The Missing East London Motorway Junctions

Why does the M11 start at Junction 4? Everytime I drove up the M11, I was surprised at how far I’d got so quickly, reaching junction 6 before it seemed reasonable. After doing this a bunch of times, I bothered to actually look on the map and found out that the junction where I joined the M11 from the A406 North Circular Road - the beginning of the M11 as far as I was aware - was numbered as junction 4. This explained how I reached junction 6 so quickly, but it didn’t explain where junctions 1, 2 and 3 of the M11 were.

So I decided to look into it, and made this film about it. I think it is broadly correct but I may have missed things - do let me know in the comments if I have, and any other points of interest.

Equipment
The film was shot mostly on a DJI Mini 2 drone, using Skyreat neutral density filters
Other shots were caught on a Lumix DMC LX100 with a Manfrotto Pixi mini tripod
Editing was done with Apple’s Final Cut Pro
Diagrams and other motion graphics were done in Apple Motion

Music
The tiny bits of music are:
1) The Big Beat 80s by Kevin MacLeod and Syrinx Starr
2) Cloud Wheels, Castle Builder by Puddle of Infinity
Both are from the YouTube Audio Library.
The M11 protest singing comes from the film ‘You’ve got to be choking’, about the direct action held against the building of the M11 link road. View that film here    • You've got to be choking -direct acti...  

Research
A brilliant book about the London Ringway, ‘Rings Around London’, provided great information. Buy it on Amazon here https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/185414421...

The incredible Roads.org.uk website provides a ton of information and is a real labour of love - https://www.roads.org.uk/ringways/

The Sabre Roads forum can also be a really good source of information - https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/

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