The Men Who Make Our Roads Drivable | The Motorway: Life In The Fast Lane | Real Responders

[@TracyWillisphotographer]

Why buy a house right by the motorway and then complain when the maintenance is carried out? Would they rather it was repaired during the day when thousands of people would then be disrupted? Have they never heard of blackout curtains and earplugs?

[@dadt8009]

I find earplugs don't work well with lower frequencies noise. Also, some of these residents have been there since before the motorway was built. Anyway, I think you have a point. It's too late for the residents now. They are not going to close or move the motorway now.

[@Jwright65]

@@dadt8009 The older couples situation is a shame and they have a right to be irritated, but they don't seem to be that bothered about the maintenance - just the water in their garden. The two guys who were kicking up a fuss wouldn't have been there before the M6 was built - they'd have to be 61 years old to have been born in the same year the M6 was constructed. Probability is that they bought a house next to a motorway and are complaining about it. They could also get soundproofing in their homes to reduce the noise

[@katcorot]

I'm surprised nobody has installed those sound deadening concrete walls, absorb sound and you don't have to look at the motor way

[@LonelyPanda18420]

Like, would they rather blue lights flashing, plus deafening sirens, helicopters and possibly traffic at a standstill with hundreds of people hanging around just over the fence from them?

[@harleywalls6356]

@@katcorot prob coz they would complain about how much the hate them 2 lol

[@Slackerz]

Gotta say, watching those truck squeeze through that exit back onto the highway through the double line made me realize just what these lads get themselves into. Much respect for those workers, riskin' their skins like that.

[@onestopplus1]

Honestly that Alan, he needs to understand that you can't just tell the road service they have to put him up in a hotel just because he can't/won't tolerate some noise. He lives next to a major roadway for goodness sake. It seems to me that he's only psyching himself out.

[@britishbobcat2098]

He seems to have nothing better to do. When his boyfriend screamed in to the noise monitor and it read 102 db I laughed. Your average hoover creates 85db. If the road works are coming in at 64 - 75 db they are quieter than hoover. Those two men are bonkers. Shut your windows, play some soothing music, use earplugs, focus on something else. Heck, I lived near train tracks and a military base where choppers come and go frequently. You stop hearing them after a while. Jeff says: "OMD Obsessive Motorway Disorder, I've got something". Yes mate, you do. You're nuts! Go find a hobby.

[@UKSeejay]

love it how 70% of the comments are about them two blokes

[@Zorkki170]

I mean ... they are nobs lol

[@niamhmcbride4012]

That’s what I thought lol

[@lucasstubbs2883]

++++

[@nocopyme84634744]

it would be interesting to see how many that have written here have complain them self's and how have complain about the barking dog next door due to noise .

[@jinkedebakker3237]

Those two need new hobbies. Stop bugging everyone about the noise level that’s not high at all. They just want to be spoiled for a few days. On the taxpayers money 💰. Sad 😞.

[@smc130]

Congratulations and thanks to Matt for finding the funds to repair the Croaks garden. It means a lot to them to be able to enjoy their garden and I don’t blame them. My garden (backyard ) here in Texas is six times the size of theirs. They would really enjoy what we take for granted. They’re such lovely people. I would give them my yard if I could.

[@ellespoonies]

“Could you sleep through that? ... I couldn’t.” Actually yeah, I absolutely could, but clearly you’ve been too busy staring out the window to even try.

[@chootastic]

The was pretty much the background noise level from when i lived in a town centre. What he doesn't have is the drunk couple having a very noisy breakup in the street.

[@sonjam314]

I definitely could especially if I was tired!!!!!🤣😂

[@RoseRey-ob4tn]

Its only for a few nights

[@mikey-wj1mp]

I am sorry but I bet they are the first to moan about potholes on the moterway but then moan about the repair work! dont live next to a moterway if you dont like noise!!

[@SweatpantsPG]

How could 88 people not correct his misspellings? MOTORWAY.

