Secrets of The Motorway - A167M
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
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This week we're in Newcastle taking a look at the inner city, urban, A167M... The short motorway that has it all. Abandoned sliproads, ghost sliproads, cancelled plans, dangerous junctions all within a little over a mile. How exciting! Not only that, it's all squeezed into an impossibly small space, you'd barely notice the motorway...sort of.
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 - Авто та транспорт
Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good week?
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I have no idea how I happened upon your channel, but I love it.
Have I ever been to these places? No
Do I even live in the country? No
Your humour, alone, is enough to keep me watching.
Keep up the great work sir 👏🏼
Fun fact!
There are in fact no unexciting episodes of Secrets of the Motorway.
There was a plan for one, coincidentally about the A617M. The script was written, shooting locations selected, drone batteries charged - but then a change in the council meant the funding disappeared, and the new council found the original script had been buggered up royally. So they cancelled that video, and used the funds for a newly rewritten script which was much better planned and yet somehow makes it effortlessly seem that stuff just happens, which is crazy when you think about it.
Overall it's pretty wicked sweet awesome.
Thanks again Jon, and have a great week!
And how the devil are you?
I like this and so I have pressed the button specifically for that 👍🏻
A167M is pure infrastructure porn. I used to live up this way and going straight from bridge into tunnel into double stack motorway (all thanks to Newcastle's gorgeous topography) always gave like cool dystopian Metropolis vibes.
Also, the fact that a council decided to funnel money into the metro instead of building roads back in the '60s/'70s blows my mind. And thank fk they did!
Often get people being forced to cut across 3 lanes in that underpass section
Speaking as a Geordie, i'd like to thank you for reviewing our part-time carpark, and i hope you had a pleasant visit
I suppose due to the part time carpark nature, those dangerous junctions could be slightly more manageable. 😂
@@rogerwilkinson2192 once a year it's closed completely - the only time it can be described as safe!
I lived in Newcastle for a few years and had to use the A167M all the time and I always thought who created this wackiness? Mental and shrooms did occur to me too. There's some more mental roads over in central Gateshead too. Also I miss the Metro it's mint.
That merge as you come south from Gosforth is ****ing terrifying!
Yes I can vouch for that 😂. The only thing us southerners have similar to this is under the A40 at Paddington but it's nowhere near as terrifying
@@eddie7167God I hate that bit of road!
That "ha ha" at the end of Byker Grove theme has haunted me for years
I love ALL episodes for Auto Shenanigans but for whatever reason, I REALLY loved this one. Perfectly scripted and edited, entertainly and interesting and made me laugh out loud. Twice. Also contains *spoiler* the actual Byker Grove and the theme tune complete with the 'famous' three laughs at the end. Not sure you can top this one Jon!! 🤘
I'd completely forgotten just how Ma-Ma-Max Headroom the Byker Grove theme tune sounded.
Another hwicked sweet awesome video Jon, reminding us again that once upon a time civil engineers had ambition...
Don't you mean fwicked :)
Thank you, you don’t know how long I’ve waited for someone to explain how that mess of an urban roadway came to be.
I drive on it, at least a couple of times a week, and it can be baffling .
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As someone who came to Uni up here, of the four junctions, three are dangerous in at least one direction between merging, crossing and poor junction design. Its such a short road to have so many terror causing sections
Love the architecture note at the end. Great video as always!
Thanks for finally exploring Newcastle’s favourite death-trap! What a fine piece of road it is!
Another motorway based oddity in the area is that Haymarket metro station was originally constructed in a way that it could have been used as a pillar of a planned but never built urban motorway.
It was originally a low circular structure but was rebuilt in 2008.
Merry Xmas Jon
I didn’t realise that about the Haymarket although I knew about the old bus station in Eldon Square possibly being on the line of one of them
I’m glad the plans were never completed as it would have destroyed much of the city centre but at the same time it’s mental that all this was planned to start with
Awesome video! My fave part of this crazy road is if you are coming from the B1318 from Haymarket station and heading to the coast road A1058, you have to merge onto the A167m from the right in the underground bit, then cross 3 lanes of 50mph traffic in about 150m to get to the coast road slip road! So dangerous and such a rush every time, I love it and would go out of my way to use that route when I lived in Newcastle 😂
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Wicked, Sweet, Awesome 👍
"Conceived after a night on shrooms" .... Story of my life! 🤣
Thanks Jon, for another exciting episode of Secrets of the Motorway, some light relief after what I've been up to this week.
