work man

  • @SalvatoreBabones
    @SalvatoreBabones 2 роки тому +9

    It's fantastic to see the return to form! Now if only there were a big salmon at the bottom of that barrell ....

  • @17amza_
    @17amza_ 2 роки тому +17

    I can't believe you made an entire video about roads without mentioning Rome, missed opportunity.

  • @SniartekilI
    @SniartekilI 2 роки тому +2

    19:38 isn't a cloverleaf, it's a stack interchange, and the "spaghetti" at 19:34 is a trumpet interchange

  • @kiradotee
    @kiradotee 2 роки тому +12

    Some much more road content now that Andrew drives. 😂 I appreciate that.

  • @Nintentoad125
    @Nintentoad125 2 роки тому +9

    There's a row of streets in my city named after the Middle East: "Palestine Street", "Jerusalem Street", "Damascus Street", "Cairo Street"...
    I live in Belfast, ages away from the Middle East. Still no idea why they're named that way

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  2 роки тому +22

      maybe they named the middle east after the streets in Belfast

    • @jdms2830
      @jdms2830 2 роки тому +1

      @@ibx2cat It's the americans who do that not the middle east

    • @Playing096
      @Playing096 2 роки тому +1

      Here in Brazil we have tons of streets named after countries: "Finland Street" "Uruguay Ave" are two I know

    • @David-we4mf
      @David-we4mf 2 роки тому +1

      @@jdms2830 what

    • @jdms2830
      @jdms2830 2 роки тому

      @@David-we4mf the americans are the ones that copy place names

  • @HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman
    @HannahHäggAutisticTransWoman 2 роки тому +4

    We here in Stockholm, Sweden literally have a highway right though the city center which I think is stupid.

  • @marcor815
    @marcor815 2 роки тому +3

    The flyover at 6:20 is just one directon, because (if I read the map before it in the video right) it conects two exits next to each other.
    The opposite direction of the flyover doesn‘t need to change level, because you have no conflict except padestrian if you just add a lane on ground level. The direction of the flyover would cross the other exits of the roundabout if it was just an additional lane.

  • @jann3663
    @jann3663 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for the low quality videos we know and love. My day was great. I just got my first diamond tool on my flat world I started last week.

  • @pistakrk4888
    @pistakrk4888 2 роки тому +1

    I woke up at like 11am with huge hangover and spend all day traveling to my home and making stops at varius foodchains to try calm my tummy ache. After which i vomited, luckuly home. And then spend some qulity time watching at roads i have never seen i country where ive been twice. Also got haircut by my frind :)) Very,, very productive day.

  • @abishekawanninayake8227
    @abishekawanninayake8227 2 роки тому +1

    Well, it’s “tomorrow” today and I’m loosing faith in your words. I had an ok day at work and I agree that living in a place where you can walk anywhere easily is great and that’s what I experience every time I go to work.

  • @ThunderboltYoutube
    @ThunderboltYoutube 2 роки тому +2

    Cant lie, before I saw this video, my day was okay but inconsequential, but now after finishing the video, its been a great day

  • @SillyCreatureOwO
    @SillyCreatureOwO 2 роки тому +6

    dang, I thought this was turning into a channel with actual money spent on it, but thankfully, i was wrong

  • @DanceLaughXO
    @DanceLaughXO 2 роки тому

    I just found your channel (idk how I didn’t find you before because I’m a giant map nerd) and I’m obsessed with your sense of humor omg

  • @BrianH1313
    @BrianH1313 2 роки тому

    Oh thank you. I've come so accustomed to the high quality of this channel. Glad to see it at same level as it always is When one goes on holiday, it best to travel light. It nice to have a Pub near by.

  • @Pining_for_the_fjords
    @Pining_for_the_fjords 2 роки тому +1

    I enjoy driving but there is no way I would own a car if I lived in London. It's too slow, expensive and stressful. I've driven through London a few times recently, and it's always such a relief to leave the boundry of the M25.

