Why are there no bridges in East London? 

now that's a much more risky tale from the tube,

Aren't you supposed to jump in with one of the tethered roundels positioned along the riverbank? Excellent service in my experience, always picked up promptly, given a warm blanket and a hot cocoa. I can't see where to swipe my oyster though.

Lololol 😂

Considering that sewage waste is dumped into the Thames, why would anyone want to jump into the Thames?, especially the part of the Thames between Surrey and Essex, beyond Thamesmeade the Thames is so much cleaner. Imagine drowning in the section of the Thames that is most polluted by sewage?, that is a Hellish way to die, because you will get sewage waste going into your airways.

Video or it didn't happen :)

Interesting!

It's weird Tom Scott didn't bring this up in his bridge series of his very own

Hence the signs telling soldiers to break their stride on some bridges. Apparently the Broughton Suspension Bridge collapsed in 1831 because of marching soldiers.

Mechanical engineer?

He has actually covered a bridge in Ireland that does famously sway. Only a few weeks ago.

"Hello, local zoning board speaking? ...again? You know, one of these days the county's going to figure out what laws you're breaking."

Totally right! But look an the Berlin Brandenburg Airport in Germany. Even more an accident ;)

One of the consequences of thinking you're better than the Lego instructions

As a Mexican, this is more common than people might think...

@@343BlackFoxI need more context.

So glad you think so, cos that’s exactly the vibe I was going for.

@@JayForeman all that's missing is VHS static and scanlines 😂 Defo got a sub out of me, proper nostalgic plus funny and educational. Trifecta 👌

Documentaries were better back in the day, never really thought about that before. These days they'd prefer not to let the truth get in the way of a good story!

No - it is not. In the 90s and 00s we were given more objective information and taught not to be afraid of difference.

@@simonbarry6582 they meant the aesthetic. The aesthetic is the same. 🙄

i have been to london like 5 years ago on a school trip and despite not crossing any bridges, the traffic was horrendous

I really want to visit, but I'm waiting until London is finished.

Sorry but I don’t think you can travel that far in a coffin

I used to live there

@@JosephDavies so it's never then

I enjoyed my time in that park in Valencia very much.

I agree, Valencia has no traffic problem, people take the roads parallel to the river or take the Ronda Nord. Moving from Valencia to South East London was a bit of a shock with so much traffic

Doubt it, the Thames have a greater water discharge than the Turia river, and London dosen't have enogh space, money and political will to redirect the river. The olny engennering sollution I see is to build a resevoir to diverge the water than a tunnel connecting to sea, and machinery to dispose the water during low tides. Is just Impratical.

In the Dutch city of Utrecht they filled in a canal to build a motorway in the 70s because cars were gonna be the big new thing. Then a few years ago they decided "yeah nah that wasn't it" so they dug it back open and filled it with water again. It's much nicer now.

Loosing a river though does seem sad. They are so ubiquitous to cities

Guess there is no other city like London

Prague or Bratislava would be great examples. They are so unfinished

Yes! Jay would never get bored or be out of work

I wish there was something like this for NYC, mostly because it's the closest major city to where I live.

​@@reinterpret_castBasically any large European city would have a similar amount of content

Yes, in common parlance east London is north of the river. If you're dull then London postcodes can be slightly interesting. There's no NE (this is Newcastle) and whilst there's North (N), there's no South (S) which is Sheffield. There are also peculiarities in that faraway places like Wimbledon and the the Houses of Parliament both have postcodes starting SW1.

these series feel*

Not thatvdeep

Funny that any his collaboration with BBC I've seen so far turns out to be incredibly stiff as if they limit his style or write the script.

@@piotrgoacki9070 yeah that bugged me too. They hired a comedian and then limited his comedy.

@ijemand No

Uberboat sounds like a pretty viable idea actually

Uber boat is already a thing?

I think the Germans have something like that. I think it's called U-boat or something

ELIZABETH LINE OPENING TOMORROW!! You can get to Canary Wharf across the river easily!!

There is an Uber Boat in the video. Probably not the one you want though...

Yeah for the RU-vid algorithm indeed! I didnt know I wanted to watch video’s about bridges in Londen but apparently I really do!

And I also really enjoyed the ad read at the end. The amount of effort that went into this video is on par with legends like Ryan George and Daniel Thrasher.

What is this? Some kind of crossover episode?

