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  @iantwigger23 сағат бұрын

  Why did I feel like I was waiting for a Jamiroquai song to start at the end of this vid?

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  @jasonbennett7002Күн бұрын

  Of all the pointless things on the internet to watch this is by far the most pleasant. Thanks Jon!!

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  @FinnDeaconКүн бұрын

  Thanks Jon, I have driven along this road so many times and never knew it was previously a motorway. You’re right, now I know why there are hards shoulders. That road can be so very dangerous when the sun is low. There are also some dangerously short slip roads along it. It has to be closed so many times because of collisions Another great report. Thank you again 👍

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  @FinnDeaconКүн бұрын

  Thanks

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  @bettyswallocks6411Күн бұрын

  The last time I was in Hemel was in the last century. I remember it because it was a Friday, I had a hot date that evening, and the distributor of my fairly new car decided to make a bid for freedom and fall off. While driving around a roundabout, but not this one. This was in the days before everyone had a mobile phone, so it was a while before the AA got there, and I couldn’t contact the hot date, which became a cold shoulder.

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  @grumpylimey4539Күн бұрын

  Blimey, I was driving that just a few weeks ago, thinking it was an odd stretch of road. I was also stood on that bridge ... spooky.

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  @seanrodgers1839Күн бұрын

  Motorway archeologist

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  @daveoftheclanburgessКүн бұрын

  From memory, there was never a two or single lane connection to the A41 at the eastern end. The bridges remained out of use for 25 years and any traffic westbound went past the end of a stub embankment on the south side up to a roundabout that led under the out of use bridges and entered the motorway section up a one lane slip from the Wigginton roundabout. Eastbound traffic came down the slip before the bridges and joined the roundabout on the north side. The original alignment plan to the motorway toward the railway and canal where it was intended to go the other side of the River Gade valley and Berkhamstead rejoining the current alignment near Bourne End. If you look to the east of the original motorway junction you might see (if using Google Earth aged views) the is a lush green bank with dots on it next to a large farm house. That was the original carriageway the was abandoned as the bypass was extended, curving sharply right as you come off the original bridge eastbound (the realignment also lost the hard shoulder on the east bound bridge to ease the curve a bit). The lust green area had the road bed removed and was turfed, the dots being newly planted saplings.

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  @lewismerrifield3621Күн бұрын

  I lived in swindon, and what they've done to white Hart round about is just as much BS 😂😂

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  @evertonshorts9376Күн бұрын

  What is the bridge at 1:08 for? It doesn't connect anything.

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  @badbob1982Күн бұрын

  The word “roundabout” has lost all meaning.

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  @whyyoulidlКүн бұрын

  Hey MNIJ, thanks as usual. That's my midweek fix of motorway creamy goodness sorted 😀

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  @katelightsКүн бұрын

  Hi Jon, can you do a video explaining the differences between an A road and a Motorway, for those of us outside the UK?

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  @Erakius323Күн бұрын

  To solve traffic, give people better ways to get about that dont involve driving. Upgrading the train network perhaps? A high-speed rail linking the major city's of the UK, even?

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  @jacksonmacmanus1001Күн бұрын

  do more of these secrets of a hidden motorway, make this a series

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  @leopold7562Күн бұрын

  Ooh, I'm going to be in Tring in July, I'll keep an eye out for that

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  @eamonquinn5188Күн бұрын

  It's like a major road in Ireland or Spain, mostly good

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  @fredyellowsnow7492Күн бұрын

  Couldn't give a monkey's nut about Swindon, the locals in Hemel refer to their own as the Magic. Both shitholes anyway, so who cares.

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  @pelleskanal7660Күн бұрын

  Looks like a go cart track…

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  @martinploughboy988Күн бұрын

  The stretch of A41M around Tring was great for checking my motorbike after I'd done some maintenance.

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  @rkyadiusКүн бұрын

  Another great video! Secrets of The Hidden Motorway A14(M)!! I would love to see what you've got to say about this because it's a hidden motorway on certain maps where the A1307 lies as well as in theory the 'new' A14 linking the M11 to the A1 was built all under motorway regulations but no motorway signs.

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  @SlyPstmnКүн бұрын

  I drive this road daily. Loved hearing more about the history of it!

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  @danielfreeth9025Күн бұрын

  I would hate to see the mileage on johns car

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  @darthdzlКүн бұрын

  Awww...I was looking forward to hearing the old music. But nice video, sir, as always!

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  @Dan23_7Күн бұрын

  I have driven on this a few times, I always think the bridge design was nicked from the M62. Cheers Jon 👍🏼

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  @arthome2441Күн бұрын

  Wow! I was driven twice on the A41, I never knew of it. Thank you for sharing.

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  @chriswilliams3345Күн бұрын

  I love your droll style of delivery. 😊

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  @L.A.T.E.84Күн бұрын

  A good one to look at is how the A34 from south of Bicester to Winchester is not a motorway despite being run by highways England.

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  @duckydashcam751Күн бұрын

  It's not a Sunday...is confuzzled

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  @michellewalsh1970Күн бұрын

  Got pretty tipsy watching this.

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  @bertoltb1358Күн бұрын

  Just when you thought Jon had covered all the Motorways, he only goes and finds another one! Well done.

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  @oconnell88Күн бұрын

  Intellectual as always, thanks Jon

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  @phildaly3561Күн бұрын

  Have vague childhood memories of the weird starting slip for the A41M, as well as later memories of using that stretch to achieve legally inadvisable velocities in a 1.1 Fiesta Popular Plus.

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  @howardtayloresq.Күн бұрын

  Another eh?

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  @alancx523Күн бұрын

  Never knew a motorway could be only two lanes

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  @sylviodante619Күн бұрын

  I lost my Virginity in market Rasen. Good times.

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  @martinhowe1422Күн бұрын

  Ahhhhh, I see what you did with the Outro there.......very clever, you really are getting quite deep aren't you?

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  @simontaylor2319Күн бұрын

  What about the sudden end of the MI at Brent Cross - a story to tell?

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  @simontaylor2319Күн бұрын

  Now say that again without mentioning the word A41 more than once

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  @colinmaynard2879Күн бұрын

  I still remember the M10

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  @ajokayКүн бұрын

  "hard shoulder weight all know and are used to" *laughs in 'Smart' Motorway*

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  @robinwells8879Күн бұрын

  John popping back to tidy up loose ends. More wonderful trivia! Don’t governments have short attention spans?

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  @jonathanjennings4232Күн бұрын

  I remember driving on the A41M just after passing my driving test it was a joke of a motorway, my dad took me on it once on his vintage motorbike not something to do today on a motorway unless you had a death wish.

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  @AGMTB.Күн бұрын

  I travel down this road everyday and now it makes a lot more sense that sections of it are the way they are!

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  @loopwithersКүн бұрын

  A very British solution: avoiding making a fuss and also coincidentally reducing maintenance costs while increasing the need for packed ham sandwiches

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  @notrutКүн бұрын

  Aylesbury popped up on your map .... Which reminded me of the awful Tory MP David Lidington ... Even more awful where the Aylesbury Sex offenders, Jailed for 82 year.

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  @jamestanton7424Күн бұрын

  A short sub series is needed to cover secret or extinct motorways, for example M10, A102(m) and A40(m)

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  @Trevor_AustinКүн бұрын

  I used to thrash along this road on my way home from work - I mean really thrash. I used to live in Berko.

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  @charlespollock1269Күн бұрын

  '"m assuming at some point a jet fell on it" made me buckle

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  @oliverstemp9132Күн бұрын

  It’s so exciting when JON covers your local road.