There brilliant. 🤣

Even when they are horsing around they are good.

it'd be funnier if he got startled into the water

I think that the videos are all a cover for Jon looking for dogging areas

@@gbhxu 😂

My parents have witnessed a full on road rage battle between a van and a Birmingham driver. The biggest risk of accident is some pair of twazzocks deciding that their respective journeys are the most important and escalating from cutting each other up to side swiping and shunting

Surprisingly it was a taxi....

​@@linamishima If that was in the roadworks on the M5 northbound past Oldbury about seven years ago, that may have been me and some absolute arse in a Renault Master hi-cube thing (they're on the shitlist along with silver Corrollas/Avensi and any Toyota minicab - they universally seem to be driven by either psychopaths or wannabe X-wing pilots). Needed to pull out ahead of the on-slip gradually coming up ahead (because it was just a give-way going straight into the left lane) and he decided it would be a very fun game to stop me from doing it... accelerating and braking in concert with me and there wasn't enough space to get up enough speed. Eventually figured that if I booted it as far as I dared then pulled full ABS emergency stop once he followed suit I could swerve into the gap that would be behind the van at the last second and end the stupidity. I was off by, what, maybe an inch? And my bumper still bears the scars. (We did come off at J1 to assess the damage and he tried to make a song and dance about his very slightly bent - and rather dangerously sharp and sticky-out - rear lightbar, to which all I could do was motion at my bumper, point at the dashcam, and suggest we swap insurance details so he could then go tell his boss that the van got very slightly dinged because he was playing silly bastards in heavy traffic. Funnily enough his details turned out to be fake and nobody ever contacted me about the incident) There seems to be a smattering of that kind of murder-suicidal gimp out on the road these days, more commonly come across them when going to overtake a slow moving car on a single carriageway road and suddenly find that my needle is going up but I don't seem to be accelerating past them. Nor that my brakes seem to work even though the needle goes back down. And it's why I now have front and back cameras because that proves I didn't get past, and the even worse behaviour if I do manage to get past due to e.g. a tractor hoving in view with them unable to pull around it until I've gone by it...

Well, that's Brummie minicabs for you. You learn to leave a fifty metre exclusion zone if at all possible. Most of the other drivers are OK, apart from the aforementioned force-users and van nutters, and the universal boy racer (to whose dangerous acts the council's main defence seems to be ... lowering 40mph speed limits down to 30 for the everyday folk. Yeah, that'll show 'em... now when they go past at 100 they'll be speeding by 70mph instead of 60! Yeah!) That said there does seem to be a noticeable increase in general traffic speed when coming back into the area having taken a trip elsewhere...

@GeoWizard pleasantly unsurprised to see you here

Literally about to click and watch your transatlantic cable video... Love your videos too! Also, Auto Shenanigans x Map Men when?

Brum! For those not in the know! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZp7f9lo3rXKg4E.html

Jon is the unspoken 3rd Map Man!

@@ActualJarrrk Yeah Jay, you really should do the trunk routes to the Greater London borders episodes as you started with Geoff Marshall on the A1. 👍

It has taken far too many years for me to realise Brum was named for Birmingham, and I've just learned the car's name (and 'Brummie') comes from the local name 'Brummagem'.

You’ve been on KZfaq for a long time

Most of the time, you are doing well to hit 50mph at peak times. More likely to be crawling.

@@egbront1506 ye, but it would make it at least safer, but well, in typical politician cliché one cost money, the other cost life and money is more important >_>

Absolutely! I think this every time I have to drive that way.

Exactly what I referred above. Must remember that road zipper.

No need. We can drive properly in Britain

This was doing my head in all night and today trying to remember what kids programme that music was from thank you so much for relieving the torment 😂

At the time it was built people probably did sit there and watch the traffic. After all people would go to service stations for a day out to watch the traffic.

One of the leaders (idk if it was the mayor), wants the expressway closed on Sundays so people can walk/bike on it. Who tf wants to do that?!

Am I correct in thinking the red lane is banned for motorcyclists? it's been many years since I drove along there.

Er the central drainage channel is still clearly visible in the video, along with signage prohibiting motorcyclists from the centre lane (see at 6:00) because of the drainage channel.