The fact you watch all my favourites is amazing

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Depends where you shop... Tesda or Asco?? Lol😂

Is Medlife Crisis a channel? Should I follow my instinct of any friend of jays is etc you know the saying dont make me say it

Which city would that be?

My concern would be that the maintenance on a bridge designed for one kind of traffic might be too much when it comes to it supporting a different kind of traffic. Not necessarily a bad thing to use a bridge that's in decline for though.

@@chaos.corner don’t be dense. Pedestrians and cyclists don’t cause nearly as much strain or damage to a bridge designed for cars and trucks than do the cars and trucks that use it.

@@chaos.corner a person weighs like 70 kg. A car weighs more than a thousand kg. Come on.

@@riz3310 @IcedCat Right. But bridges still need maintenance beyond that caused by wear from the traffic. A bridge built for cars and trucks will need more maintenance than one built for pedestrians even if it's only being used for pedestrians. Don't be dense.

London has those, called Thames Clippers

Birssy has small population when it is compared to London. But I agree with you Brisbane is unique and brilliant with these fast boats to cross the river.

okay mr roman history expert

I figured it must have originally been something to do with shipping.

But why not start building drawbridges when that became available

It's called tower bridge but okay

dartford?

@Ghea Pubi🪐 ok

@@repentandbelieveinjesuschr7792 Nah I'm good.

@@repentandbelieveinjesuschr7792 If Jesus will show me the holes in his hands like he did for Thomas, then I'll believe in him.

The Mans taken about 15 years to put out 7 unfinished London videos but all of them are of immaculate quality.

ok

I'd vote for that!

Plus they would probably have to dam both up and down river to block tidal surges

Yeah, I imagine the Thames is probably quite valuable for tourism and whatnot, moreso than tourists would be interested in a green space.

Ah, but now the postcards would be "historic". Also, the crew of the Belfast might object.

Shit, I'm spanish and I didn't know we drained a river in Valencia

And what would they do with all the water?

Have you played Cities skylines? Because y'know, I'm somewhat of a transport engineer myself...

@@Aliquis.frigus I was playing that last night! Absolute blast. I'm studying Geography though so I don't fashion myself to be the best urban planner O_O xD

I'm in my third year of my degree now and work in the field😁 dreams come true

i'm hopefully starting an urban planning degree in september!! these videos are the best

If you like these videos I would recommend checking out Not Just Bikes channel. Filled with interesting videos that mostly cover the Netherland and the US.

Who is that man at 5:16? I don't get the reference but then I'm not British (Spain, now Vietnam)

The nose edit and phrase is a reference to Edward, a character from The League of Gentlemen ("This is a local shop for local people!") which is a British sitcom from the early 2000's.@@ixlnxs

South london desperately needs more crossings

To be fair west London is more popular so the government so spend more money there to keep bringing in cash

I've only tried to go from SE to NE London a few times and once I was stuck for 4 hours in traffic before giving up because Blackpool tunnel flooded. The queue to the boat crossing was hours long. I only wanted to drive about 5 miles.

If this were anywhere other than London you wouldn't have any crossing because the Government only invest in London. The regions may as well be an uninhabited desert

Just go to west london simple

There's another guy who's a Tom Scott wannabe called "The Tim Traveller".

And them being old friends just makes it better

I love Jay and I hate Tom Scott. Guess you're right.

@@miosz8385that’s an L

@@miosz8385 Like, personally? Seems a bit extreme.

Same

@@LOLquendoTV Same

FACTS!!!! 💯

Your next better day is in 3022

Same!

Is that because people from East London don't usually need access to universities?

@@michaeldavison9808 there are literally unis in east london 😂

@@michaeldavison9808Why wouldn’t they?

Also have you seen some of the infrastructure that has been made. It's already full of cyclists at rush hour that weren't cycling those routes a few years ago. This comes up quite a lot on cyclist twitter. You just need the right routes and whole network connectivity (ie build routes that people travel and make sure they actually up and don't drop out like most bad cycle infrastructure) and it won't even take that long for them to fill up. Part of the problem in London are councils, particularly tories councils, who are mostly able to scupper cycling schemes that actually get you into the centre of London where people work. Westminster and Wandsworth are Labour now so the opportunities are there for big improvements. RBKC is still a massive problem and red routes (and a minister needs to sign off those changes) may solve some of that but really transport and roads long term probably need to be centralised in the mayoral office in a rare case of the UK needing less centralisation.

