M1 Bridge Damage
Discussion
Love the way that the Mail is reporting a casual piece of speculation in the headline...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378308/Sp...
Amazing to think how much this is going to cost the insurers presumably, I pity anyone who needs the M1 to commute over the next few weeks/months...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378308/Sp...
Amazing to think how much this is going to cost the insurers presumably, I pity anyone who needs the M1 to commute over the next few weeks/months...
I think the key is just what some people are storing on this very cheap commercial land.
Anyone who knows that stretch knows that for nearly 7 years until recently by Mill Hill on the earstern side there was the most enormous scrap pallet pile building up, along with car tyres. Exactly the sort of thing that actually would have burnt for weeks if it had been torched. It was genuinely enormous.
Obviously, this has since been moved and is now stored at the bottom of the M1 where the A406 slip road joins from the west, so absolutely no problem there.
Anyone who knows that stretch knows that for nearly 7 years until recently by Mill Hill on the earstern side there was the most enormous scrap pallet pile building up, along with car tyres. Exactly the sort of thing that actually would have burnt for weeks if it had been torched. It was genuinely enormous.
Obviously, this has since been moved and is now stored at the bottom of the M1 where the A406 slip road joins from the west, so absolutely no problem there.
DonkeyApple said:
I think the key is just what some people are storing on this very cheap commercial land.
Anyone who knows that stretch knows that for nearly 7 years until recently by Mill Hill on the earstern side there was the most enormous scrap pallet pile building up, along with car tyres. Exactly the sort of thing that actually would have burnt for weeks if it had been torched. It was genuinely enormous.
Obviously, this has since been moved and is now stored at the bottom of the M1 where the A406 slip road joins from the west, so absolutely no problem there.
Yes, that pile of wood must have been 50 feet from base to tip? IIRC though it was adjacent as opposed to underneath the motorway....even so, it would have done some fearful damage.Anyone who knows that stretch knows that for nearly 7 years until recently by Mill Hill on the earstern side there was the most enormous scrap pallet pile building up, along with car tyres. Exactly the sort of thing that actually would have burnt for weeks if it had been torched. It was genuinely enormous.
Obviously, this has since been moved and is now stored at the bottom of the M1 where the A406 slip road joins from the west, so absolutely no problem there.
Would love to know what the costs involved are with this current situation.
There's that bit by the A5 which has never re opened. A completely new section was built.
I might be going mad but there is definitely a bit of ghost road by that junction.
Off to google earth. Will be back with a link or will have opened a bottle and put this imaginary bit of road to the back of my mind.
I might be going mad but there is definitely a bit of ghost road by that junction.
Off to google earth. Will be back with a link or will have opened a bottle and put this imaginary bit of road to the back of my mind.
inkiboo said:
The bit you are thinking of is probably here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...
The junction that comes off the M1 and under the A41.
Original start/finish point of the M1 I believe?http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...
The junction that comes off the M1 and under the A41.
DonkeyApple said:
I might be going mad but there is definitely a bit of ghost road by that junction.
My old recollection of the bottom of the M1 (which you may be referring to) was that you came off onto the slip road but the M1 proper continued on and rose up as if to flyover the whole junction, but just stopped dead in mid-air. My understanding then, was that the original plan to extend the M1 further on was scrapped (possibly in the 60's).I believe when they redesigned that whole junction in recent years, that short stub was connected up to take Westbound North Circular traffic on to the northbound M1 (the bit that now cuts across the middle of the big roundabout), so it's no longer visible as such.
Or maybe I'm going mad as well ...
inkiboo said:
No, that is fairly spot on. The M1 was going to finish at Marble Arch originally and the Westway/Old M41 was due to be part of an inner M25.
Not unlike the M40 of which there's still a fair chunk missing at the London end even though there have been substantial improvements in the missing link over the years.People took one look at the M4/Westway and said "that's enough of that"!
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