Secrets of The Motorway - A8M

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This is the shortest motorway in the UK. Ignoring Ireland (for now)
It's really short.. so short you'd wonder why it ever existed... luckily I have the answers. It's mostly down to formalities but it's an interesting story I promise. Other interesting things include balanding ponds, a bridge and even a stretch of abandoned road. Who knew the shortest motorway was hiding all of these secrets.
Me.
In this series I 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 will uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer.

[@AutoShenanigans]

I'm not sure how a video on the shortest motorway ended up at 7 mins long.

[@circadianizzy]

But it proves you're a genius.

[@charlottelarimore9261]

You chosen it

[@James-gf9jl]

Thats 1.4 seconds per meter. So, that is probably well above average.

[@Claymore927]

I missed the video on the ponds so padding it with that explantion is much appreciated.

[@okiecokie]

you could probably drive the length of the motorway at least 10-15 times in the length of this video

[@AndreiTupolev]

Managing to get a 7 minute video out of a 300 metre motorway must be the highest video to motorway length ratio yet recorded 🤗

[@AutoShenanigans]

I think it might be.

[@sambarker7930]

I wonder how many times you could drive along the A8(M) whilst watching this video

[@welshdave5263]

​@@AutoShenanigansRandomly, I views your comment when it was displayed as 7 mins ago. So I started watching this video as you made this comment.

[@zackaplowitz]

@@sambarker7930Including the time spent for both roundabouts, Google Maps says a round trip would take 3 minutes. So could drive the length of it about 5 times in the 7 minutes.

[@sambarker7930]

@@zackaplowitz cool!

[@tommyr7105]

My wife saw me watching this on the TV and she actually sat down to watch it and standing at the door for a bit. That is the highest honour any content creator could wish for.

[@AutoShenanigans]

If it passes the "mrs" test then I'm onto a winner!

[@stephenyates962]

There's only 1 man who can make a 7 minute video about a 300m stretch of motorway, and his name is Jon. Keep up the good work, it's a rather interesting series

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks for watching!

[@paulsengupta971]

Is your name Jon? You should have mentioned it.

[@AdamFahn]

​@@paulsengupta971I like your comment and wanted you to know. It was wicked sweet awesome. I noticed there is a button specifically for that so...

[@davidtraynor8075]

I dunno how you've managed to get 7 minutes out of 300meters with more interesting content than half the crap on KZbin. John, I salute you 👏

[@AutoShenanigans]

hehe, cheers mate

[@Claymore927]

As a truck driver in Scotland I've been along that bit of road hundreds of times and never knew some of this stuff! Thank you!

[@andrewthorne6653]

Yeah agreed been traveling that but of road 5days a week for the past 4 years

[@jerryjones8513]

Same here!

[@AndreiTupolev]

If there's a new Jago Hazzard, Secrets of the Motorway 🛣 can't be far behind

[@tradeplatetravels]

Love your channel. If I ever pass a man standing in a field at the side of a motorway and waving at the sky, I'll know who it is :)

[@dave_h_8742]

I think I passed his Volvo parked below where he was waving bye on the old railway to sourhport above Switch island. Merseyside M57 and M58 junction.

[@Dan23_7]

@@dave_h_8742 Southport mate 👍🏼

[@AdrianDowthwaite]

@chrissilk163 you made me laugh, that is a whole new twist on the classic game of "I spy with my little eye... something begining with J." "What? J!" "Yeh, a man standing in a field at the side of a motorway and waving at the sky. Called Jon, I spyed a Jon."

[@margaretbarclay-laughton2086]

​@AdrianDowthwaite ah but was it the original original john😊

[@S.ASmith]

@@AdrianDowthwaite it's like a game of Where's Wally He probably feels a right wally standing in a random field at the side of a busy motorway at times though

[@johnclements6614]

The balancing pond will also treat small amounts of pollution to a limited extent. The microbes in the pond will break down some of the hydrocarbons from minor discharges before they flow into the local stream. If it is too much and the alarm is triggered then it is better that the pond dies than the stream.

[@AutoShenanigans]

interesting, I wasn't aware of that.

[@dave_h_8742]

Hate it when your having a minor discharge and the alarm goes off😂

[@frankmitchell3594]

And it collects salty water run off in winter

[@mickapps3153]

I wonder how many “alarms” are triggered or is it another waste of money in the name of eco

[@johnclements6614]

@@mickapps3153 Fish do not respond well to petrol and diesel. I like rivers that are alive it also makes it cheaper to treat the water to drink or otherwise use.