@@mytimetravellingdog The pandemic had a lot to do with the increase in cycling in London. It's probably the only good thing that came out of it

"At the coalface", what a wonderfully British metaphor.

The bike circle in downtown Croydon is absolutely useless and makes travel a huge pain in the ass. I've literally never seen a bike there ever. It just makes going to and from your hotel an absolute nightmare and a great way to pay extra for your uber or minicab getting lost just trying to go one block. Why not take public transit, you ask? Because the tram doesn't run after midnight! So trying to get back from your buddy's house in Sutton late at night means you have no choice but to call a cab.

Beautiful comment 👏

Yknow you could just watch mapmen

Cool! I have a Geography undergraduate degree. 🙂

Literally just drive to west london so much easier.

FINALLY somebody gets the reference! 🍬

which city is that, if I may ask?

That's the problem with public transit... If you don't have a decent system first, building just part of a decent system will seem very wasteful. We really need to plan ahead at timescale we're not accustomed to.

@@Furko08 my guess based on their username would be Boston. If ur into urban planning it’s kind of an odd mix of a city. It’s kinda the best and also a little bit sorta the worst. Still probably the best big city in the country, besides maybe Chicago (which probably won’t hold that title for long either way)

@@travcollier B-But "thinking and planning ahead", "being selfless and considerate", and "acknowledging public transportation as legitimate" are *un-American!* You can get yourself lynched in worryingly large parts of the USA/by a worryingly large amount of citizens of the USA for even _thinking_ like that!

We get that in Portland as well. There's plenty of bridges, but they definitely dictate how one gets from *here* to *there* and if you go too far south you get stuck quickly. And then there's other issues like the main bridge Clackamas County uses not being in Clackamas so they keep voting down attempts to get them to help fund it instead of saying "make Sellwood pay for it, it's their bridge".

And let's not forget, the Thames is tidal as well.

The amount of former rivers that got pressed into the London sewage system...

That was done in Franco times when the dictator could do what he liked. Impossible to do in London. Also the British government are not capable of doing even moderate infrastructure projects without it going 10 times over budget. So its better they dont try.

Maybe London could drain the Thames, but only in the eastern part? 👌

Quite a few bridges over the new river, and of course there is the road either side as well, used to be a lot more rural until you got to Alfafar, Benetússer and Parque Alcosa etc. The one thing the new river always seem to lack, is water!

Yep, I live right next to the riverside and something that's 0.5 miles away can take up to 30 minutes to get to on a good day

Would this be on the same or opposite side of the river?

@@themaskedmaestro4699 Wow. Sounds like a great opportunity to become an olympic swimmer...

@@themaskedmaestro4699 one of the issiues bridges are like funnels, people people who want to use a bridge the more congested it can get. for my job since i live in a small village, i have to go to town which is 27 min (21.5 miles). although i do think most people get traffic work im not a expert but people forgot if you ban cars, everyone has to walk or bike if you ban walking then people have to use cars and bikes? your basically moving traffic type around like a juggler. then you have the amount of traffic and bridges if you only have 1 bridge 100% traffic will use it, if you have 3-4 bridges traffic will be more split up depending on where people live and work i personally think most minds sets are also to point of local traffic only for most people

typical lazy millenial mentality. just learn to swim

Could you give us some examples? I can't offhand think of one which is built on both sides of the mountains.

@@rosiefay7283 Yes, could you please provide some examples?

El Paso, TX

Also Montreal, QC. It's not technically a mountain (though we do call it the mountain, or Mont Royal), but a big ass hill that's mostly forest and park area. Going to the other side of it is quite the trek, and culturally each side is pretty distinct.

@@rosiefay7283 I live in Monterrey Mexico (metro area of 4.6 mil.), some examples of parts divided by the mountains are Cumbres and Santa Catarina, Carretera and Guadalupe, Valle Oriente and Independencia, etc.

Also Istanbul.

@@jonathanmelhuish4530 some other cities in Turkey have ferry service as well. İzmir and İstanbul are the only services reasonable enough for commuters though.

And Brisbane will need to continue improving on it. If they want a seamless Olympics in 2032, they have to.

@@ianhomerpura8937 what transport role do you think the Brisbane ferries will play in the Olympics?

That is fantastic, good spot!

I think that sums up London. I'm always knackered when I come back from there, for a place with so many transit systems you seem to end up having to walk your legs off there going anywhere.