  • @Transitional
    @Transitional 2 роки тому

    About the M4 - America has that all over the place - usually not residential but other zoning on major arterial roads, sometimes derogatorily called "stroads" (portmanteau of street and road)

  • @eclogite
    @eclogite 2 роки тому +1

    16:30 - my town has a few residential streets this narrow, and I find they're some of the most pleasant streets to exist on precisely because the cars are forced to go very slowly

  • @ajinkyamehere5365
    @ajinkyamehere5365 Рік тому

    Oh I just love it when Toycat tries to look something up in the map desperately to prove a point, but fails miserably! 🤣🤣 Also, when he sees something strange instead, and is so intrigued by it and then goes on to ramble about it, to the point that his original conversation is now completely incoherent. This is exactly the bottom-barrel content that I whole-heartedly love! 💕

  • @Nooticus
    @Nooticus 2 роки тому +1

    One of your best videos in a long time. Legendary! Also, I love when your videos get real at the end, so based!

  • @switzerland
    @switzerland 2 роки тому +1

    Coming from the Tesla community here, I love that video. Self driving cars will have an insanely hard time in Europe. That video can be the start of a funny series. I have some funny ones on Switzerland too.

  • @garbageguy4245
    @garbageguy4245 2 роки тому +1

    MY DAY WAS OK THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

  • @jaycee330
    @jaycee330 2 роки тому +1

    12:41 Yeah, the 30 sign fell off the pole, it's for people entering the village, obviously.

  • @joew957
    @joew957 2 роки тому

    @Toycat, you should checkout the roads in Hamilton county Indiana. They have the most roundabouts in the US and even celebrated National Roundabout week last September. They also have a road where you drive on the left to avoid left hand turns that cross traffic.

  • @than217
    @than217 2 роки тому +14

    I was worried about this channel improving the content, but this video reassured me that some genuinely bad content would still make it through.
    Keep up the ...bad work.

  • @AndyZach
    @AndyZach 2 роки тому

    My day (a Saturday) went delightful. I watched this at the end and went to bed with a smile on my face.

  • @corbin5392
    @corbin5392 2 роки тому +1

    So glad that quality will not be improved. I thought I might have to actually start watching IBXrealDog again! I couldn't do that.

  • @yousefnoori
    @yousefnoori 2 роки тому +2

    This video was so interesting and entertaining!! It'd be lovely if you did this for every city you drive in!

  • @karl2673
    @karl2673 2 роки тому +2

    19:36 that's a stack exchange, named so, because it needs 4 levels of roads. A cloverleaf interchange has 4 loops for left turns (right turns for the UK) and is the most basic system interchange out there.
    You know, highway/motorway interchanges are a quite interesting topic to talk about, especially when you get to something like the diverging diamond service interchange or the braided system interchange... or the single-point urban interchage... honestly, I like them all. Well except the cloverleaf, that one sucks.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG 2 роки тому

      We don't have diverging diamonds over here to the best of my knowledge.
      Most Irish motorway junctions are two small roundabouts and a single bridge, instead of one big roundabout. The traffic doesn't justify the expense of two bridges.

  • @b.y.2460
    @b.y.2460 2 роки тому +12

    Roundabouts are the best option if the roads leading into it have low enough traffic that the roundabout can fit all of it at once. As soon as the sum traffic on the roads leading in is more than the capacity of the roundabout, ALL of the roads leading in will backup and come to a standstill. When there are no gaps left in the traffic in the roundabout, traffic entering has to come to a complete stop, which then means they need a bigger gap to enter than if they were merging at speed. This then makes the roundabout worse than a 4-way stop in terms of traffic flow. So when that happens, the logical solution is to turn it into a traffic light controlled intersection. Traffic lights impose gaps in each direction of traffic and thus allow all directions to flow at a metered rate. In places where it is predicted that traffic will increase beyond a roundabout's, capacity it makes more sense to save the cost in both money and land to just not build them. (There are lots of Cities Skylines UA-camrs who debate the fine points of this argument, if you want to go down that rabbit hole.)

