The M11 Motorway's Bridge Over Nothing... What's The Point?

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In this video, we look at a bridge that doesn't really do a lot. There's mention of the famous London ringways motorway project or scheme, so maybe that's got something to do with it, that's usually the case when it comes to main roads or motorways in London. In this case, it's the M11 motorway, not usually associated with being a London motorway but things weren't supposed to be this way...

[TheRip]

"Lessons have been learned so such things will never be repeated" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[t.kersten]

at least animals could use that "mystery bridge" to cross underneath the motorway from one side to another

[YetAnotherGeorgeth]

Welcome to England, where we start great proj

[stephenfoster]

However, the result is a vast open space beneath the junction safe from the danger of traffic. What a bonus.!

[neilbain]

It's left a nice bit of park land below so maybe that's something.

[markiliff]

1:04 Jon: Back to the studio
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[janhenkins]

"... never be repeated ..." What a quaint thought, eh? We never learn here in the UK. Great video Jon! 🙂

[markoarkaina]

The editing on this channel is so underrated.

[granddadmark]

Loved the old movie tone office clip 😅😅😅😅

[Cypher]

“Shall we just not bother?”…. 🧐 So inspiring..

[davidmilne]

“Of course, lessons have been learnt “Eloquent sarcasm at its best. Plus excellent editing too. Thanks Jon!

[qingyangzhang]

My father used to be an auditor of several road and bridge projects in China. On some of the projects he examined, there are stretches of dozens of miles of elevated motorways and high speed rail on perfectly flat rural land. According to him, there are two main reasons. One is that maintenance would be paradoxically easier, because the amount of subsidence due to the vehicles' weight would be much more predictable, especially on peaty lands. The second is that there is a much lower natural limit to cutting corners when building bridges.

[roderickmain]

"big infrastructure projects that get started but never Yeah. seems like we learned that one (HS2 <cough>)

[christopherdean]

I used to live just up the road from this bit of the M11. Made for a relatively quiet place to walk on a nice day.

[lawrenceshackman]

When I was a boy (rather a long time ago now) I was keen on becoming a civil engineer and luckily my sisters friends dad was the lighting engineer responsible for the lighting for J4. He took me on a trip there back in the day ( let me turn all the lights on and off😀) and showed me the plans for the completed junction! Well they were amazing! if built would have certainly challenged spaghetti junction in terms of scale and complexity. M12, M15 slip roads and viaducts everywhere. Shame I wasn’t given a copy of the plan as I would have shared it here…. And yes I did become a civil engineer….. Great vid as always John!!

[yankees]

South of France. Long bridges like these. Great. Because sometimes it rains.... It will flood all.

[binarydinosaurs]

Well, there we go. Having driven that stretch for nearly 20 years I finally discover why it was built like that. Nice one Jon, button for liking this very much clicked.

[mep]

Interesting situation and I have no doubt in your reasonings. Here in the US over the past decade or so major road construction has taken into account natural habitat movement (feeding, water and migratory) routes for wildlife. So in newer road construction it is not unusual to see occasional elevated sections apparently over open land.

[NooBiker]

I'm a local and use this slip road quite often, to/from the A12/A406. Thanks for the insight.

[RogerNorman-qx]

'Lessons learnt will never be repeated' ... now there's a poignant statement given the ongoing situation with HS2 north of Birmingham! We never learn other than how to waste billions of pounds