[@sonjam314]

Sean Gahan because we know what they are saying and we are not the grammar police 🚔. I personally don’t find a need to nitpick!!!!!! 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[@Menoetia]

"Could you sleep through that?" I have - it's called ear plugs. Both my spouse and I work evening/graveyard shift jobs and have had to cope with having construction done _literally_ a meter from our building. Jackhammers and heavy machinery starting at 8am and going until 4pm, EVERY day for three full months. The fact that they even bothered to TRY keeping things 'quiet' on an active construction site is monumental to me, but then I also understand that construction workers aren't out there being loud as hell to personally make my life miserable - someone has to fix the damn roads, and fixing them ain't quiet.

[@krijgdeschurft]

you bought a house next to a motorway because it was cheaper. now stop complaining and accept what you chose for yourself!!

[@ourmilotin2819]

49:20 poor cat

[@gary63693]

I know right, that's intentional distress of an animal, report them to the R.S.P.C.A

[@scottyfox6376]

The cat was thinking wtf..I'm booking it asap

[@nonacee5065]

In many states of Australia, sound barriers are built between housing estates and freeways.

[@Xenogeek2]

Also in the US.

[@sonjam314]

Then they would complain because they have to stare at a really tall brick wall!!!! There is no winning with the two complainers!!!!! It’s become there life long passion😂🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[@schlimmerfinger1202]

@@sonjam314 haha lol u sooo funny what a great joke how funny. lets drop the biggest highway of england in your backgarden and lets see if you are still so happy or if you start protesting after your home lost massive quality and you your sanity because you cant sleep anymore

[@rorschach3753]

@@sonjam314 In Netherlands they have sound barriers made of plastic that are partially transparent. God knows why we don't use them in the UK.

[@XenonXyanide]

43:10 The way how that woman was going on, she was more likely to cause an accident panicking like that >_>

[@tattycakes2k2]

She’s right dozy

[@cathiez9131]

How the heck is road work supposed to happen without noise?? Good grief!

[@scottyfox6376]

Rubber hammers & sneakers ?😂

[@kittydoescosplay2416]

“The roads are in such bad condition they have to be completely resurfaced” Me, living on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas: THAT’S BAD CONDITION?! THE POTHOLES WERE MAYBE AN INCH DEEP!

[@brocklievsay8262]

that's what I was thinking too. The tarmac sure looked to be in alright condition compared to some of the heavily used roads in Minnesota. I came out of a parking lot and had to stop and plan my route to doge the pot holes, swerving to avoid the huge foot deep one with a little puddle of water in it.

[@smc130]

Those roadways look to be in good condition compared to some highways in Texas!!

[@caseybarnes4221]

Ironically in Cali, I've seen signs that say "Your tax dollars at work" literally right outside of the pot-holiest road.... yeah, paying for wut??

[@Chlo-ee]

Just goes to show how different governments invest in infrastructure.

[@jenlfpotter3870]

Yeah, resurface a motorway which doesn't need it, just leave the smaller trunk roads and residential roads to crumble, become mine fields of potholes. Very good plan... not. My mum had a popped tyre, no thanks to a pothole, on a one way system a couple of months back. I was also in the car at the time. We were on our way to the gym, so I got out of going to the gym that morning by the time the car had been fitted with the spare wheel by the roadside mechanic.

[@stephenmadden107]

I laugh at the fact that the people making complaints are the same people that need to take the same highway that is being worked on. They'd complain even more if the roads were messed up.

[@AirportPlaneSpotting]

*motorway

[@NorthWestOutlaws]

@@AirportPlaneSpotting "highway" is primarily a legal term. Everyday use normally implies roads

[@user-ml9bg2ns7g]

Thats why they bought their houses for 10k lmfao

[@alexfx7500]

Lady Jupiter stfu

[@wetlettuce4768]

@Lady Jupiter I advise you leave the internet it's not for your ilk.

[@rosemarydudley9954]

NOOOOO. THEY BOUGHT IT BEFORE THE MOTORWAY WAS BUILT

[@SirBlueWhale]

@Lady Jupiter Thanks for informing us, Karen.