That’s true.. guy went into a manhole after the cover came of in the middle lane on motorcycle 💀

The drainage tunnel is literally still there and it’s still forbidden for motorcycles to use the central lane

There are very few accidents on the A38(M) and there have been hardly any head-on's.

He's done a video about that.

BTCC is track touring cars, the RAC rally use to go through sutton park but i don't think they close any roads in the eighties better to have a series of drag races - like the illegal one on the bypass

Nice one, thanks for watching mate!

I absolutely agree, I’ve driven it from Sheffield to Gloucester once for a laugh (I was going that way anyway), it’s an interesting road

@@linamishimaYou've done well to do it from Sheffield given it starts about 30 miles south 😂 I get what you mean though. Haven't driven quite that far on it, certainly never made it to the A38M, but I used to go down to Wolves just about every weekend a few years back (so I wouldn't peel off at Lichfield/Swinfen like the A38 does). A38 has always been my chosen route down that way. Bit of a pain given it's mostly 2 lanes down that way, but certainly better than tempting the M6 to throw an issue.

Jons reaction when they hit 10k was fantastic as well

@@BaguetteBeardBass Haha yeah, with an impressive emergency stop!

hehehe.. thanks for watching, and it's all for a good cause, I was pleased to be invited.

I was just thinking of the optimism of a 50mph limit 😂

@@DigitalDiabloUK It's regarded as a minimum speed by most of the users.

I thought it was called that just because it went through Aston.

I have lived in Birmingham all my life and live over the road from spaghetti and have never Hurd it be called the Aston distress way 😂😂

​@@JaidenJimenez86 That made me chuckle, I guess you could be right 😁

When the Severn Bridges had tolls it amused me that you paid to get into Wales and could leave fee of charge, whereas at Saltash, it was free to get into Cornwall but you had to pay to get out.

There's a short section of tidal flow in Cardiff too.

It's a shame they haven't done it on the "old" A38 (IE what is now the A5127) from Gravelly Hill up to Erdington. That's 3 lanes and could hugely benefit from full length tidal flow (at least when it was possible, before a particular and somewhat dumb pedestrian island was put in place as a cheaper alternative to a proper crossing and re-engineering the roads that face each other across it to prevent unwise attempts at anything but a left turn or, say, making them entry-only one-ways (which is now the only sensible direction to drive along them anyway). Instead it's more like the 2+1s being built around Wales, you enter it with a single lane your side and then halfway along it swaps and flares out (...though if you're heading into town it randomly drops back to one lane for about ten metres just to cause a whole load of unnecessary bottlenecking chaos). Better than nothing but it'd work a lot better if the whole length was dynamically dedicated to the direction of greatest demand.

Isn’t there a tidal section somewhere in Lincoln? Not exactly a big A road tho

@@regularguy3665 Well, now it's time for Google Maps

Nice one mate, thanks for watching!

got to be black pudding/potato scone doubler with HP sauce do I hear yum yum wsa…

I dunno, never seen an Interstate without hard shoulders (sometimes on both sides) like a UK motorway does.

@@jaycee330 hard shoulders aren’t the issue. It’s the super short on and off ramps; on ramps that join in the fast lane of the highway; off ramps located immediately after an on-ramp (beltway in DC repeats this beauty again and again); bend radii that make no sense for a “highway”; advertising causing distraction; barely fit for purpose signage and a complete disregard for safe distances between various features. Add to this, laws that allow passing in the slow lane and do little to encourage safe following distances and you literally have a beautifully designed system for ensuring accidents.

@@user-qn6yt3zx3w That's interesting. On the continent they have much shorter slip roads. You barely get any warning and there is your turning!

well it was hardly a surprise…

the phrase “A38 (M)” has lost all meaning for me

Or in other words: no change from normal.

No doubt a hotspot for escorts and prostitutes.

It's all i know it as, didn't know it had a 'proper' name!

I was just scouring the comments to find someone saying this 😀

I've always heard it called Matalan roundabout

Nice one, thanks for watching mate!

Safe most of the time yes.