  • @generaledelogu1892
    @generaledelogu1892 2 роки тому

    I worked today and then got home to watch toycat videos of varying degrees of quality, time very well spent

  • @georgiancrossroads
    @georgiancrossroads 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks for keeping the quality down to snuff! We don't come here for the fancy graphics and editing.
    We come to hear you say 'Helloouu. I'm Toycat' And woocum back to the second channel video.'
    But you know what? Second channel. Don't care.

  • @TheMightyKinkle
    @TheMightyKinkle 2 роки тому +2

    9:37 That was much funnier than it should have been 😂😂😂

  • @zonaryorange8734
    @zonaryorange8734 2 роки тому +2

    When you zoomed into Los Angeles you zoomed into the busiest junction of highways in the whole city perhaps even the country, the East LA interchange! It’s not much to boast about though, especially given the history of the freeways in Los Angeles. That little neighborhood is known as Boyle Heights, in the 1960s it was sliced up with freeways. They weaved together 4 freeways with 3 interchanges in a neighborhood of around 17 square kilometers. Officials at the time destroyed the city’s most diverse neighborhood despite heavy protest. Meanwhile, the affluent areas had the rich folk complain one time and their neighborhoods were spared. History did not favor Boyle Heights :(

  • @gerrit2409
    @gerrit2409 2 роки тому

    A not too dissimilar example of the first thing - where a highway runs off into a city and there are driveways - happens in Vancouver! If you look where Highway 99 runs through Richmond heading north, it’s a proper highway. It crosses a bridge, and suddenly becomes a neighbourhood with million dollar houses and driveways and stuff 😅

  • @jaycee330
    @jaycee330 2 роки тому +1

    Well, the NSL simply means that it's derestricted (not having a set speed limit sign), but it doesn't mean obviously you must tear down a one-track road doing 60, not if you value your life and others.

    • @zoutepindas6128
      @zoutepindas6128 2 роки тому

      people need to learn to act responsibly and safely without daddy government holding their hands

  • @panda_panda1149
    @panda_panda1149 2 роки тому

    If you want to see some weird intersections, go to Plac Szwedzki in Poland (Janki, near Warsaw) theres a highway above a roundabout

  • @IaHarbour
    @IaHarbour 2 роки тому

    massachusetts has a lot of rotaries and a lot of weird ones (one even has a hotel in the middle, which is also above a highway)

  • @Eavolution_
    @Eavolution_ 2 роки тому +1

    To be fair the A1 in NI is horrifying, 70mph main road that is basically a motorway with none of the safety and a lot of essentially just roads with left turns onto it without any sliproad or anything

  • @james.strong
    @james.strong 2 роки тому

    My day was great because I saw an Ibx2cat video and went on a 35km cycle ride.

  • @rajbhai87
    @rajbhai87 2 роки тому

    I can't remember if you showed this before but show everyone the Katy Freeway. This is a section of Interstate 10 (I-10) between Texas Hwy 6 in Katy TX to Interstate 610 (I-610 or West Loop) in the western portion of Houston TX. I believe the widest portion has up to 26 lanes of traffic with at least half of the lanes bumper to bumper for several hours a day.
    You could make a full video on this freeway alone and how it's a perfect example of induced demand. Even the Wikipedia page for induced demand has a picture of the Katy Freeway

  • @joewatson3386
    @joewatson3386 2 роки тому

    2:19 I’m just casually watching a toy cat video and I find the pub that I went for lunch the other week 🤣🤣

  • @samuell.foxton4177
    @samuell.foxton4177 2 роки тому

    The first road is not a motorway at that point, it’s one of the 1930s era arterial roads with 6 lanes that are the main roads out of London. Some other cities also have similar roads

  • @mcbella78
    @mcbella78 2 роки тому +1

    Took dog Cisco for a walk and finished beating the game Rive.