[@adondriel]

@@rosemarydudley9954 again, they prolly only paid like 10k

[@imogentempest-woods9947]

It’s like they thought the motorway would be completely silent when they moved there 😂

[@bookcat123]

I have to say... the month the city of Boston spent jackhammering something in the alley right outside my apartment window, starting at 5 or 6 am daily, was far more headache-inducing than the T running right past the front of the building. And the T was so loud you had to pause conversations while it passed. Jackhammers are LOUD. But if it was really only going to be one night? They have the right to be annoyed but it's a passing nuisance. Also, I didn't catch if they "moved there" or had been there generations? My family's farm is right on the end of a bridge which leads to interesting back-and-forth coordinating with the bridge authority. Technically, you can't build a driveway that close to a bridge entrance. But we were there first, and they built their bridge that close to the driveway, so we're grandfathered in. I say "we" even though my father wasn't even born yet when the bridge was built. It's still the family farm, and my family was there first :-) Edit: Okay, it was a week not a night. They came back to them later. Still...

[@mtnjhutch]

Why don’t they get ear plugs?

[@easymac79]

22:35 Look at this dude's eyes! He is on high alert and ready to argue, he could be 20 miles deep in the forest and wouldn't sleep a wink. It is not from the construction.

[@shahidqadar7062]

Put them in a hotel. Cheeky. Their own fault for living next to a motorway. Move house haha

[@Boodieman72]

They were there before the motorway.

[@gavinward95]

@@Boodieman72 No, the two guys were absolutely not living there beforehand. They chose to live in that home. That's their problem.

[@Boodieman72]

@@gavinward95 I was referring to the old couple with the flooding.

[@gavinward95]

@@Boodieman72 Ah, okay. Makes sense for that old couple to be upset. I would be a lot more pissed than they were.

[@Ethankeenan02]

Poor old couple hope they sorted it for them id be pissed off if the was my garden

[@melodybernhardt981]

When he screamed into the decibel monitor and the cat absolutely shit itself... Unexpectedly amazing

[@davidwheeldon5918]

Imagine buying a house next to the M6 and then complaining about noise. Snowflakes

[@Adam-vy6nl]

David Wheeldon the minimal brain capacity of a brummie

[@LesD9]

@@Adam-vy6nl Walsallian

[@gameguild1555]

I think if you pee on snowflakes, they disappear

[@DANLi_]

People build houses near airports and complain about jet noise...

[@SiVlog1989]

The factor that people need to consider when thinking about is to see things from their perspective. It's easy to criticise those affected by the construction of HS2 through the Chilterns for example as rich out of touch nimbies. Equally, when people are in houses next to airports and motorways they get unhappy as well

[@monkey_spanner8433]

lmao lorry driver honk "Ive got your bottle of piss here mate"

[@eMTBExplorer]

49:21 never seen a cat move so fast 😂

[@Random_Video_Hub]

Kyle I just barely saw that

[@mrsanselmo3342]

😂😂

[@duzzzz94]

I dont understand why they complain.. they know the work takes couple nights, then it is over. I have my own experiences and I know it is only temporary

[@glenr7393]

My gods, that woman panicking @ 43:30 really needs to stop driving altogether, that poor little kid looks petrified.

[@vex-nh]

Bad acting. There's zero chance that a tire actually went out while the cameras were running.

[@ddon1797]

@@vex-nh idk that car looked like a pos lol

[@jeanmyers1787]

Wow whilst being filmed 😮

[@connorkilpatrick6283]

Good choice of background music. Name of the music is: The Hot Asfalt by Luke Kelly and the Dubliners.

[@wayneandrews9298]

Yeah , The Hot Assfarts , a load of shit really , that's why paddy music is down the pan ..

[@Djordymans]

with the decibel thingy. he clearly stood outside right next to the motorway. ofcourse that is going to be loud AF. if you close your windows it isn't going to be that loud.

[@mrsanselmo3342]

then screaming into the device😂😂 what an absolute tool😂😂

[@insertname8042]

Clearly the clip was fejk. *The value that we are seeing on the sound level meter in the videoclip on his cellphone is for once not correlating with the sound coming out of the cellphones speaker.* That is, the sound which the cellphone recorded. If he infact had a legitimate 112 dB source further away from the sound level meters microphone then like an inch we would have gotten it from the videoclip as *sound* as well. Now what we do hear is some sort of fan that stops just as the value magically drops from 112 dB to like 60 dB in 2 seconds. I say he has some sort of noice source an inch from the sound level meters microphone - perhaps a fan of some sort blowing into the microphone.

