#infrastructure #motorway #m27
This week I kick off in Hampshire and the New Forest where we find the start of the M27. I’ll be travelling the length of this, perhaps, unfinished motorway and taking in the sights along the way such as the two odd motorway spurs.. the M271 and M275.
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.
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My home patch. I knew about the missing J6, but thought that the extra long slips on J8 were for another Junction (8a?) that never got built. Interestingly, I found an old planning map recently that had the Portsmouth M275 motorway going much further into the city (to Bradford Junction, as it's known) than it does today, but of course it never happened.
bravo my home town portsmouth
I've been caught several times heading east past Portsmouth on a long drive, only to find the right hand land I'm in disappearing as the M27 merges in to the M27 (for a few more hundred yards) with almost no notice the lane just shrinks to nothing.
I was told that broadbands lake was the result of the motor way ( they needed gravel ) ……?
You do know there are motorways up north you seem to only cover the ones down south
Entertaining as always. I would like to propose junction 22 of the M5 as the tightest curve on the British motorway system. A quivk estimate on Google maps gives a radius of under 250 ft. I think this is tighter than the M27.
my city 🔥
I'm gonna dive straight in as an ex-Truckie you should try the A428 joining the A1 northbound with a full 44tns out of Felixstowe Only go there because of road closures as I had to in the middle of the night I was a night driver luckily I never had to carry containers very far I used to shunt them from Ely railport to Peterborough but they sometimes could be overweight which you never found out till your first roundabout
@ 1:50 ooh noo laddie lots oh stupid university trained people can't spell antidistablishmentarialism
6:06 Jon, if you ever make it up to Scotland, I wonder how this compares to the M9 westbound/M90 Northbound junction 1A, surely a vivid memory for all Edinburgh based motorsport enthusiasts on their way to Knockhill.
If you were to come to Scotland, you would find it is wickedly tight, but widely spaced and therefore thoroughly capable of scaring passengers or entertaining young racing obsessed lads as my father always did to me. If you came to Scotland you could recycle the footage from one M9/M90 video for the other, as a true thrifty Scot would do. If you came to Scotland.
Obviously you could probably figure this out from your house in your underwear in your office in the garden but you should come to Scotland Jon. Do the motorways up in Scotland Jon. Jon, come to Scotland. We have macaroni pies. Jon, when are you coming to Scotland?!
I do think that the M27 Motorway should of extend from Portsmouth to Chichester and possibly as far as Brighton and to Poole. But that never did happen and is only a short motorway that goes from Portsmouth (M275) to Southampton where it becomes the A31 towards Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset.
And plans to build a new A27 bypass with a viaduct to pass over the River Arun and avoiding Arundel. Also I do think that the new slip road on the M27 at Junction 10 north of Fareham should be built to allow traffic coming off the M27 from Southampton and M3 onto the A32 towards Alton. Instead of going via Fareham.
1:15. I see about 6 of the friends houses there.
So cool to learn about my local area (J7) and the motorway I drive on everyday, thank you!
Annoying, another outro I recognise but cant recall!
Shame that curious sliproad’s days seem numbered. Blimey, what a tight one! 😮 Not dissimilar to the one to join the eastbound A13 from Tilbury Dock via the A1089 (I know it’s not a Motorway but hey 😜)
The M27 gets regular use by us as we love holidaying in Dorset, usually via the M3 but sometimes taking the ‘scenic route’ on the A3 to pay a visit to The Devil’s Punchbowl for a half-way brew ( which always strikes me as a far better option than just sitting in a service station full of the echoes of disgruntled screaming children, disgruntled screaming adults and the overwhelming waft of McD*n@lds additive feasts 🤔). I had a friend in Portsmouth too who’s flat was right by the end junction on the M275 which was always rather handy. Not very interesting really, but I have to fill the tragic voids of my pathetic existence somehow 🤷🏻♂️
Your sense of timing is splendid by the way 🤣
Cheers! 🍀🍻👍
The A627M from Oldham to Rochdale has a roundabout in the middle of it as it passes over the M62 (j20). It even has space for the flyover which they conveniently put a weighbridge smack bang in the middle of
The Port Solent entry to the motorway is a great corner to learn car control. It tightens just before straightening up, so if you got too comfortable going around with a consistent left turn, you're in for a little surprise.
The sail thing on the m275 is nowhere near as the random crane that never moves. When storms blew over not long ago it was scarily close to the m275, but I'd be distraught if/when it eventually goes.
been waiting for this episode !
The bit of A27 past Drayton & Farlington has a footpath running alongside it, I think this is why it can't be a motorway.
It’s funny how j10 didn’t want people to go into fareham but they still do 😂
The turn to join the M271 from Redbridge roundabout is the tightest turn across the Motorway network. It was mooted that the nearby Redbridge Towers be demolished to allow the M271 to be extended into Southampton, but this was objected by residents and the M271 now joins the A33 into Southampton and is a permanent traffic nightmare for residents and visitors to Southampton alike.
Captain pugwash great video thanks greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
the m271 is almost just like interstate 180 in wyoming
Clayton Brook Interchange where the M65 crossesover the M61 has a roundabout under motorway rules, though it isn't quite the same as the one in this video because it is on it's own seperate/middle level.
Incidently the exit form tthe roundabout at the 11:oo oclock position is one a stretch of single carriageway in motorway rules. tThere were a couple of others up north previously but they have been declassified to ordinary road status
I believe the stretch of motorway between 5 & 7 which pass the end of the runway at Southampton airport was the last section to be built because not only does it come dangerously close to the runway threshold, it also limited the future ability to extend the runway. It should have been a tunnel but was too close to the river Itchen which runs past the east side of the airport and under the motorway.
A massive missed opportunity not extending it westward through the forest in the 70s/80s. Bournemouth area suffers for it greatly. No doubt Bournemouth Airport and Port of Poole would be more successful with a bonafide connection to the M3. The M27 should extend to Wimborne with spurs to Bournemouth and Poole, then it would be a proper Solent Highway.
I'm sorry if this is your thing but I found this mind numbingly boring to the point I felt compelled to watch it to see if there was a punchline.
There was not
The reason why they put the motorway to 60mph going in and out of Portsmouth, was because there was a fatal accident in 2005, when a car went over in to the water and killed the driver and the crash barrier impaled them and put them in the back seat, I remember it like yesterday I was in a school called waterside, which is called harbour view, I remember hearing the crash and within a few months after the accident the motorway went to 60mph, all so the sail thing which no local likes it's vile, is or was called tipner sails and there was a light that project on there from businesses, so you could advertise your business ect on there, love the video, always wondered why there was no junction 6
A500 onto M6 northbound at Jcn 15 is a very tight curve..
I also seem to remember that the short(ish) section of A27 dual carriageway that links the M27 with the A3(M) will stay an 'A' road because, officially, it's the Cosham bypass.
Hey John, I don't know why your channel is so compelling but here we are. I live 46 miles from the closest motorway, Interstate 10. Amazingly it's only 2,460 miles long. It only takes around 40 hours of driving to go end-to-end. Thanks for the videos, John
"For some reason this didn't happen"…. My guess is the adjacent constituency wasn't a member of the governing party at the time…. Budgets are always linked to politics in one way or another!
If you like tight corners on motorway sliproads there’s a pretty awful one at A1M J64 in Washington (near Sunderland)
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Am wondering why this stuff isn't on publicly funded media?