Secrets of the Motorway - M74

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The M74 is a motorway that runs to Glasgow in Scotland... No, I'd not heard of it either, apparently there's a whole other country attached to the North of England... who knew.

In this weeks episode we'll be starting the process of working our way round the motorways across the mightily fine Scotland. There's much to discuss, such as neighbourhood gang warfare, old steelworks, viaducts and old junction designs. Thrilling.

In this series we 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 aims to uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer.

[dankicks]

“Nothing gets through fences as well as local youths”

The amount of truth in this statement cannot be disputed 😂

[ethzero]

Wait, hang on... A ghost slip road that got eventually used! 😮

[astra]

"Back in the day, when road-planners couldn't care less about anything.." It's quality writing like this that keeps us happy, Jon.

[dangerousandy]

Loving the Taggart theme 😂 No Mean City

[willtricks]

I hitched to Glasgow and beyond a couple of times in the early eighties, once we were picked up near Carlisle by a Scottish lorry driver who was an amature opera singer, his practice spot was from Gretna Green onwards whilst driving he sang in Italian a full hour then stopped at a services ate a huge dinner while we watched hungrily. Back on the road never said another word.
Still dropped us off in town, top man.

[TheCabrooster]

Especially like the Scottish specific theme tune and it’s good to se that road planning/ construction up here is as abysmal the rest of the country 😂 and the Taggart theme must always be followed by “ There’s been a muurrder!”😂😂

[stevewilson]

Hopefully the famous ski ramps will be covered with the M8 - now that's going to be a fun episode!

[daviemaclean]

The M74 extension, in my opinion, was much needed as it cut out the diversion onto the M8 through possibly its busiest section at Townhead. When I used to go up and down to Newcastle on a regular basis, it saved me about 30 minutes per journey.

[jonathancook]

The m74 south of Abbington is an amazing bit of civil engineering, it goes over such harsh and wild terrain!

[TheGoodShepherdsSheep]

Definitely the most random thing I have watched this week but well worth the time spent 😂

[DKane]

If you look on street view at the DVSA weight station near Biggar, you'll see an M6 South road sign on the exit road.

[aetch]

I'm surprised you missed the "M6 South" sign at the DVSA Weighstation (Southbound) exit between junctions 14 (Crawford) and 15 (Moffat) when you did the M6 bit.

[kierangoddard]

Great to see some Scottish motorways covered.

[MartinvonBargen]

This was even more fun than the comic section of a 1980s Sunday Post!

[tripnick]

Great use of Taggart theme music for the Glasgow episode.

[groeacht]

You could do a full video on the B7076 and B7078, those are the remainder of the old A74 dual carriageway.
Its practically a motorway and almost abandoned, and theres plenty of completely abandoned parts of the old single carriageway Telford road.

[albertperks]

Nice inclusion of the McTaggart sound track - "thurz bin a mareder".

[FatherDraven]

I'm a yank that's been watching all your vids for a few months and I still have absolutely no idea how your road system is actually supposed to work but I know I'm never trying to drive on it.

[SimonProctor]

Looking forward to the M8 even more now.

[davidhall]

I remember before jct 12 was amended for the A70 to go under it, previous to that the 74 and 70 were a crossroads and it was like whacky races getting across it 😱