[@David_Crayford]

Before boldly presenting the pond, I was eagerly expecting that tiny turning to be part of a plan to build a big service station.

[@bikeforever2016]

Somehow the convolutions of these short link roads are way more interesting than the big motorways. The twists of having to solve problems with limited resources makes intriguing watching.

[@chrisshelley3027]

Nice vocal malfunction there, pleased you kept it in. The bit about water run off was also interesting, if Thames Water were in charge it would be full of shit and cost a lot more to do nothing about.

[@AutoShenanigans]

hehehe, handled it like a pro I thought :D

[@ethzero]

Originally I'd take a drink 🍷 everytime John would say in a video, "originally" but for this video, like many roads in the UK I'm going to abandon that it!

[@FrazerSmithsChannel]

I am surprised you managed to do so much filming near Coatbridge and didn't lose your car. And camera. And drone.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Must have been "gyro" day, it was fairly quiet.

[@Firecul]

The mature zombies don't make it that far out normally 🤣

[@FrazerSmithsChannel]

@@Firecul Haha, that will be the Bargeddie Buffer Zone

[@ptonpc]

You're slipping, you managed to pronounce some of those names almost correctly :P I remember the chaos and mayhem while the new M8 was being built. At parts there is a concrete dividing wall built between the two directions. On the first day of it being officially opened a car hit the wall hard enough to bounce back across the lanes, scattering bits of vehicle everywhere.

[@Species1571]

The wall should be getting repaired any day now.

[@ronniel5941]

The large roundabout at Baillieston is 2631 feet in circumference - it was designed not long before UK highway engineering went completely metric on January 1, 1968 - except for the distances shown on signs.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Well that's some top motorway facts right there.

[@ronniel5941]

@@AutoShenanigans Thanks - I was involved in the design, as you might have guessed !

[@southcalder]

The roundabout also partially replaced one of my least favourite junctions in Scotland - the 6 way traffic lights outside Morrisons where the A8/A89 used to cross paths along with two other local side roads. The junction is still there, but the A8/A89 crossroads has been moved now and the A89 is subsumed until the large new roundabout on the far side of the Bailleston Interchange. Which has improved the flow substantially.

[@Boating_David]

Disappointed by the lack of services on this motorway 😝

[@dxg999]

You should have visited Sturgeon's (infamous) house. It's in one of the estates right by there.

[@leewakefield8658]

It's kinda a shame that some of the most bizzare motorways no longer exist, RIP A6144(M) and A601(M)

[@hairyairey]

But now we have the A1307(M) and A14(M)!

[@AutoShenanigans]

The A14M didn't really materialise.. good story that.

[@hairyairey]

@@AutoShenanigans westbound end of the A14 goes to either the M1 or the M6. After junction 1 it is by definition the A14(M). Fairly sure there is a non-motorway traffic sign before junction 1. I already had this discussion with the Highways Agency before the rebuild of the junction and they agreed. I will copy and paste their email response in later.

[@AutoShenanigans]

@@hairyairey I believe the entire A14 is under "special regulations" that are more restrictive than a typical A road in line with motorway regulations. there's a whole story to it but I haven't quite got to the bottom of it yet. The A14 is a bit special.

[@hairyairey]

@@AutoShenanigans Taken from an email to me on January 22nd 2010 "Dear Mr Airey In response to your concerns regarding the proposed improvements at M1 Junction 19 we comment as follows. A ‘ Statutory Instrument ‘ will be put in place to prevent non motorway traffic from using the A14 westbound beyond junction 1. This will form part of the draft Order publication procedure which is scheduled to commence shortly. There will be an opportunity for the public to comment and if they feel fit, object to the proposal." If that doesn't make the west end of the A14 into the A14(M) what does? I also just checked on Google Maps and the non-motorway traffic sign is there. Scorecard decking resold is the what 3 words location. I used to use the old Catthorpe Interchange regularly it was a nightmare. The A14 is a mess, that's what it is. The misguided busway was supposed to reduce traffic on it, it hasn't. The closure of the "Varsity Line" at the end of the 1960s (not a Beeching closure incidentally) severely reduced rail freight across the country. Dismounts soapbox...

[@craig.bryant]

A8(M) is cursed to be small. In Northern Ireland there’s another A8(M) and it too connects two roundabouts with no junctions in between!