[@smc130]

It seems some of the residents along the motorway could stay with friends or family who live nearby for a few nights during the road repairs. It’s unfortunate but road repairs must be made. It’s like living near railroad tracks. It’s a fact of life and that’s that.

[@pugdude9174]

its a male karen

[@jenlfpotter3870]

Absolutely. I live opposite a train station platform with a level crossing blocking the top end of the housing estate, so every, flipping, time I go anywhere, fingers crossed the barriers are up and we can drive straight over the track. If there are works carried out, me and my neighbours get flyers through the door giving dates and times when they will happen overnight. I certainly don't notice any more noise than the usual passenger or freight trains either stopping or passing through at very great speed. I also wear noise cancelling earbuds or on-ear headphones, so if there was excess noise either, from the railway or my town's bypass just a block round the corner at any time of the day, I can just block it with the noise cancelling feature.

[@budgiebreder]

Ok so what do you prefer? Sirens from all the crashes that happen on that section of road coz its fallen into disrepair, or a few nights of noise? If its that bad you book yourself a hotel and move out, then ask to be reimbursed later if your that selfish.

[@SEPK09]

7:00 worse pot holes DAMN, come down the South east then it's like driving the battle of the somme.!!

[@davehowe4714]

Smart motorway “gonna ease congestion” hahahahahaha it hasn’t done Jack! That motorway is nightmare, the toll road might cost money but I’ve never been held up on it yet 👍🏼

[@scottyfox6376]

Just throw your money out the window & call it a "Smart Solution"

[@smc130]

I would use the toll road and just take my lunch to work to offset the cost of using it.

[@iseinabuka2535]

Complaining about the road works that keep everyone safe. Come on!! We humans can do better than that!

[@Ethankeenan02]

There not humans them to nobs a gobiling bitchs

[@mrsanselmo3342]

some people find anything and everything to complain about

[@RachelUndercover]

It annoys the heck out of me that people still litter whilst in a car or truck. Like just keep it in the car/truck until you're at the services, it's not difficult! You know what reduce to the congestion? Reduce the cost of using the M6 toll, £5.50 is ridiculously expensive.

[@LesD9]

The real answer is lower tolls for HGVs. That's what they do in Spain.

[@whodar3swins]

49:20 You are on the M6 and you hear the battle cry of Mr Sargent coming your way...

[@mastergx1]

Cracking

[@easymac79]

20:45 Jesus... Jinx! You owe me a coke, truck driver dude. I keep thinking, "this has to be the last one" and then they keep cutting it closer and closer! 24:39 Do you want to pop a tire every time you drive on that road? Do you even consider WHY crews are working? People astonish me.

[@Gary_Howe]

Reason M6 Toll doesn't help with M6 traffic is because it's ridiculously expensive. Put the charge down to about £2 and it would definitely help.

[@marciam6224]

In the US, we have "Adopt a Highway" cleanup. Businesses, groups, etc. adopt a mile or more of a highway and they keep it clean. Here in Michigan our highways are pretty clean.

[@Elaines-travels]

In Michigan you don't get the traffic in a year that the Mr gets in a week, it isn't safe for "service groups" to be wondering down the road picking up trash.

[@StevenB31327]

I bet if they didnt stand in their upstairs windows watching the works with the windows open, specifically listening for it, and instead just going about their own business ignoring it, they wouldnt be affected

[@Rin_Evans]

I do get the concept of the smart motorway bs but at the same time if a car breaks down they now won’t have somewhere safe to pull into that’s incredibly dangerous

[@jwarmstrong]

The home owners could install double or triple pane windows plus a thick front door on those brick houses. That worked on my home. Or have their mom read a story & give them hot chocolate

[@KiwiHelpgeek]

If it was construction work every night and they had been living there before the motorway went through then those two snowflakes might have a case, but it is, at maximum 4 days out of 365 or 1.1% of the year, so they need to zip their gobs. I loved hearing Kraftwork's Autobahn playing in the background at the end.

