The missing M12 Essex motorway and its link from the M11 motorway

Описание: What or where is the M12 motorway in Essex? People were asking. I needed answers.

I’d not considered the M12 - not every number is used for every motorway, so nothing seemed to be missing to me. But a few comments about the M12 here on YouTube, and the strange area between the carriage ways at junction 4 of the M11, meant I felt I should investigate.

Post recovering from Covid (hence the breathlessness on the film) I rode over to junction 4 of the M11 to take a look. And found the M11 on a bridge that was supposed to go over the M12.

What was this M12, where was this M12? Where was it supposed to go, and why did it not get built? Was there an M12 anywhere else in the world (spoiler - yes! but I missed it)

Equipment
The film was shot using an Apple iPhone 12 Pro, a DJI Mini 2 drone and a Lumix DMC LX100 with a Manfrotto Pixi mini tripod.
Editing was done with Apple’s Final Cut Pro
The motion graphics of the path of the motorway and the maps were done in Apple Motion and took me a while to get right!

Music
I commissioned my 12 year old son to create a small bit of music that lies under the pictures from halfway through the film. He created this in the Soundation music production software (https://soundation.com/)

Research
The fantastic Pathetic Motorways - https://pathetic.org.uk/ provided lots of context. As did the Wikipedia pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M12_mot...)

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