What have you been up to ? Do tell us 😁
I work in education so Secrets of the Motorway is the only thing between me and a fatal dose of drain cleaner.
Another weird thing about the A167(M) is that you can cycle from the Swan House roundabout and take the next left, staying to the left all the time. That lane is not part of the motorway. Has to be the closest you can get to a motorway without being on it. Which makes it even more weird. It's also quite a challenging gradient coming off, part of the Great North Run route one year (when South Tyneside didn't want runners coming through due to their covid regulations).
Try cycling on the A27 south of Havant. 4 lanes each side with a hard shoulder. I did it back in the 80s. Never again!
@@rogink I did it in the 90s it wasn't any better. I was cycling from Brighton to Shaftesbury (as you do) and several drivers beeped me on that section of road because they thought I was on the motorway!
Jon’s a national treasure
One thing the esteemed road planners on Tyneside did get right - as a van driver, I am seriously impressed by the replacement of bus lanes with "no car" lanes. Keeps road usage efficient
I think they're all gone now, converted to bus lanes. The only no-car lanes I can think of now are in sunderland
@@chickenfizz Oh bollox... it's been a while. Too good to last
Thanks Jon. Its a complete horlicks. I drove along a large part of it earlier this year (I may have mentioned it on one of your previous vids) and I concur with your analysis that the planners must have spent the weekend on shrooms. A more bonkers bit of incomplete construction thats still in use will be hard to find.
But don't let it Bovril you
When you eventually run out of motorways it would be cool if you did a video on the A55 AKA the North Wales Expressway, there's loads of cool oddities to and around it plus it actually has a number of motorway class/regulation sections on it though they aren't numbered A55(M), for reasons.
Has he done the wonderful M56 yet leading to the wonderful A55? I can't remember.
@@antonycharnock2993 I thought he did all the M-something motorways before starting on the A-something(M) roads.
I bet the next episode of Secrets of The Motorway would be the A194 (M) and then the series will conclude with 2 parts of the M25.
This brings back memories of being a child in the back seat of my parents Austin 1800 in the ‘70s on trips from home in mid Hampshire to cousins in Newcastle. To you, the A167(M) might mean questionable local government decision making and dangerous junctions (alright, I’ll give you that since my aunt had a car written off at one), but to me it will always mean the imminent end to travel sickness, I-spy and sibling squabbling, and the resultant realisation that there may be a god after all!
A round of applause for that shot at 1:04, brilliant. Was kinda hoping for the Get Carter theme as the outro but I get that Byker Grove would be a more popular choice. Still shudder at that paintball incident..
He can't see man!!!
Absolutely bonkers! Great vid Jon!
Been looking forward to this one!!!
Awesome stuff Jon
Nice Jon 👍🌟Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻to you and family . Merry Christmas 🎄🎅🏻to everyone else watching Jon’s videos.
And you, Mark. 🙂
Been waiting for this one 😊😊
Thanks, Jon. That curved brickwork has interesting lines. Biggest point here was about the Metro - which is very welcome, and I'm glad we are not always slaves to the motorway.
Fantastic! I lived with in Windsor Terrace Newcastle Uni accomodation in 2017 and spenty days travelling home terrified of the sliproad that joined of the road on the righthand side of the motorway or from manors carpark. Great to see Newcastle finally mentioned on the channel!
Ditto, but 2000-2001
How can anyone claim to be university educated, yet use a phrase such as "joined off" & even then manage to spell it incorrectly?
@@ashleyhoward8926 Pedant.
Another great episode, thank you,👍👊.
Yes Jon! The moment I’ve been waiting for, what a time to be alive!!!!
Nearly die merging on this beauty at least 5 times per week …
Hi Jon, hope well, another great motorway episode ,take care
Lived in Newcastle for a few years for uni and always felt this road never made sense. Glad it’s made its way onto the channel and really fun to see places I walk past daily! Cheers Jon!!