[@DeputatKaktus]

Nice choice of soundtrack towards the end 😂 (Autobahn by Kraftwerk)

[@richardhercus2430]

It’s unfortunate that some people bought there houses before the motorway was built and I do feel sorry for those people,to solve some of the problem by building a sound barrier at the side of the houses or at the highway would eliminate most of the problem.

[@Listrynne]

When they said they lived there before the roads it reminded me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which, now that I think of it, was written in the 70s. That gives me a bit more insight into one of my favorite series. In the very first chapter the main character walks outside in his pjs to find a bulldozer ready to knock down his house for the new motorway. Them his friend who is secretly an alien takes him into a spaceship to escape Earth's destruction by aliens to create a hyperspace bypass.

[@naeem882]

Sell your house and move away from the motorway why live their in the first place

[@Mads-hl8xj]

There's an brilliant invention called "Ear plugs"...

[@Xanthopteryx]

We continue: Running across the road like that, putting up signs... NO WAY in Sweden! A TMA-vehicle again (with all it's flashing and stuff), and then they put up the signs protected by the TMA. And we often do pavement work with the road open. Take one or two lanes at the time.

[@syazwanyusoff4795]

should the British government sacrifice the comfort of millions of m6 highway users just to make a few self-important m6 housing residents sleep at night. It's stupid that the residents of M6 already know they don't like noise but buy a house next to a busy highway..

[@alebatte]

56:16 " wir fahren fahren fahren auf der autobahn"...appropriate song for that moment 😊

[@emilschw8924]

16:55 - and I thought our South African drivers are the most notorious with dumping rubbish out of windows on the motorway... but that mattress takes the cake.

[@claudiag.9700]

i know right!

[@scottyfox6376]

I've seen mattresses,ladders, foam sheets & plywood fly off trailers on highways because the loads weren't secured properly.

[@Xanthopteryx]

The pucture: In Sweden, they would have a protective vehicle (TMA) and they would just close, fix, open. Quick and efficient.

[@mattone926]

What a pair of plants those two are. And does he always wear that ridiculous jumper?

[@carolereardon4103]

I feel sorry for the older couple and at least they have the common sense to be moving once the garden is sorted out. As for the other people - did they not consider road maintenance when they bought their houses? Also, why don't they move?? I feel bad for the crews working that have to put up with the BS from them!!

[@lynnegulbrand2298]

I live in the USA and we get prisoners to clean our roadways. The prisoners we use are men that have little time left and are called trustees, meaning they can be trusted not to run away. I actually worked for the county that I live in driving a truck with 4 trustees on my crew. Anything they found would be theirs except wallets and jewellery. The guys that worked with me were always nice and respectable because I'm a female. Best job I ever had.

[@smc130]

Lynne Gulbrand Thank you for telling a positive story in response to this video. The British give much shorter and milder sentences for crimes there than we do in the US. Their long term prisoner population is the violent offenders, murderers mostly. I wouldn’t want 4 if them in your road crew.

[@lynnegulbrand2298]

@@smc130 I'm actually from England originally but have been in the US since 72. Went back in the 90s and hated the changes. I do miss some things though.

[@C0Y0T3]

holy hell, if only literally any usa free/high/motorway was treated like this

[@trainspotteromg]

i mean its there own fault for buying a house by the motorway 7:35

[@simonuden8450]

Watching this four years on. I have an Ordnance Survey map from 1967, which is just after this stretch of the M6 was built. Grindleford Road, and another road about 200 metres further north were the only roads that backed on to the M6 in the West Midlands at that time, so any other houses that do the same now were built after the motorway, and someone bought them with the motorway already there. I am surprised at the number of people banging on about sound barriers. They are used on some modern motorways in the UK, but only where the structure has been designed for them. To block the noise they would have to be built at road level, and those elevated sections were not designed for that additional weight, nor the wind loading on them. Not only that, if you've actually stood underneath these elevated sections, there is far more noise from vehicles going over the expansion joints than there is from the vehicles tyres or engines, and that noise would be far greater when the motorway is free flowing at night than when stationary lorries are parked on it during roadworks. That claimed 119db is just plain BS, though, as proven by the professional measurement.

