Did i dream this road?

[fjord]

I seem to recall a story/picture of a house in the middle of a motorway. Story goes that the developers wanted to bulldoze the house to make way for the road, the owner refused to sell/give it up, so they just went around it, with the house in the middle of 6 lanes of traffic, 3 on each side of it.

Did this ever happen, or did i make it all up?

[mat13]

Thats the M62 in west yorkshire. Bit more detail in the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/200...

[PHuzzy]

Pretty sure it was in China or Japan but no you didn't dream it.

Edit: Found it... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/chi...

Edited by PHuzzy on Tuesday 22 April 02:56

[blueg33]

mat13 said:

Thats the M62 in west yorkshire. Bit more detail in the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/200...

Every time I drive that bit of road I think to myself, surely its better ti take the compulsory purchase money than have 6 lanes of motorway at bedroom window level just a few metres away.

[226bhp]

blueg33 said:

Every time I drive that bit of road I think to myself, surely its better ti take the compulsory purchase money than have 6 lanes of motorway at bedroom window level just a few metres away.

You didn't read the link provided then?

[blueg33]

226bhp said:

You didn't read the link provided then?

No

I will

Edited

Now read the link.

Under current CP rules it would have been purchased anyway, it was obviously different back in the day, although I have been through CP registers from that time when all sorts was bought unecessarily.

Edited by blueg33 on Tuesday 22 April 07:27

[rek]

PHuzzy said:

Pretty sure it was in China or Japan but no you didn't dream it.

Edit: Found it... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/chi...

Edited by PHuzzy on Tuesday 22 April 02:56

Is that a Rover outside the front?

[chonok]

With the m62, why couldn't they have just diverted both lanes around the same side of the farm?

[Baz Tench]

It's covered in this documentary - 'The secret life of the Motorway'.

Scroll forward to about 15mins in.

Apparently, the ground the house is stood on was too unstable to support the motorway, so they shored it up and built it around the house.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2srR9wMM1k

[226bhp]

chonok said:

With the M62, why couldn't they have just diverted both lanes around the same side of the farm?

Good question. I believe above it is too steep and rocky, below is the same and there is a reservoir.
Maybe by the time they got that far and realised it was too late to divert, probably down to budget as per...

[226bhp]

Google map link:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.6416178,-1.95204...

[davamer23]

rek said:

Is that a Rover outside the front?

Looks like it, believe it's a Roewe 750 in China. See what they did there?

[Shaw Tarse]

Baz Tench said:

It's covered in this documentary - 'The secret life of the Motorway'.

Scroll forward to about 15mins in.

Apparently, the ground the house is stood on was too unstable to support the motorway, so they shored it up and built it around the house.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2srR9wMM1k

One is enjoying that television show, very well spoken people on it

[coppice]

Great rural myths of our time- of course it'd have been bought by CPO if necessary ...

[fjord]

Cheers guys, watched that documentary and confirms it was just a myth. Thanks PH