  • @Jonathan-ki4iz
    @Jonathan-ki4iz 2 роки тому +10

    A roundabout with traffic lights is called a Traffic circle. Keep up the good work! :)

  • @alfred.d.g
    @alfred.d.g 2 роки тому

    Actually Toycat, I have had a pinic in that roundabout with the A201 and the A2. I had prawns and a banquette

  • @James-zs3vm
    @James-zs3vm 2 роки тому +1

    i had a good day today

  • @AslakAsp
    @AslakAsp 2 роки тому +2

    Ibx2cat is the only channel that would have a thumbnail like this

  • @nielsreyngoud2870
    @nielsreyngoud2870 2 роки тому

    Spent my day driving some narrow roads in Wales!

  • @simonsays3465
    @simonsays3465 2 роки тому

    Awesome fun video...love the pubs and menus..amazing lot of roads dont have lane markings like here in the US. Thanks

  • @oaxtec765
    @oaxtec765 2 роки тому

    We have the same road with issue in New England, and yet for some reason all the roads are 2-way

  • @RobDEV
    @RobDEV 2 роки тому +1

    Thank god that the low quality content with continue with great quantity

  • @corbin5392
    @corbin5392 2 роки тому +1

    Today I had a friend over after I was at a pot luck. It was sandwich themed and there were all different kinds of meat. Some of them had maonays on them and I didn't like those as much but the lettuse helped out a bit.

    • @s7nseer
      @s7nseer 2 роки тому

      No emoji expresses how this comment makes me feel 🫣🫡

  • @briocheoleary5043
    @briocheoleary5043 2 роки тому

    Check out the Clitterhouse Estate next to Brent Cross…. My friend used to play on the clitterhouse playing fields growing up, lol…. Apparently a clitterhouse is a place where you bake clay

    • @gurrrn1102
      @gurrrn1102 2 роки тому

      you know that's not what a clitterhouse is

  • @sandstorm9305
    @sandstorm9305 2 роки тому +2

    Don’t worry about the quality, it’s the second channel, he doesn’t care

  • @kasnickijakub
    @kasnickijakub 2 роки тому +1

    My area in the UK has many roundabouts

  • @johnmc67
    @johnmc67 2 роки тому

    The key to transport is options. Here in Detroit, where the car is king, people have been agitating for decades for more options, and all we’ve managed to bring about is a downtown looping elevated tram, and a 3.3 freedom unit main drag street car. BTW, you should visit Detroit (Sept/Oct is best). Easily the most interesting place in the US.

  • @aurionson
    @aurionson 2 роки тому

    My day is going alright, brewing coffee while finishing a batch of bread, thanks for asking Cat.

  • @batrick
    @batrick 2 роки тому

    So I didnt do anything special with my day just getting ready for next semester, but I'm watching this video at 03:40 AM and drinking some tea.

  • @ft-rj
    @ft-rj 2 роки тому

    Huh, I live right by that square wide roundabout, walked on it today! The flyover (as everyone calls it) is fun... the buses (53) go on it too, top deck is fun. "A201", aka Old and New Kent Road, the only way people in South Bermondsey get to anywhere fancy...

  • @Troppau
    @Troppau 2 роки тому +1

    Toycats American 'accent' is golden

  • @boredgeneral770
    @boredgeneral770 2 роки тому

    I am very glad that the budget for this episode did not exceed 23¥. I was getting worried that the quality of videos was getting too high, and no, I will not tell you about my day

  • @comentaristax9804
    @comentaristax9804 2 роки тому

    22:30. I remember when local politicians in my city cut all transport to the city center during Pride. There was also and independent system but that one got easily blocked by police cars (brt)

  • @kazriko
    @kazriko 2 роки тому

    I guess that's the downside of creating rural pathways before cars existed, then trying to turn them into car paths. Our rural roads are much more likely to be at least 1.5 cars wide, usually 2 to 2.5.