[@countyantrimman]

Theres the M12 aswell it terminates into a single carriageway which i find really weird

[@WerewolfLord]

That's the one I was expecting.

[@craig.bryant]

@@countyantrimman aye at Craigavon. In fact all of Northern Ireland’s motorways are odd. The M3 is literally just the Lagan bridge, the M2 is in two parts, one just the Ballymena bypass. It’s really just the M1 which is normal!

[@portlandfester7510]

So interesting didn’t know motorways had such ponds you are the best at making videos hope you never stop

[@Dan23_7]

He covers them in a video, if you ever spot “PCD” on a little green sign on the hard shoulder, that’s what it’s indicating to 👍🏼

[@TheColonelSponsz]

I have driven up and down this motorway on one occasion and that was purely so that I could say I had driven the shortest motorway in the country.

[@neilbain8736]

This highlights the difficulties beautifully of the last section of the A8 becoming motorway from the junction for Motherwell to Baillieston. The alterations and duplications to segregate non motorway traffic were huge, so it wasn't done for decades.

[@TyredFormat]

John: Im going on holiday in scotland Family & Friends: Thats great where are you visiting John: All the motorways. All of them. Family & Friends: To get to the lochs... John: ALL OF THEM.

[@joandchrismarchant1080]

Each week for the last month or so i have thought 'M90 this week' and you keep coming up with more motorways!

[@user-io1yy8zv3w]

Great! Love to see an episode on the M90!

[@Craigevansagain]

The motorway regs roundabout for the Slattocks Interchange of the A627(M) also has a pond nearby it as does the trumpet of M6 J38 at Tebay. Its amazing that at least a small stretch of A8 has had at least 4 all-purpose generations plus the 2 current motorway versions in this area.

[@ashleywebster2659]

OMG, 420 seconds for 300m of Motorway, you could have walked its entire length giving a commentary as you go in that time 🙂 Also, just noticed you are getting dangerously close to that 100k subscriber mark - vindication of a great idea and content, keep up the good work!

[@garypoulton7311]

This is really squeezing the lemon for every drop, yet interesting, well done John.

[@geecars6263]

I’ve never heard of balancing ponds - fascinating

[@jennythescouser]

Some guy in Romania built a ONE metre long three lane motorway with hard shoulders on his land. This was a protest against the Romanian government's failure to build a decent road network. - OOOO - nearly at 100K subscribers ;)

[@qwertyTRiG]

I've had the Skye Boat Song stuck in my head all week, and then meet it again here.

[@inarc_]

I've just noticed the bagpipes in the intro for all the videos relating to Scottish roads 😂 Great added detail

[@AutoShenanigans]

It was specially commissioned just for the Scotland episodes :D The tune doesn't exist anywhere else but here! :D

[@darrenaitcheson795]

For a fleeting moment, I thought you’d finally made it to the A8(M) in Northern Ireland.

[@darrenaitcheson795]

Also, you need to do an episode on the M12 in NI, complete with roundabout in the middle of it, with a *footpath* included.

[@AutoShenanigans]

I do hope to get to NI.

[@kirkhamandy]

98.5k !! so close! Cheers dude, loving seeing these motorways up near me

[@AndreiTupolev]

I'm hoping the 100,000 subscriber special will be the M25 😮😢😊

[@AutoShenanigans]

So very close and it seems to be taking forever... the first 98K went by in a flash!

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Well I learnt a lot on the shortest motorway In this 7 minute video, another great video mate.

[@johnsieyes5707]

I live around half a mile from there and have used that road hundreds of times. Didn't realise that short stretch held such a strange record.

[@NickMeredith]

Peak shenanigans! Great stuff.

[@chillybrit2334]

Should build some motorway services there... with a bridge between the two sides.

[@Newtownabbeyist208]

There is also an A8(M) in Newtownabbey, it’s also the shortest motorway in Northern Ireland.

[@RichardWatt]

If Jon ever gets to Aberdeen, will he take one look at its roads and tell us "they're crap" (because they are)? 😅

[@AutoShenanigans]

What motorway... ;-) Was there ever a plan for the A90 to be a motorway up to Aberdeen?

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Let them get the A9 dualled all the way to Inverness first…. Road to Aberdeen is a nightmare.

