It is ironic that when this film was being made and shown, they were ripping up the railways all over the country. One side telling us the railways were ancient and not necessary in this modern age.....another side like this film telling us that the car situation is already getting out of hand and we need to plan for the future.
The road lobby and the privatisation lobby ruined this country by ripping it up and selling it to the highest bidder to save a few pennies at the top by shorting everyone at the bottom instead of giving it the investment and care it needed to be useful again. What was done to our infrastructure and utilities was akin to scrapping an E Type Jag because the carburettors was playing up, or throwing away a whole china set because one of the saucers was chipped on the bottom.
I think town planning has done far more harm than good. It’s the opposite of organic development. It thinks it can see the whole picture but doesn’t know what it doesn’t know.
@@ReddsoldierI’m sorry but how an earth are you blaming privatisation when the closure were due to nationalisation the beeching cuts started in 1950 only three years after the transport act coming into affect and nationalising them, there were 100s of instances were government refused to sell the lines to private individuals and forced them to be broken up it was the centralisation that caused it. It’s also the plot of the 1953 film the titfield thunderbolt. Many of those regional lines were created by the aristocrats/majors etc of an area and weren’t intended to make money the state stole them, killed the aristocratic class and then destroyed them for not being profitable
The street where the dustbin lorry is shown at 1:04 is the street I grew up in and the view at 1:11 even shows our front door. Thank you for posting this nostalgia.
East Anglia was known as the salesman graveyard because of it's old roads back in the 1960s. It didn't even have a motorway if you wanted to drive to London, A11all the way, and the trains took 4 hours.
Love the part about Liverpool, those flyovers have just been demolished and the waterfront is an even bigger mess, it's been dug up for over a year causing misery and delays for all.
Yes, and thankfully the vast inner ring road was never built or nearly all of the elevated walkways. Moorfields station though was built with the entrance 20 feet above street level. There was no need for the 2nd Mersey tunnel as the road traffic disappeared from the old docks moving to the Seaforth container base. The original tunnel is closed on Sundays showing this.
@@nevillemason6791 The old tunnel closed on Sundays? It's closed this Sunday 4/7/21 for maintenence only, 6am-13.00 one way and 13.00 - 18.00 hrs in the other direction. Nothing to do with lack of traffic, both Kingsway and Queens way tunnels are usually open 7 days.
A second Mersey tunnel? I went to North Wales camping with my last boarding school - we went via Liverpool and under the Wallasey Tunnel - there’s also a Birkenhead Tunnel - are there any others? No doubt that some Scouser could answer that - I’m from Middlesbrough originally - now live in Somerset!
The lack of and expense of public transport has turned many of us into four car families. Went to Cumbernauld once ,late eighties to see one of the shops about fixtures, china shop it was, security there eas tight, lot of pilfering etc, it was a grim grey windy place.
We knew we had an awful problem with our tiny island being so over crowded in 1964, and that steps had to be taken to tackle it. Begs the question, why did we allow millions of immigrants to come here over the next 57 years ? We are having to cover this little island in concrete to provide extra roads and houses.One day we might require that land to grow food and store water in order to keep everyone alive.We are quickly running out of land,and if the pound devalues substantially imported food will be too expensive.
@@davidviner4932 The original mini was one of the finest cars ever built , please don't comment unless you have an actual clue what you are talking about ......
It did and I think - generally - people had greater pride in appearance then. However these films were made with artists and cinematographers who ensured the scene was 'pretty' and 'aesthetic' prior to shooting. There are plenty of documentary films made in the same era that show the poverty and filth many lived in, still residing in Victorian slums.
They had no idea how things would be now!! People still prefer their cars to any other form of transport, despite the jams and delays, but ULEZ is the most despised thing ever devised, even transcending pot holes, poor road maintenance, road works etc.
Very prescient: now we have the congestion charge and the low emission zone to reduce the number of cars and their pollution. We also have families with two or three cars. And fuel duty +VAT as the major part of the petrol and diesel price. How did all that happen?
The recipe was :- Take a tiny over crowded island Allow millions of extra people in Concrete over as much as possible to build motorways,by-passes,housing estates. Offer the lowest ever interest rates in history so that we can all afford cars. Reduce the police numbers by 20,000 so that there won't be many traffic cops and no one is available to change the films in speed cameras Clamp down on anyone pointing out the daftness of these policies and call them " racists"
Beat up Jag at 6:02. Probably just another car to the owner of it. Wonder what happened to it over time ? Restored and still with us to this day or junk yard ?
