M62 motorway

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M62 motorway in the UK
M62 motorway
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Course of the M 62
Basic data
Operator: Highways Agency
Start of the street: Liverpool
( 53 ° 24 ′  N , 2 ° 54 ′  W )
End of street: near Kingston upon Hull
( 53 ° 46 ′  N , 0 ° 41 ′  W )
Overall length: 172 km (106.9  mi )

Countries :

England

M62 J22 from Pennine Way.JPG
The M62 at Junction 22 in the Pennines at its highest point
Course of the road
Merseyside
On to  LiverpoolA5058 A5080
Autobahn beginning Start of the Autobahn
Junction on the left (4)  Knotty Ash, Childwall, Broadgreen Hospital ( HAS Liverpool)
A5080
Junction on the left (5)  Huyton, Knotty Ash A5080
node (6)  Liverpool (S), Liverpool Airport , Huyton, Prescot ,
Runcorn M57 A5080 A5300
Junction on the left (7)  St Helens , Prescot, Widnes , Warrington
A57 A557 A570
Cheshire
Junction on the left (8th)  Warrington (W), Burtonwood
Gas station Rest stop Burtonwood (at the previous junction)
Junction on the left (9)  Warrington (Cen), Newton A49
node (10)  Preston , Birmingham , Chester , Southport M6 ( M56)
Junction on the left (11)  Warrington (E), Birchwood A574
Greater Manchester
node (12)  Bolton , Bury , Leeds , Salford , Manchester ,
Manchester Airport , Ring Road (N, S & E)M60 M602
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Interruption by the M60 Motorway
Greater Manchester
node (18)  Bolton , Bury , Blackburn , Salford , Preston , Manchester ,
Manchester Airport , Ring Road (W, E & S)M60 M66
Gas station Rest stop Birch
Junction on the left (19)  Middleton, Heywood A6046
node (20)  Oldham , RochdaleAM627
Junction on the left (21)  Milnrow , Shaw A640 A6193
West Yorkshire
Junction on the left (22)  Saddleworth A672
Junction on the left (23)  Huddersfield (HAS Liverpool)A640
Junction on the left (24)  Huddersfield, Halifax A629
Junction on the left (25)  Brighouse, Dewsbury, Huddersfield A644( A62)
Gas station Rest stop Hartshead Moor
node (26)  Bradford , Leeds Bradford Airport , Cleckheaton, Halifax
M606 A58 A638
node (27)  Bradford , Leeds , Batley, MorleyM621 A62 A650
Junction on the left (28)  Leeds, Dewsbury, Leeds Bradford Airport A650 A653
node (29)  London , Leeds, Wakefield, The NORTH M1 ( M621)
Junction on the left (30)  Rothwell , Wakefield A642
flow Calder
Junction on the left (31)  Castleford, Normanton A655
Junction on the left (32)  Pontefract , CastlefordA639
node (32A)  The NORTH, The SOUTH , Doncaster , Wetherby AM1
Junction on the left (33)  The SOUTH, Doncaster, Pontefract, Knottingley A162( A1)
Gas station Rest stop Ferrybridge (at the previous junction)
North Yorkshire
Junction on the left (34)  Selby , DoncasterA19
East Riding of Yorkshire
node (35)  The SOUTH, Doncaster , ScunthorpeM18
Junction on the left (36)  Goole A614
flow Ouse
Junction on the left (37)  Bridlington, Howden , Selby, York A614 ( A63)
Junction on the left (38)  North Cave , Gilberdyke B1230
Autobahn end End of the highway
Continue on  Hull , BeverleyA63

The M62 motorway ( English for 'Motorway M62') is a motorway in the north of England , which runs in a west-east direction from Liverpool via Manchester and Leeds and ends about 25 km before Kingston upon Hull . It is part of the European roads E20 ( Shannon - Saint Petersburg ) and E22 ( Holyhead - Ishim ) and 172 km (107 mi) long. It shares 7 miles of the route with the M60 , the motorway ring of Manchester. The total cost of the motorway, adjusted for inflation, was around £ 765 million. With an average traffic volume of 100,000 vehicles a day, it is particularly prone to congestion on the section between Leeds and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire .

The motorway runs on flat terrain between Liverpool and Manchester and east of Leeds. The section between Manchester and Leeds, on the other hand, is of a hilly character, as the Pennines are crossed here. The motorway reaches its highest point at 372 m above sea level. NN - this is also the highest point on a motorway in the United Kingdom.

history

planning

The origins of the M62 go back to the 1930s when the authorities of the adjacent counties recognized the need for a motorway between Lancashire and Yorkshire . At the same time it was envisaged that the two ports of Liverpool and Hull would be linked with the Yorkshire industrial zones.