[@shaneleslie9218]

Feel sorry for the couple who lived there before the motorway was built. They should of moved to Australia 🇦🇺😂

[@dane2YT]

Buys a house next to motorway, moans about noise. People will do anything for compensation. Pathetic.

[@madpete6438]

At 1.36 there is a kid with no seatbelt on - wow - stunning.

[@AirportPlaneSpotting]

Well it was kinda already said, if you buy a house next to the motorway, you should be expecting noise pollution and drainage problems. You just have to learn to live with it

[@funnyclipish]

Add noise cancelling walls like they have next to the German highways

[@Sarge92]

probably complained there a eyesore also fuck no why waste money on people too stupid to realise that motorways make noise

[@YN-io6kj]

They do have sound dampeming walls amd lots of trees but theres people will always find something to complain about. End of the day. The motorway came first not the houses.

[@CrazyInWeston]

@@YN-io6kj You'll find that the houses were there first, thats why the Motorway is elevated and goes over the houses.

[@YN-io6kj]

@@CrazyInWeston not those ones. The one near junction 10 m6.

[@CrazyInWeston]

@@YN-io6kj I get you. These ppl have every opportunity to move yet they stay put and complain? Really? If its that bad... MOVE I'm sure someone will move in not minding the Motorway.

[@arikrampus6825]

i live just off m5 in a area there's constant works.... yes it loud as feck I'm kept up most nights but issue is u live there knowing its gonna be loud as feck....so u need to deal with it imagine asking Gatwick to close cause its noise lmao

[@dane2YT]

43:24 She pulls up literally yards before an exit...

[@frxshhcookz3581]

49:20 you scared ur cat!! LOLLL HE RAN OUT

[@bookcat123]

"The hardest part is smoothing the joints" or you don't bother and just put up a sign that says "bump" until traffic and weather smooth it for you... for that matter I think the local DOT just puts up a sign that says "bump" rather than refinish at all

[@ABDesigner1]

I'm going to complains about noise while I *bought* the house fully knowing where it is... Plus, I'm going to complain about maintenance noise, and I'm going to complain about a poor maintained road.. What a logic people, *what a logic!*

[@scottrhind2226]

49:20 when you stub your toe

[@shawndinterman2219]

Matt seemed like he really cared to get that garden fixed

[@bailey125]

That mother at around 43:00 overrated especially with a child next to her. She should never had panicked and she should not have stopped in a live lane.

[@christopher4636]

She's not competent to be on the road and she's lucky she didn't cause a further accident. Litterally shrieking about her car making a noise while driving slowly as if her life was in peril. How does she get through daily life...

[@bailey125]

@@christopher4636 Mind blowing how she even passed her test

[@riccardoz2953]

that mother is FICTIONAL. professional camera on a personal veicle while happens a flat tire. cmon. there was the noise of the flat tire EVEN AFTER THE CAR WAS totally stopped. cmon pay attention

[@joanneriley3899]

47:45 “if this WAS summer, and you wanted your windows open” as he opens his windows, sticks his head out so he can TRY and hear what equipment is being used pmsl. Guess who would be complaining if he got his tracking messed up from driving through pot holes, or worse?

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Them two blokes probably use the road every day

[@Msviolet65]

Excellent music choices there at the end! Love Kraftwork (sp)

[@tiredmummy7512]

Roadworks are a fact of life. We need roads. They need maintaining. End of... Sometimes the organisation could be better though. There's no point abusing the workers on the road!

[@doposud]

that is just insane :D i'm mad when 3 cars pass my house in one day :D i can't imagine that

[@stevewhitehouse1660]

Thank you for a quite road surface !!!!

[@luciw9928]

They could put up noise block walls. Then they won’t see nothing on the road and it blocks most of the noise. We have them by our interstates here in the USA. 🇺🇸❤️

[@toddmiller5656]

"Oh, God! Oh, God! Me tyre's gonna blow!" Meanwhile, Hermione Granger in the passenger seat tells mum to keep calm.

[@boldorboy08]

what a knob that woman was! Poor kid was more in control than her mum. Way to instil calm and not panic your child.

[@hippopotamus86]

So damn annoying the way the editors have added car and lorry horn sounds to this just to make it seem more dangerous.