[@EvilGav]

@@AutoShenanigans nope. Not even to Dundee (which these days would make some sense). The population density and traffic numbers drop off really hard beyond Perth. Other than Dundee and Aberdeen, there are no major population centres north of Perth, so the amount of traffic is very low. You can see this from how difficult anyone has found it to even justify upgrading the whole of the A9 to a dual carriageway, even though it's the only/primary link to the Highlands. Plus you get a lot of the issues listed in the video - removing the A90 as an option for non-motorway traffic leaves little to no alternatives, so you'd either need to keep at least a single carriageway A90 alongside the M90 or some other option like that. Which becomes staggeringly expensive in comparison to the number of cars using the roads.

[@hairyairey]

​@@EvilGavand even if the demand was there the local topology would make a motorway ridiculously expensive.

[@S.ASmith]

@@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524 it's smooth for most of it but the A90 is 80 miles of average speed cameras...so it is a right pain. A92 via Stonehaven, Montrose and Arbroath is much more of a fun road.

[@AviatorCameron]

If you can make a 7 minute video on this then you could make a whole documentary on the M25

[@EMT_Artesania]

Petition to keep the scottish intro song forever! 😁 it's wicked sweet awesome! Congrats on your videos, Jon, from a spaniard who's never been in the UK (and probably never will) well, I've been in Gibraltar, but that's not "really" UK 😜

[@AutoShenanigans]

great to have you along. Thanks for watching. I went to Gibraltar once.. big rock and monkeys, that's all I remember.

[@EMT_Artesania]

@@AutoShenanigans yeah, there's no much more... 😂

[@starlight5229]

Short but definitely sweet. Actually quite a lot to be said about such a small length 😉

[@PhilipMurphyExtra]

Interesting, Through that sector of Motorway is much nicer to drive on then the M25.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Most roads are nicer than the M25 to be fair :D

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Definitely more interesting than I was expecting.

[@EifelBlaulichtTV]

That's dedication there! No one would've managed to stretch 300 Metres of Motorway into a 7 Minute video! Great job, Jon!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one mate, thanks for watching!

[@ChimpManZ1264]

Scotland: Let's take the UK record for shortest Motoway! Scottish Parliament: Well I guess it isn't too expensive to achieve. England: So how's that M2 reroute plan going guys? London: It's a headache!

[@RhysEdwards14]

7 minutes on the shortest motorway and all the details and information to go with it? Must be a record lol but great work Jon!

[@sergentmow345]

I think it needs a motorway services along there 😂

[@nathanw9770]

Fun fact: The A8M is shorter than the Caledonian Sleeper train and only about 60m longer than a 12 car Thameslink train.

[@MartinFarrell1972]

Been following your channel for a while. Now you've done the A8 hopefully you'll now do the M8. Abandoned Ring Road, ghost junctions and bridges to nowhere. This is all near the city centre. It has been upgraded a number of times since construction.

[@AutoShenanigans]

M8 coming soon!

[@S.ASmith]

Is it the "Em Eight" or "Mate" though?

[@theresnobodyhere5778]

at that junction were the slip coming off the M73 going onto M8 theres an old church the monklands canal run along at the rear of church and from that point the M8 was built on the canal all way into city centre to port Dundas was all canal

[@aedanjmcghie]

@@theresnobodyhere5778 Which strangely means if you look at a current map it’s a blue line for the M8 and if you look at an old map it’s a blue line for canal. The western end of the watered bit in Coatbridge/Bageddie bothers me. I don’t know how it would have gone under the railway.

[@theresnobodyhere5778]

@@aedanjmcghie when you go under railway you go up hill look to your left and you can still see the flat level of canal bank and a tree line either side of what would have been canal that runs along to rear of church on the right side of road theres still old canal bridges further up and lots of foundation structures just at top of the hill canal run on north side of railway to somewhere around easterhouse railway station and M8 was cut into it at that point ,all the answers and old maps i guess would be at summerlee heritage park always meant to go in there and find out more ,i can remember as a small child walking up through fields to that church and crossing a wooden canal bridge with the old locks still in place before motorway was finished they,ed started in at city centre first

[@magnusmcgee993]

'Speed bonnie boat' Showing your Englishness again. 'Over the sea to Skye…' now there are road and infrastructure out there that might make a good item. As ever, great content, M

[@xlr82u]

Could you please do another video on the A14 (formerly A604)? For reference, there are sections of disused road here as a starting point 52.38100510035854, -0.6285548974211851. It's a section of road I'm particularly interested in for some reason, probably because it used to be a main thoroughfare until the A14 was built and you can still walk some of the old sections.