  • @pilotd89
    @pilotd89 2 роки тому +1

    I was driving down a one car wide road (both directions) and there was a no overtaking sign😂

  • @Ronald.Golleher
    @Ronald.Golleher 2 роки тому

    10:50 you should look at the I-30 and I-35E interchange in downtown Dallas. Called the Mixmaster

  • @Rryki
    @Rryki 2 роки тому +1

    My day was not bad

  • @jarjarbinks6018
    @jarjarbinks6018 2 роки тому

    13:22 That road is smaller than the biking trails in my town lol

  • @randallflagg9498
    @randallflagg9498 2 роки тому

    Realistically, the top speed on some of them country roads is less than 20mph, sometimes even less.

  • @OwenP26
    @OwenP26 2 роки тому +1

    My day was good, I had an orchestra performance, it went very well. Today was also the first school day in Germany, so it was ok, teachers are good (I'm 11.grade)

  • @MEUProductions
    @MEUProductions 2 роки тому +1

    I had a okay day. I spent $1,100 on doors for my house and mowed my lawn. Owning a house in the United States is grand.

  • @reddwarfer999
    @reddwarfer999 2 роки тому

    Love the way this just rambles on to random shit!

  • @qooqle
    @qooqle 2 роки тому +1

    The M4 and A4 merge there so thats why you suddenly see houses

  • @seankuhn6633
    @seankuhn6633 2 роки тому

    Im here for it! :D also check out santa cruz california for the craziest roads on the west coast of the states! Legend says that the city planners were on acid when they developed the road network becuase of course california of course!

  • @EmelyPhan
    @EmelyPhan 2 роки тому

    The highways here in Canada are pretty much the same size as the ones in America but with different units.

  • @loganpeters7543
    @loganpeters7543 2 роки тому +1

    I went to the beach and got sunburned.

  • @pspence9569
    @pspence9569 2 роки тому

    Isn't the Mall, pronounced will one 'l', also an airstrip for emergency evacuation? Or is that Constitution Hill? Loving these videos!

  • @raustaklass
    @raustaklass 2 роки тому +1

    My day yesterday was pretty good, I'm leaving for college today so I spent one last day with my family
    There I remembered to tell you about my day, happy?

  • @TheDuked
    @TheDuked 2 роки тому

    Bumping into horses on country roads are the worst, they don't corporate as well as a car does

  • @KOZMOuvBORG
    @KOZMOuvBORG 2 роки тому

    9:06 I was visiting in 1976 and there was a full roundabout in front of Buckingham Palace then.

  • @balexbalex815
    @balexbalex815 2 роки тому

    As someone who has lived in Wiltshire ally life I was shocked that you were shocked by the existence of passing places

  • @kenji4330
    @kenji4330 2 роки тому +1

    i watched the video right now, if you want to know what i was doing yesterday, i was playing video games, what i did today was to also play video games, but i think today i made the decision to quit hypixel skyblock, because that ate like 400 hours out of my august and july, i think you know what that is since you have a minecraft channel, anyways, i also ate some pasta for dinner, that was nice

  • @mskrisp15
    @mskrisp15 2 роки тому

    Who doesn’t love dumpster diving for content?! I also actually lolled at 20:05. Maybe I’m just a dumb American but is the most famous intersection in London not the one at Abbey Road??

  • @briocheoleary5043
    @briocheoleary5043 2 роки тому

    Come to Hemel Hempstead and see the daddy of magic roundabouts… lol. 6 minis around a big un…Swindon only has five

  • @mitchellwalker9839
    @mitchellwalker9839 2 роки тому

    I love how the advert at the end of the video was to do with cats. Despite the fact I don’t own any cats.

  • @DavidSolimano
    @DavidSolimano 2 роки тому +1

    Yesterday was pretty good, has a pastrami omelette and did endless chores around the house while praying for rain, how was your day?

    • @ibx2cat
      @ibx2cat  2 роки тому +1

      I went to Costco and bought far too many sausages

  • @josericardogs1435
    @josericardogs1435 2 роки тому

    Having the house at the motorway is VERY VERY VERY common in Brazil,