Brilliant Jon, thank you. I said a while ago you should do this motorway as its completely bonkers and this video captures that perfectly. My personal favourite from the entire series 😍
So much fun to see familiar streets on the channel! I’ve crossed that hectic motorway roundabout on my Deliveroo shifts countless times and lived to tell the tale
Excellent. We all eagerly await whatever excellent Christmas offering Jon has managed to dream up....
Been waiting for this one 😂 Been a local off and on for years, my missus (from London) is frankly astonished (terrified) by how much happens, traffic crossing on and off, in half a mile or so!
I was waiting for this. Nice to see you're finally here. 💀
Ow what a piece of history there, biker grove !!!
Thank you Jon
I remember my first time on this motorway a few years back. I was stunned. Jon is correct, stuff just happens.
5:50 - I did wonder if you were going to get to Byker Grove - and you did! Don't bother with the Baltic Exchange, the Gateshead Glasshouse or Grey's Monument :D
Best video yet 👏
Yay, been waiting for this one
The bypass Road would have met up with the Gateshead flyover. You can see the alignment when you're on the flyover.
Almost glad they didn't go ahead with that one specifically as it would have towered over the Tyne Bridge and blocked the iconic view
Thanks for a wonderful video.
The big claim to fame of the road must surely be its use as the start of The Great North Run.
Lovely acoustics in the tunnels for anyone shouting “Uggi! Uggi! Uggi”
Jon I appreciate how well you're putting your videos together, your production is genuinely really good! Thanks for the hard work and dedication!
Nice one, thanks for watching!
Before the motorway was built the A1 used to pass through central Newcastle. Most long distance drivers knew to head for the Tyne Tunnel to avoid that pinchpoint. Less than an hour after the motorway opened the zebra crossings in Gosforth, just North of Newcastle became impossible to use due to the weight of traffic using the new route. The drivers also saved on the tolls for the tunnel. The A1 was redirected through the tunnel to get the traffic away from the city.
I don’t know how you make something that would otherwise be quite boring so entertaining. Your script writing and presentation is great. Thanks for entertaining us and I wish you and yours a very merry Christmas and I can’t wait for your 2024 videos
Another wicked sweet awesome video. Thanks Jon
My home town! Hope you went out for the night in the Bigg Market.
Great vid.
Nice one Jon, my favourite motorway there (as shown by my profile pic on here 😂)
Re the closed slip at Camden Street, that was another clue to the Central Motorway (East) Bypass and would have most likely just linked to the Coast Road.
The Newcastle plans are absolutely insane and it’s amazing what you can find of them around the city if you know where to look
Just a word of thanks to you. I'm a vicar, so the "How the devil are you?" is probably someing I shouldn't like ... but I do. Every Sunday it makes me smile. Keep up the good work. You mixture of facts. humour, and sarcasm is really refreshing.
I like it too. It's a great figure of speech and considering the alternative might be the overused F word it is both polite and charasmatic at the same time. Another example would be in
*The Great Escape* where the Australian says "How the devil should I know?" when today the film would more than likely go again for the swearword. On other figures of speech, I am quite happy to instinctively say "Thank God For That" as a natural part of the language, without necessarily intending to say "Praise The Lord".
Brilliant episode thank you
Jon always a joy to watch thanks and a Happy Christmas and look forward to more videos in 2024
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
Amazing channel. I have enjoyed every video I have watched!
Come to York and do a video on our abandoned inner ring road scheme that would have decimated great swathes of the historic streets and buildings. I have all of the plans and drawings.
Happy Christmas to you and yours John
Good to see a sensible critique of the A 167M my life is now complete. It's a real challenge to navigate that motorway after 5am ......maybe 4am
So good i watched it twice as the comedy is so good ;)
Great episode John!
Of all the inner city motorways I think the A167(M) is my favourite purely because of how wild and nonsensical it is 😂 driven it a few times and every time I do I feel it’s as close as you can legally get to driving off whilst off your face! Thankfully the motorists of Newcastle are amongst some of the most patient in the country, I guess you have to be with how wild the roads are without an added dose of ego and rage.
One of the best yet mate, I love these inner-city motorways… Particularly the 60s brutalist concrete sledgehammers. So much more interesting to view and drive than endless M1 and M6 mid-section monotony. That closed slip has come up quite a lot lately on Ghost Slip Roads and Roads to nowhere on Facebook. I think the gates give it a lovely post-apocalyptic feel
Yes!!! I've been waiting for this one. Thanks so much.