[@O0rgate]

Thank you John, I stay in Swinton and enjoyed the details

[@williamfence566]

98.4K subscribers. Common people tell your friends . 100k nearly there.

[@AutoShenanigans]

That'd be useful.. I've got a "100K special" lined up and we're never going to see it at this rate :D

[@Andrewjg_89]

The A8(M) spur motorway might not need a hard shoulder just like the A823(M) spur near Dunfermline. But I understand why that the A8(M) was built for local traffic to access the M8 and M73 motorways and the A8(M) is only 300 meters. Must be so excited to have the A8(M) to the east of Glasgow.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Interestingly, the A8M seems to have some sort of hard shoulders but it doesn't look to be of the full "regulation" width.

[@Andrewjg_89]

I can see why. Very weird little motorway 😂

[@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian]

Only Jon can pack in so much interesting information into a video about such a short motorway. Outstanding 👏👏👍😎

[@salibaba]

Ah one of the many mental things on the Scottish motorway network. Of particular mental note is the 2 on slips to join the motorway using the inside lane. J15WB & J17EB of the M8, both closed at the moment due to works.

[@davidrobert2007]

Those abandoned sections of road would make a really good burnout pad 😊

[@cliffcrabtree4359]

Yay !. Secrets of the Motorway, my Sunday treat !😎

[@SpikeMatthews]

I never knew about balancing ponds before - thanks for that info!

[@Tsass0]

Thanks John

[@ianstewartorr8455]

From salsburgh to tams loup quarry near Harthill the M 8 is built on the original A 8 alignment greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@comedyhunter]

Well for saying its the shortest motorway you managed to tell us a lot about it ! Always entertaining and enjoy trying to guess the TV theme at the end

[@JasonBochel]

It's the Skye Boat Song - quite a famous song, most recently the theme tune to Outlander

[@comedyhunter]

@@JasonBochel Thanks, oh yes I see its been used in many things on TV.

[@johnmehaffey9953]

I worked a lot in Glasgow and Edinburgh nothing very exciting about that, yep, I agree but I was doing contracts and lived permanently in Ireland so depending on the length of the contract I stayed in either city I was working in, enough about the employment back to Jon’s video, I’d gotten bored with the driving along the M8 and decided to do the A8 instead a 1 hour journey on the motorway took well over 2 hours on the A road but the scenery was superb and surprisingly very little traffic, it made me realise that the M8 certainly was necessary, next time I revisit Scotland I’m going to make sure to travel Britain’s and Scotlands shortest motorway

[@AutoShenanigans]

I do find with Scotland you can't be in a rush, even a simple 10 mile journey takes half a day of winding around lochs and mountains. Lovely though!

[@glenjones6980]

So we learned that the A8 has a parent, grandparent, great grandparent and probably a great great grandparent along with a half relative which is now a motorway.

[@HAZYFALKIRK]

Nightmare of a junction to get used to

[@AutoShenanigans]

It is, I may have gone wrong a couple of times :D

[@pawelmacpoof5687]

I thought the sud ponds act like a fine filter, for when the water does eventually soak away it leaves the diesel particles in the pond.

[@123penfold]

The A8m and the associated interchange around seems to be the most complicated road to understand.

[@Firecul]

I'll be honest, I still find it easier than the works at Strathclyde park 😂

[@solidstateresistor2485]

Truly interesting. Who would have thought motorways could be fascinating!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Nice one, thanks for watching

[@godzillas6301]

to drive it 30 seconds , to watch the video 7 minutes appriciate your efferts young fella

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Keep up the good work Jon. Sometimes the shortest roads have the most interesting histories.

[@RFGfotografie]

Awesome yet again

[@tardismole]

A lot more complication in that short stretch than is probably good for it. Great video.

[@lifechooser]

What'll she do mistah? - Fast enough to break the speed limit on the A8(M)

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video John, very interesting 👌👍😀

[@tobyjackman3212]

This is the best video I've ever seen about anything

[@deanfarrimond7543]

So close to 100k subscribers. buzzing for you pal!

[@mariemccann5895]

What a cracking video!

[@frankmoseley3214]

Thanks!

[@AutoShenanigans]

Top man, thanks a lot mate

[@sandwichbar8226]

Hello Jon, how the devil are you, have you had a good week?