I LOL'ed when I saw that and decided I had to comment! Glad to see I was beaten to it :-)

@@Darth_Chicken It helps explain why there are far fewer overweight people there too compared to other parts of the UK. Bad public transport so you rely on driving has other long term negative effects you often overlook.

@@TalesOfWar More likely is money. People with money tend to be in better shape. Poor people usually don't eat healthy foods and are statistically more overweight. Plus they are lazy. Also, large cities like London are a destination for attractive tourists and locals with money.

Can we deduce from this that Jay lives in North West London?

@@stevecriddle3299 He lives in Enfield

Unfinished London Ep. 99; "In other words: Why is Fallen London better than Surface London?"

We can tell from this that northwest London is the best part of London.

@@kurabis nae, the bestest part.

At least you have public transportation here in the US good luck finding any out side of the realy big city's

@@jeffarbogash4269 London is a really big city though

Argh, the Blackwall Tunnel - hell on earth. Still, there's always the Woolwich Ferry...

@@jeffarbogash4269 Yeah, I was going to say, if London's public transport is falling behind, I hate to think what that makes most of the USA 😂

I think he may have overlooked the amount of freight and trade that is transported on the dartford blackwall crossings. We need better connections especially with the ports actually a major part of the infrastructure in the south east

!remindme

@Animation 🅥 no

I'll make sure not to make other plans that day.

...if Jay lives that long. He doesn't seem very confident.

its friday may 27 2022 not may 27 3022

it’s because the area is poor and frankly there’s no demand.

City planners will always invest in areas of the city that produce the most income, any tourists travel in east London? Tourists spend money, lots of it; that's your answer! Same everywhere, no tourists go to Watts in L.A., too dangerous, but they do still go to Hollywood to see the stupid sign, and the stars on the streets!

@Killjoy That is simply not true. There is so much money in East London now it’s unbelievable. The continued growth to the east side of London is alarming and I’m surprised the environmentalists are not hitting the roof. You talk about it being so poor….well, they have solved that problem by forcing out the poor and sending them to Clacton. If you’re looking to make big gains in property, East London is the place to be.

It’s funny you mention Watts as an example, I’m from London but when I went to LA as a tourist I drove down to Watts one day to see the Watts towers, which I thought was really cool, had a nice little walk around the immediate area too such as the park and the arts centre there. I see what you mean about the area being dangerous though, frankly it’s embarrassing that in a city as wealthy as LA, the conditions that existed in that neighbourhood resembled something like a South American favela. The few locals I spoke to by the arts centre were lovely though

@@Sabotaz80xx like a lot of areas in L.A. they were once nice, long ago, when the Watts towers were built by that artist. I think he was an immigrant, at the time. Things change in big cities, all over the world, usually not for the better. At least no wars will ever happen here, like they are in Ukraine, except for a nuke war, of course, then the perpetrator country, take your pick of a few, will be utterly destroyed as well.

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Same, and i hope the bots above here or people get cancer

Hallo, ik ben ook Nederlands! Fijn om een andere nl gast te zien hier

@@TechnicallyLogical2009 Nobody cares, Jamie

@@TechnicallyLogical2009 Hier mag er nieg gekoloniseerd worden

Can you explain the reference (at 5:18) for us non-locals? Thanks!

@@drbarnack1885 It's a reference to a rather surreal BBC comedy show "The League Of Gentlemen" (no relation to the film). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-meF7NmfnXZ0.html

D'oh, I thought it was someone else.

Glad others picked up on it too, nice one.

Hello Dave……

Yes, this.

Why would you think biscuits have anything to do with London? The city has become a cesspool of violence and filth. Less than half the population is now white British - there is nothing English about it. Only hellfire will cleanse it.

You can call your cookies whatever you like!

Yes...😊

@@paulhaynes8045 That seems a bit assive paggressive.

@@krashd Naw, just a good ol' southern boy, from the same state as Bill and Hillary Clinton. Now do you get why!! :D LOL

When’s the BBC Four documentary series coming out?

What tv have you watched without adverts??

@@Deenaziamazinjg14 anything on the BBC

@@Deenaziamazinjg14 Well a) the BBC and b) I meant that it's that kind of advert that feels especially RU-vid like

@@Ghiaman1334 welcome to RU-vid ya goof

I love San Fran ahaha

And we still probably have one of the top ten systems in the states... And I try to play tourist and take the ferry home sometimes, although not in pandemic years. (And thank you for commenting on the ferries, so I didn't have to, although I seem to have had no problem responding.)

