M60 motorway

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	M60 motorway in the UK
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	Basic data
Operator:	Highways Agency
Overall length:	58 km (36 mi )
Countries :	England
	The M60 under a railway viaduct at Stockport
	Greater Manchester

The M60 motorway ( English for, M60 ') is a 58 km (36 mile) motorway in England that a ring road around Manchester forms. This is why it is also called the Manchester Orbital and is the only complete ring road in the country (the M25 around London is longer, but is interrupted to the east by the A282). In addition to most of the city of Manchester (excluding Wythenshawe and Manchester Airport), cities such as Salford and Eccles are also within the ring that runs through all of Greater Manchester's metropolitan boroughs , with the exception of Wigan and Bolton .

history

The M60 was created by combining three motorways: M62, M63 and M66. Only the last section between junctions 19 and 24 was actually opened as the M60.

section	Original highway
AS 01 - AS 12	Motorway M63
AS 12 - AS 18	Motorway M62
AS 18 - AS 19	Motorway M66
AS 19 - AS 24	Motorway M60
AS 24 - AS 25	Motorway M66
AS 25 - AS 01	Motorway M63

Construction of the last section, August 1999

The first section opened in 1960 between AS 7 and 13 and was one of the first highways in the United Kingdom. At that time, this section was numbered M62, which was only intended to serve as a western bypass of Manchester and Salford. With the construction of the bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, the construction of the country's highways began, ahead of the more famous sections of the M6 at Preston or the M1 between Watford and Rugby .

The next section was created as part of the M62 motorway now planned as from the west coast to the east coast between today's AS 12 and 18, with the opening in 1971. After the opening of the section towards Liverpool, the part south of the Worsley interchange was given the number M63. This was extended in a series of further bypasses piece by piece to the east, to today's AS 25, with the completion in 1982. The small part between the AS 18 and 19 on the then M66 Motorway was built as the southern part of the Bury bypass, with the Opening in 1975. In 1989 the section from Stockport to Denton (connection to the M67 Motorway ) was opened and designated as the M66.

Construction of the missing section of the M66 between Bury and Denton did not begin until the late 1990s. Although it was planned as the M66, after opening in October 2000, like the aforementioned motorways, it became part of the new M60 ring road.

Others

The Simister Interchange motorway junction

From 1987 to May 2006, the motorway had a one-mile-long feeder near Sale (on AS 8), which was numbered A6144 (M). It was exceptional in the UK in that it was entirely two-lane with no hard shoulder, while other two-lane motorways are at least partially four-lane. Today this feeder is part of the A6144.
The node at AS 18 ( Simister Interchange ) is an example of a roundabout node . There is a TOTSO - coming from the east you continue on the M66, while from the west the road that continues is number M62. The roundabout itself has been expanded to six lanes and has a pair of traffic lights on each entrance.
Today's AS 25 would originally have been a motorway junction - to this day you can recognize it by the gap between the two lanes, which should possibly have been the junction ramps of the future junction. To the east, the M63 would run further north of Bredbury , while to the south there would be the A6 (M), a short motorway east of Stockport and Hazel Grove .

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : M60 motorway - Collection of images, videos and audio files

M60 on cbrd.co.uk

[1] Pathetic Motorways: M62 Stretford-Eccles Bypass

[2] CBRD: Motorway Database - A6144 (M)

[3] CBRD: Bad Junctions - Simister Interchange

[4] Pathetic Motorways: A6 (M) Stockport Bypass