Us locals know all about the sliproads on the right hand side..it's pure madness this road for visitors. My advice to anyone visiting and using this road if you're coming north across the tyne bridge from Gateshead stay in lane 2...the sliproads coming onto the a167m are very short. Not only staying in lane 2 helps avoid accidents but you're more prepared to take those right hand sliproads towards jesmond and/or gosforth. If you're heading north past the city centre to cowgate filter back into lane 1 when you're past the city centre as it opens up to a 70mph road.
Anyone else hang around right to the very end to hear the Byker grove 'haha, haha'?
On my doorstep there Jon, great video as usual! Night on the shrooms!! 🤣🤣🤣 👍
awesome video
Merry Christmas jon. 🎅 🎄
Loved it. Hope to see more around tyne side and the North East. You Legend.
Ah brilliant I was waiting for this one. It really is a mess, and you have to be fearless when coming from the west along the A167M to join the A1058 under the double decker section.
Awesome video
God, I thought some of your other videos in this series in other urban areas are bad but this is just bonkers!!!
Genius. These get better every week 👍👍
You forgot to mention skybridge walkways which was partly built in that project and was abandoned part built as well. Nice to see you oot & aboot in the toon 😂
At the top of the A167M is one of very few motorways which has
a slip road joining in the fast lane
Its chaos and dangerous
yep, I used to negotiate this frequently. Coming North out of Newcastle on the Great North Road, if you want to get east on the A1058 coast road, you have to join in the fast lane, in the darkness of the lower deck, with limited visibility due to traffic approaching around a bend. Then you need to cross from lane 3 to 1 in a short distance, whist traffic is trying to join from the left side slip road too. Bonkers!
@@shm5547 Have done this myself many times over the years , yet to see an accident there, though I have needed the brown pants a few times
Woohoo! Hope you had a good time mate!
This is the beauty of UA-cam and long may there be space for legendary characters like Jon!
I loved this video so much I watched it twice! Byker Byker Byker Grove, yeah! Have a great week!
That car park looks brilliant. Form and function! Love it❤
awesome, sweet, fwicked
The Byker Grove theme tune took me back! I'm convinced John could make an interesting video about anything. Brilliantly scripted, witty, sharp and essential viewing. Cheers!
Almost spat my tea out when you said about Biker Grove
Loved Byker Grove back when I was young.
We are absolutely thrilled this episode has appeared now! Merry Christmas fella! 🫶🏻
driven that section loads along with the old junction now closed. as a young driver who hadn't driven motorways and city centres much was a real learning experience and likely made me the skilled driver I am today!
Hope you have a wicked, sweet, awesome Christmas Jon. Gotta love that 1960s concrete :)
Thanks a lot mate, happy new year!
Vaguely remember that junction being closed, around the same those student flats were built. Always assumed they were a factor too.
The A167m is absolutely insane. Trying to get from Barras Bridge to the A1058 involves crossing everything and moving across 4 lanes of 50mph traffic in about 300 yards of space
Yes, I'm sure the student buildings and redevelopment of the Warner Bros cinema area were the main reason for this being closed. Whilst I agree with John that it's "f*ing stupid" that explanation doesn't really cut it because the exact same situation applies to the section almost directly underneath it.
great video jon! maybe i'll come visit newcastle with it's great youthclub one day
That's it...I've seen me Jago Hazard and now me Auto Shenanigans...my weekend is complete.
I’ve had a shit week at work, plus sore throat and mild Man Flu all weekend, the missus has been away, the dishwasher’s broke ( and back-up gone away 🤣), endured a 2-hour carol service in the local church because my kids were in the choir… until this. Thanks Jon, you make it all worthwhile.
It's, *cool whip!*
Drove through there (southbound) for the first time a few years back, felt like I'd gone down a one of those crazy pool slides by the time I was dumped out on the Tyne bridge.
Thanks!
Thanks very much mate
Driving home for Christmas in Newcastle with my family this evening, my wife and I are scheduling our entire trip from the South of the UK so she doesn't have to drive on the central motorway scissor junction at Jesmond Road.
I think that was the maddest bits of road you’ve reported on Jon?! Crazy. They were definitely on shrooms back then lol
Great video