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I find it very pleasurable to watch this - relaxing, even. The countryside is beautiful and the various shades of green quite deeper and brighter than I'm used to (Australia, on the east coast.) One thing seems odd and that is not seeing any B-Double semi-trailers. They are so common here on the highways and seeing just conventional semis in this video is quite different. Are they not permitted in the UK/Europe?
Preston is obviously one of the UK'S newest cities, but it's also a very good example that a city doesn't really have to be the size of Manchester, Glasgow or Birmingham there are some smaller cities well worth visiting.
In the 1960s the London Glasgow bus route was all the way up the A1 to Scotch Corner then A66 to Penrith and then A6 and A74 to Glasgow. Took 12 hours overnight, 8pm to 8am. Coaches were Western SMT, very smart white and black, reading lights, reclining seats, on board toilet, and you could SMOKE!
I have noticed that there seems to be a few of these unusual junctions popping up at various places around the country. Like Jct 19 of M6 Northbound. Where, previously it had been a very normal but large conventional roundabout and what they have done is to basically drive the road right through the centre of the roundabout - which when you are not really used to seeing them looks very weird, but when you think about it 80-90% of the traffic when it came to the top of that slip road would have then gone round the road to the right. Of course, there's still a filter lane for anyone else who perhaps needs to take the road to the left. But it helps the flow of the traffic heading towards in this case Manchester International Airport. Obviously there will be a lot of cases where this sort of idea is just not feasible or really necessary but in situations such as this is does actually help - so well done to the person who thought up this.
Great nine hours and twenty two minutes drive. Really enjoyed this trip. Look forward to more such similar kind of videos in the near future. Thanks for sharing 😉😉😉
@@xd_transportation731 I had the impression that the flow can be improved by using intelligent traffic light management systems. I'm not sure if that's commonly used in the UK/in Londinium, as It's much more expensive... If someone knows..?
Its a pity that Stagecoach Megabus are still using the 69-reg on this route - not that there's anything particularly wrong with them. It's just that Megabus and Scottish Citylink have begun using the new Volvo 9700 DD on some of their other routes (brand new 24-reg). It would have been nice to have experienced that on a journey such as this. However that's just the way the cookie crumbles, nobody's fault really.😉 If you think that you would like to take a trip on one of the new Volvos i believe that they are serving the Glasgow to Inverness route.
This one was filmed in early April this year, literally a few days before the brand new Volvo 9700DDs introduced on M11, M20... I have already done M20 to Glasgow with the brand new one last month. The video should be available within this year, along with other coach journey recordings!
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one thing I'll never understand about the UK, never did in ETS2 either. What's up with the traffic lights in roundabouts? That's the whole point of roundabouts, you don't need lights. 1:05:00 was there some car meet nearby? All those Miatas, a TVR and more
Traffic lights on roundabouts has a few reasons. Firstly, in some areas, without traffic lights, some cars would just never get onto the roundabout so traffic lights give a chance for cars on more minor roads to get onto the roundabout. Combined with that is that sometimes this only happens at very busy peak times but the UK is backwards and many councils point blank refuse to have part time traffic lights. You go through most towns and cities at night and you don't need traffic lights but they still shine bright, needlessly holding people up when they aren't needed. In short, lack of political will to only have traffic lights at times when there is actually a need for them. Secondly, Sometimes it is done for pedestrian crossings. In some cases a single crossing on one arm of the roundabout means the whole thing needs traffic lights else it risks huge queues and essentially blocking the roundabout.
I have fond memories of taking the Anglo Scottish Scottish Citylink swrvices in the 80s and 90s from London to Glasgow. A wonderful journey which was about 8 hours even with a stop at Charnock Richard.
oh you uploaded this hell of a journey, went on it last year I think from Glasgow to shudehill bc i didn’t trust the trains, never again, i got the front top seat you were in on the right hand side, the A/C was broke and the coach was 25°C 💀
He's taken the long route with that Diversion - used to be they would go up the road in Blanefield that took you to Carbeth and then along and down the road to the roundbout at the 2 hour mark. That seems an excessively long diversion. Been stuck on buses there a couple of times owing to crashes and what not.
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