A34 Kingsway, South Manchester (Part 2) - Northbound Front View with Rearview Mirror скачать в хорошем качестве

A34 Kingsway, South Manchester (Part 2) - Northbound Front View with Rearview Mirror

This video covers the A34 in South Manchester from the Gatley crossroads with the A560 along Kingsway - one of Manchester's main arterial routes. The A34 is one of the longest A-roads in Britain, running for 200 miles (320km) from Winchester on the south coast to Salford near Manchester, although it is now split into two halves which are joined by the M40 motorway. The Northern section of Kingsway from Levenshulme to East Didsbury was built as a wide dual carriageway in the late 1920s, originally as the A5079. Kingsway was extended southwards in the 1950s, crossing the River Mersey and bypassing the town of Cheadle. The A34 number was previously applied to the Wilmslow Road route, but in 1967 this was applied to Kingsway. A final major change took place in the 1990s, with the construction of the Wilmslow-Handforth Bypass, and the extension of Kingsway's dual carriageway southwards for around 5.5 miles (9km). Today Kingsway is one of Manchester's busiest non-motorway arterial routes, carrying around 80,000 vehicles per day on a typical weekday. Interesingly, by driving at the 40mph speed limit, it is often possible to get a "green wave" on this section of Kingsway between East Didsbury and Levenshulme - hitting every traffic light on green. This didn't quite happen in this video as traffic speeds were a bit below the limit initially, meaning that we hit one of the Burnage lights at red. This video is available in three versions: Front View:    • A34 Kingsway, South Manchester (Part 2) - ...   Rear View:    • A34 Kingsway, South Manchester (Part 2) - ...   Front View with Rearview Mirror (this video):    • A34 Kingsway, South Manchester (Part 2) - ...   Visit the DriveCamUK website: http://sites.google.com/site/drivecamuk