A few years later in the post-war period, engineers were hired by the Department of Transportation to assess the conditions for a motorway construction between Salford and Selby . The road plan of 1949 already provided for a road with no height and two structurally separate lanes. In 1952, the route of a motorway over the Pennines, called The Lancashire – Yorkshire Motorway , with the end point at Ferrybridge was determined. In the 1960s, however, the original plan to develop the A580 in Lancashire as a motorway was rejected and a new route to the south was decided. In the course of this, the route in Yorkshire was also reconsidered. When the engineer James Drake visited the USA in 1962, he was convinced by the concept of the interstate network to build a continuous motorway up to the connection to the M63 near Worlsey in the west of Greater Manchester . The further course to the eastern end point at Ferrybridge was first built as the M63 and renamed the M62 in 1999. A continuation to Hull was not planned before 1964. Although these plans were initially rejected by the Ministry of Transport, they were finally added to the Road Plan in 1963 .

construction

Liverpool – Manchester

Original plans included building a separate city motorway around the center of Liverpool and connecting it to the M62. However, this was later discarded, so the M62 was allowed to end in the center of Liverpool.

Initially, the section between Liverpool and Manchester was intended as a separate motorway, but later a continuous motorway via the Pennines to Leeds (referred to as the M52 after its completion) was considered more worthwhile. Construction of the first section between the M57 and M6 motorways began in 1971. The second section between the M6 ​​and Salford was completed by August 1974. This created a continuous motorway from Ferrybridge to Tarbock , a suburb of Liverpool.

The small section between Tarbock and the center of Liverpool was completed in 1976 due to the difficult construction in the urban area. A total of two viaducts, ten bridges and seven underpasses had to be built here to ensure the integration of the built-up areas. The motorway officially begins at junction 4 (Queens Drive) , as the construction of the first three exits had been discarded.

Greater Manchester

The construction of the M60 / M62 in Greater Manchester, which began in 1968

In Greater Manchester, the M62 also uses the section of the M60 , the Manchester ring road , which runs northwest of Manchester . The section of the ring, completed in 1960, between today's junctions 7 and 13 is identical to the M62 from the Eccles junction (12). The direct continuation past Eccles to Salford is now called the M602 motorway , its extension is the A57 road . 67 bridges as well as seven viaducts and eight junctions were built along the other joint section opened in 1971 up to the Simister cross (18).

Manchester – Lofthouse (near Leeds)

The first Yorkshire section between Windy Hill and Outlane opened in 1970. The construction from Cross Simister to Windy Hill was a difficult undertaking due to the hilly and boggy terrain and poor weather conditions. A total of 9.2 million m 3 of earth was moved - 6.1 million m 3 of this was solid rock and 0.5 million m 3 peat. In addition, the highway had to be divided over a length of about one kilometer due to a farm. At the same time, the following section between Gildersome and Lofthouse was opened, with parts of the village of Tingley being demolished in favor of a junction of the same name.

East of Lofthouse

The next section was completed in 1974 in two sections between Lofthouse and Ferrybridge. In the first section, the main focus was on crossing the calder , the banks of which consist of alluvial alluvial soil. The second section was built on old coal mines.

The bridge over the Ouse and its floodplain

The section between Ferrybridge and North Cave is the easternmost of the M62. The most noteworthy structure is the bridge over the Ouse east of Goole. It is a good one kilometer long and up to 30 m high. Its construction began in 1973.

The construction of the bridge dragged on due to problems in the delivery of steel and a partial collapse of the scaffolding. Therefore, the section leading over the bridge east of Goole could not be opened until 1976.

Further development

A1 (M) and M62 motorway junction at Ferrybridge , West Yorkshire

In 1987, the Department of Transport proposed the construction of a bypass running parallel to the M62 in order to reduce the risk of congestion in Greater Manchester. The proposal also included the closure of Junction 13. The plan was initially declared a long-term goal, but was ultimately abandoned on November 23, 1995.

In December 2002, two new junctions were opened in Greater Manchester between the Eccles and Simister motorway junctions, giving the motorway access to the A574 and the Omega Development Site . Since January 2006, the new junction 32a has connected the motorway with the recently upgraded A1 (M) . The UK's first high-occupancy vehicle lane was opened for traffic coming from Bradford on the M606 ; Any vehicle occupied by more than one person may travel on it. A proposal to widen the motorway to four lanes in each direction is in the planning phase.

Incidents

In the course of the existence of the Autobahn, it became the scene of two major events: On February 4, 1974, a bomb exploded in a coach between Chain Bar (26) and Gildersome (27). The bus was on an off-duty trip with members of the British Army and their families. The detonation killed 12 people and injured 38 others. The Provisional Irish Republican Army was blamed for the attack. (see: Bus stop on the M62 )

At 6:13 a.m. on February 28, 2001, the driver of a Land Rover fell asleep behind the wheel. Immediately before the bridge over the East Coast Main Line , his vehicle came off the roadway, fell down the embankment and remained on the railroad track. The driver tried to make an emergency call, but at that moment a GNER train collided with the vehicle on the track and derailed as a result. Immediately afterwards, an oncoming freight train raced into the scene of the accident. Ten people (including both train drivers) were killed and a further 82 injured by the accident.