That is not busy or insane, busy and insane are during rush hour when the m6, a38m and adjoining roads are a carpark.

Nice one, thanks for watching!

Yeah eastbound is a little bit fiddly, but it's not too bad, if you follow the signs. My mom has tales of it before it had all the signs in place, but unsure how accurate those stories are!

@@KidarWolf There is a bit you can miss that can send you up to Gravelly Hill instead of M6 Eastbound but again, it's a case of paying attention and getting into the correct lane _early._

There's a similar system on the Auckland harbour bridge in New Zealand, which is 4/4, 5/3 or 3/5 lane configurations, and has a massive truck thing that drives along it moving the barrier from one lane to another. Another fun fact is that this bridge was originally 2/2 lanes, and at the end of the 1960s, they added 2 more lanes on each side with some concrete sections bolted onto the side of the bridge, and these were made in Japan, which gave rise to the nickname "Nippon Clip-ons".

I think it's Adelaide that had the ultimate tidal flow motorway. 10 miles of single carriageway that changed direction twice a day. On a weekday it was into the city in the morning, out of the city in the afternoon, with a couple of hours closure to turn all the signs round and sweep for safety.

@@himagainstill Oh Adelaide! Does it still have that crazy bus train thing, where the buses have tires on the side and they disengage the steering and let the bus bounce between the two concrete walls as the driver floors it? That was a fun experience when I was there in 1999.

The Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society operated Majestic Coaches here in central Scotland until I think about the mid 70s, our local depot, Barrhead now housing…

Central Coachways ceased to exist many years ago.

Double it up and do the Hemel one in the same episode?

He could do High Wycombe’s one too whilst he’s at it. There are loads of these roundabout of roundabouts dotted about the country.

@@explorernate I've only experienced those 2, I thought that was it. New thing every day 🙂Swindon seem to make more of it, I guess they don't have much else 🤣

Looking forward to secrets of the magic roundabouts, featuring a random passer by as Florence and Jon as Zebidee :)

You mean a dream. I would love a city to look like this. With little shops and neon signs dangling underneath the concrete structures, the flyovers themself shielding the pedestrians from rain and the weather. Just like in Asia. To bad they didnt use Bangkoks beautiful brutalist hexagonal designs for the construction :)

@@Mongolopolis8 was thinking more of the more modern urbanist's who are less car centric than the brutalist traditionals

@@user-op8fg3ny3jI'm fine with the concrete flyovers -- just not all that traffic

@@gregs2284 If someone finds flyovers scary, don't go to Dallas or Houston...

Or a road planners wettest dream!😂

I don't. I went to a school nearby and the smell of HP mixed with the Ansell's brewery practically next door was anything but nice. It was culinary smog.

@@egbront1506 i bet the students there are half drunk from those aromas...

@@PrograError It wasn't a heady whiff, unfortunately. Individually, brown sauce and bitter are quite palatable depending upon your likes and dislikes. Mixed together it honked like some other brown substance. We just ran for cover when the brown mist descended.

@@egbront1506 "....we just ran for cover when the brown mist descended..." I didn't know that Birmingham suffered from Poonamis when the factory was open. 😁

Not far from there is the Old Custard Factory (Bird's, 1906 - 1964), nowadays a hipster hangout. In its time, did it have a similar effect on the neighbourhood?

It's not really, both words are derived from Brummagem an old dialect name for Birmingham.

@davidholden2658 you say "Royal Sutton Coldfield" don't you? I should've said Brum the car was a reference to Brummies. Genuinely thanks for the info.

I did know that Brum was another name for Birmingham, or for Brummie's, but it took me years to specifially realise that the little car called Brum was named that because he was supposed to be based in Birmingham. To be fair I'm not very far away from Bourton on the Water, which has a motor museum where Brum is actually kept, which originally featured in the first and last scene of every episode, along with it's real life owner, and which I visited as a kid at the time (and met the owner), so for me at the time the question of where it was supposed to be based was probably an open and shut case, as it was obviously set in Bourton on the Water as far as I was concerned.

@MrDannyDetail great story that. I've nothing intellectual to contribute sorry, I just remember the crank handle spinning when he was happy!