[@White03T4RV82WD]

We have a spaghetti junction in Atlanta too lol. 285, 85 and 75 plus all the side roads in the area connect to it

[@jeanmyers1787]

Why choose to live next to M6 then?

[@jonmac6133]

Does the UK not install sound baffling walls? In high traffic or residential areas, the US employs these. I presume they’ve researched various methods of alleviating noise pollution.

[@danndylionperson224]

We do in some roads but we prefer to use trees and nature

[@gde1989]

@@danndylionperson224 but you can still have proper sound barriers plus trees. this is pretty standard in australia

[@danndylionperson224]

@@gde1989 You can however my point was not that it ismy possible more in the UK we dont really use artificial sound barriers and more use only natural ones like trees

[@gde1989]

@@danndylionperson224 and i guess that would be my point, it is crazy to see that those houses are that close to the motorway and there are no proper sound barriers. In my part of Aus, you would never see houses built that close, but when they are, there are proper sound barriers and will generally be surrounded by trees especially on the side where houses are. Is there no legislation in the UK that would regulate that these must be installed?

[@danndylionperson224]

@@gde1989In regards to regulation there is now in regards to sound barriers and building restrictions but not when it was built

[@rubel247]

in 2003 I read on a news papers that the m6 carrys 140 thousand cars every day now in 2019 they say m6 is carrying 140 thousand cars when the traffic is twice as bad

[@PharexsysMage]

I call bull on the sound recording. The acoustics of both recording devices were completely different. The councils one was recorded in open space and the blokes one was done from his window. Then you got the guy in his lounge room...

[@stantrucker1150]

Wish the USA would adopt some of the ways they maintain the roads over the pond. A new road surface over here never means a smooth ride, especially in a semi.

[@EthosAtheos]

Wow That tool for measuring the flatness of the road wouldn't even go it down a road in the state I live in.

[@leestill8119]

We are in a village with tractors that are non stop going through we have to deal with it

[@Xenogeek2]

56:33 Kraftwerk Autobahn Nice touch :)

[@minecraft623creeeper8]

Future is bright for motorists on the UK network of smart Motorways, I don't think so. It shows you what happened to the woman with the kid with the flat. If a lorry had hit them they would NOT of lived. Dangerous if you ask me if we have no hard shoulder to go to if we breakdown in the UK . Good that they are doing the work and managing the motorways but it is all about saving money at the end off the day. For the two guys move or stay and put up with it. I hope they sorted the drain problem out for the drain problem. I don't know why everything nowadays has to be called smart it, it is not smart it is a nightmare.

[@MasterBasser]

in the USA we have a thing called noise barriers. Works wonders.

[@sandyposey8074]

I enjoyed this video very much!

[@dermitdrApe]

that operator at 10:20 wearing a tie though… this is so UK, haha

[@colinskelding8959]

Lol. Hey. If you go to a general store, I bet the store has some inexpensive earplugs. I also think same store might have sleep masks.

[@theWightRabbit]

That guy is wearing the thickest turtleneck cable knit sweater under a jacket should consider installing a functional fireplace, that TV one doesnt seem to be doing much.

[@reapergaming380]

49:19 poor cat, had a heart attack

[@TeddGCM]

It amazes me that they would even consider getting a hotel for residents. It's great and all to consider it, but here in the USA, you ask for that and you would get laughed off the phone.

[@Alucard45000]

To the people that complain about the noise.. If you choose to move into a house that have a massive highway running next to it and are aware of it when you move in, you can't really complain about it. If you lived there before or when it was built, then I can understand complaining. But you do get used to the sounds fairly fast, I myself have been living between a highway and a tailroad, can barely hear the cars and trains anymore.

[@frxshhcookz3581]

*Buys house* Oh uhm I paid now the M6 Is right next to my house! TIME TO COMPLAIN!

[@evilborg]

In the US they build noise control walls. Literally a wall that is built with cinder blocks to reduce the noise pollution. Why don't they do that ?

[@TheModernSnipez]

Buys a house near highway, then complains about highway.

[@ThatVoxelBlock]

the poor cat had a fit 49:19