Route

The motorway is at or near Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Hull and numerous other cities. It has four different feeder motorways: the M602 coming from Manchester , the 627 (M) from Oldham and Rochdale , the M606 from Bradford and the M621 from Leeds . Although Hull is one of the main destinations on the highway, it ends at North Cave , about 25 km from the Hull city limits.

The motorway begins on Queen's Drive , Liverpool 's middle ring road. Further east it meets the M57 , the motorway that passes Liverpool. At Warrington it crosses with the M6 in the form of a Maltese cross . The M62 then crosses a large moor called Chat Moss before it joins the M60 at Cross Eccles on the western edge of Salford in Greater Manchester .

The M62 near Irlam , during the blue hour

In Greater Manchester, the motorway shares junctions 12 to 18 with the M60 , the Manchester ring road. This section includes the Worsley junction, where the M61 branches off to Preston .

The M62 as part of a dam in West Yorkshire

Near junction 22, the motorway in the east direction has an additional lane due to the steep incline in some parts, in order to pass the Yorkshire border shortly afterwards and to cross the A672. Here with 372 m above sea level. NN passes the highest point of a motorway in the UK. From here it is 11 km through the Pennines to the next exit (22), where you drive along the dam of Scammonden Water . The following junction 23 can only be used by traffic heading west. Next you come to a valley and junction 24, then continue slightly downhill to cross the A644 at junction 25. Between junctions 22 and 25, the motorway marks the border between the boroughs of Calderdale and Kirklees .

At junction 26 (Chain Bar) the motorway intersects with several roads: first the M606, a motorway slip road from Bradford, second the A58, and third the A638 from Doncaster . At the next junction, another motorway feeder branches off with the M621. At the Lofthouse junction (29) the M62 crosses with the M1. East of Leeds is the next junction with Wakefield; shortly afterwards the calder is crossed. Next, the A1 (M) is crossed at junction 32a. The next exit is for the A162 and the Ferrybridge rest area . From here the motorway is largely level, with the exception of the bridge over the Ouse. Almost 20 km after the bridge, near North Cave, it merges into the A63 and loses its status as such.

The two lanes enclose the Stott Hall Farm buildings west of Huddersfield ( 53 ° 38 ′ 30.2 ″  N , 1 ° 57 ′ 6.3 ″  W ) to the north and south. The farm was seen by many as a nail house with which they tried to obtain higher compensation. The reason for the location of the buildings in the middle between the carriageways, however, is that the subsurface in precisely this area would have made the direct, parallel six-lane expansion very difficult and that a route around the building was therefore the simpler solution. The farm continues to operate and is connected to the surrounding area via underpasses; it is used again and again by drivers in emergency situations.

Traffic balance

Traffic volume 1999–2006

The M62 had an average traffic volume of around 100,000 vehicles a day east of the Pennines and 78,000 vehicles west of the Pennines in 2006. The boundary between the two sections is defined by the connection point 22. The traffic volume in 1999 was 90,000 or 70,000 vehicles a day. For comparison, the busiest stretch of motorway in the UK is part of the M25 , London's ring road , with 144,000 vehicles daily. The high traffic in the area makes the M62 motorway between Halifax and Gildersome one of the most congested in Great Britain.

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ The cost of capital would have been around £ 412 million at 1985 inflation. The inflation rate was taken here .
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  7. ^ M62: Eccles to county boundary . The Motorway Archive. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iht.org
  8. ↑ a b c d M62 in West Yorkshire . The Motorway Archive. Archived from the original on February 21, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iht.org
  9. ↑ a b c d e M62: Queens Drive to Eccles . Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iht.org
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  17. ↑ a b M62: Windy Hill Outlane . The Motorway Archive. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iht.org
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  30. ↑ Chris Marshall: M62 East - Junction 38 . In: Motorway simulator . Chris's British Road Directory. Retrieved on November 17, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cbrd.co.uk  
  31. ↑ Chris Marshall: M62 East - Uneven surface (Chat Moss) . In: Motorway simulator . Chris's British Road Directory. Retrieved on November 17, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cbrd.co.uk  
  32. ↑ Chris Marshall: M62 East - Gain in lane (Windy Hill) . In: Motorway simulator . Chris's British Road Directory. Retrieved on November 17, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cbrd.co.uk  
  33. ↑ Chris Marshall: M62 East - Junction 24 . In: Motorway simulator . Chris's British Road Directory. Retrieved on November 17, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cbrd.co.uk  
  34. ↑ Chris Marshall: M62 West - Slow Lorries (Brighouse-Halifax) . In: Motorway simulator . Chris's British Road Directory. Retrieved on November 17, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cbrd.co.uk  
  35. ↑ Waste Management Strategy (PDF) Calderdale MBC. Retrieved November 17, 2007.
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  38. ↑ M62 Junctions 24 to 27 . In: In Depth: Traffic Congestion . Retrieved May 30, 2007. 

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