I remember how much the ferry system was used after Bayquake 89.

Vancouver is probably the best example of it, I was taking water taxis constantly while on vacation there without a car

And despite the 10 lanes and billions of dollars spend on it, the Bay Bridge still only carries only half the number of people at rush hour that the 2 lane Bart tube does. Transit - and rail transit in particular - is a much better investment than car infrastructure, as Jay points out.

Oddly enough it's the east side of Charlotte that is the wealthier side, especially the southeast side - but then Charlotte's growth has mostly been since the mid-20th century and it is far less densely populated than older cities. The river running north-south a few miles west of town also seems to limit connectivity and growth on the western side of town.

Well that's interesting. Makes sense.

I can tell you, at least for Milan, it's not the case.

East side poor because river is bigger. River bigger means docks. Docks are inevitably full of working class people, so working class people like to live near docks and non-working class people like to live nearer to a lack of docks.

This is exactly the case in Oslo, Norway

I think that they've said it before, they just happen to both do Mondays at 4

@@Telly_1 yeah, still it's funny

I wonder if they hire assistance from the same ‘walk backwards and film a monologue’ company

@@DoABarrelRol1l 😂😂

Now I know where I saw this before

there are two words he could've said when he censored "and full of c****"

Do you know why he looks like that? 😭

@@aquamech154 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-meF7NmfnXZ0.html

@@aquamech154 no

@@aquamech154 League of Gentlemen

I can't find anyone else in the comments talking about this??

Valencia is very beautiful, if only there was better employment opportunities out there, I would actually go and live there.

I'm sorry you are too late to see real the London :(

@@raijinenel3116 Yes, I went there first time in 1980, then back again in 2007, mostly the same but "different" in many ways too.

@yuitr loing or a horse of a "different colour", eh? ;D

I'm also from medway and seeing old photos tram cars and trolley buses makes me so upset that there gone, medway would gain so much from trams. Gillingham is stuck on a hill, Rainham is in the middle of nowhere, Chatham is dying from being stuck in a valley and austerity, Rochester is a potential tourist centre and Strood is just a mess. Won't fix everything but could definitely be a step in putting medway on the map.

Greetings fellow Medway'er. It never even occured to me we could use a light rail system but damn would that be helpful. I find it fascinating how a network of towns that at this point has basically fused into one centreless city could have such patchy public transport but here we are. It feels like you have to change at every station for the train, and in regards to buses my area only has one and it barely survived covid without getting removed. I moved to London to study and every time I come back to visit I have to reorient myself to a completely different way of getting around. A mini light rail or tram that logically connects the different towns as they exist today would be a godsend.

And they all look just the same!

We don't seem to matter to Jay as not in London... At least kenex got a mention, I dont know if it will happen, been in planning by a private company, AFAIK. Who will pay? Thurrock Council bankrupt and can't even build an pedestrian underpass they had promised years ago at the notorious Grays Level Crossing. Will be nice to better link the two sides of the river. I basically never go to Kent. Blackwall tunnel was closed this weekend, and it caused all kinds of gridlock near the QE2 Bridge and surrounding areas. While it would be nice to have other options to cross by car, it will induce demand. Outside London however it isn't the same, train every 30 mins, no buses near enough to be useful. I do have a bike, however, and try to use it when I don't need the car, but most people here drive and won't be giving it up without a fight.

The long absences are just because it takes me aaaaaages to make my videos.

@@JayForeman That's why your videos always trend when you upload as it's due to the high quality content you create and high quality research you conduct. Keep up the great work.

@@JayForeman binging your videos entertaining and informative! A quality combination. My brother just showed me the ring road one

@@mastersingleton It's not about caculating absences. The 'Trending' page is essentially a 'RU-vid staff picks'. It seems they've specified particular thresholds for videos of particular channels, of which Jay is fortunate to be part of.

@@ASLUHLUHCE no it isn't lol

Good luck and Happy Birthday!

@@Davey-Boyd thank you! that's so kind! have a lovely evening!

good luck! I’m watching this on a break from studying for uni exams which are 2 days away lol. at 4am for some reason

Good luck!

Happy birthday! Hope it goes/is going/went well! And if not, I'm sure there'll be a skillshare promo at some point too! ;-)

Thought you just had a stutter until I realised what the Gs meant

So it started around the time of railways coming around and ended when moaterways was popping up everywhere. Cool