[@AutoShenanigans]

not bad ta

[@BrightonandHoveActually]

What's the music at the end? The Skye Motorway Song? Looking forward to that episode.

[@martinalooksatthings]

This video is honestly a masterclass

[@AutoShenanigans]

Ah shucks. Thanks for watching!

[@aedanjmcghie]

I cycle along that bit of A89 every day going to work. There is a bit of old A89 under the grass and trees. If you look at the 2017 Google image you can see it coned off and being covered in dirt.

[@ericcarlin8440]

I believe the abandoned stretch of the new/ old A8 was built in the late1920s/1930s to provide work for the unemployed. It provided bypasses around many of the towns along its route.

[@S.ASmith]

You know, as someone who used to be unemployed, getting benefits and working on major infrastructure projects would have been quite a fun thing to do. Shame it's not done any more though!

[@joeweston3252]

respect john for putting so much content into such a short motorway.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Cheers mate. What was really good was having all the filming locations within walking distance! It made for a most efficient filming day. Or it would have if the rain didn't ruin everything :D

[@williamriven]

I'm engaging because nobody knows a better way to get the recommendation algorithm to work.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Thanks a lot !

[@katiemace8864]

Brilliant

[@craigshovlin9756]

I've driven on this stretch of road many times over the last few weeks and had no idea it was a motorway, keep up the good and interesting work Jon, just a word of wise though, don't leave your car unattended for any period of time in that area, the local scrap men will be off with the wheels and the cat before you know it

[@ADJLfanatic52]

Reminds me of Interstate 180 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. As you know both interstates and motorways aren't supposed to have any at grade crossings, crosswalks, or traffic lights. Interstate 180 is completely different in that it's a giant surface street with all three of those. Only reason it came to be like that was because the USDOT didn't want to spend a whole bunch of money to upgrade just that section. So the DOT said "f*ck it, make the surface street an interstate" and that was that.

[@anonUK]

King of the Stroads

[@jsp7202]

In the Canadian prairies it is common to have side roads coming off major highways, sometimes there are very nasty accidents. Also highway 406 in Ontario used to have crossings with side roads back in the 1990's.

[@katrinabryce]

In the UK, when that happens, the sign backs change from blue to green, and it goes from being an Mx or Ax(M) road to an Ax road. There are other cases where it is an A road despite being built to motorway standards because they didn't want to put an all purpose road parallel to it. I learned my motorway driving on one of those roads near me because learner drivers aren't allowed on actual motorways.

[@jsp7202]

@@katrinabryce In Ontario green signs mean your are on the express lanes of a highway while blue signs are for the collector lanes.

[@katrinabryce]

@@jsp7202 In the UK, blue is motorway, green is the more important A roads, white is less important roads.

[@stewartoutandabout]

It's even got a number. Ha! Take that Walton Summit motorway.

[@jamestanton7424]

And here we were being impressed last week with 5 minutes of the A823(M).

[@AlpakaWhacker]

Was not expecting you to be able to make a 7min video out of the A8(M) but it was very good :)

[@AutoShenanigans]

Neither was I to be honest! :D

[@bfapple]

Whereas, in Leicestershire, the A14 now terminates at a junction that is otherwise only motorway…

[@gaz10182]

m8 another good watch and interesting bit of old to new infrastructure info... theres a road linking the westlotian county and falkirk ... its the avon gorge ... main route between 2 major motorways used by hgv and really should be upgraded... only 40 years ago plans were made to put a new bridge and road in but has never came to anything as falkirk council shat out the plans and also couldn't shove there fingers up there area 😅😅 accident black spot and a shady junction at the top would be interesting if a man of ur knowledge could poke the councils for info on why its never been sorted ....... ps awesome road for a car but scary if u meet a truck 😂

[@paulharvey9149]

Didn't the original, original A8 pass through the town centres of both Coatbridge and Airdrie (and intersect with the A73 in the middle of the latter)? That would explain the absence of the previous A8 (running parallel and immediately south of the A8 (M) ) on your earlier map, as well as the position of what appears to be the main road. Further east, the original original A8 also ran through the centres of Broxburn, Uphall and Dechmont, before it was by-passed by a road that has since been numbered A89, which also appears on your maps here.

[@AutoShenanigans]

Probably did mate.

[@andyyouell5037]

Genius is a word

[@RFGfotografie]

Goddamn complicated. In Cities Skylines this would be a traffic jam hotspot/nightmare.