M60 motorway
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The M60 motorway is an orbital motorway which completely encircles Manchester.
The original plan called for a completely new motorway, but policy change led to the plan which created the current motorway. As soon as it opened, the motorway got close to its projected maximum volume on significant sections. There is talk of some sections becoming toll sections, and there is still talk of building a new oribital motorway as proposed by the original plan.
The M60 was developed by connecting and consolidating the existing motorway sections of the M63, M62, and an extended M66.
As an orbital motorway, it is equivalent to London's M25 motorway, however, unlike its London counterpart, the M60 is a complete circle (the stretch over the Thames at Dartford is not a motorway, but the A282).
Junctions
- Stockport
- Cheadle
- Cheadle
- Cheadle, junction 1 of the M56
- Gatley/south City of Manchester
- east Sale
- Stretford, Sale (Currently being re-developed)
- Urmston
- Trafford and Trafford Centre
- Eccles and Trafford Centre
- Irlam
- Eastbound: M602 J1, Westbound:M62 J12 (for Warrington and Merseyside)
- Swinton
- Tyldesley
- Walkden
- M61 J1, Farnworth
- Pendlebury, Kearsley
- Whitefield, Prestwich
- Whitefield, Middleton, M66 J4
- Middleton
- Chadderton
- Oldham, Failsworth
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Denton, M67
- Bredbury
- Stockport
- Stockport
See also
External links
- CBRD Motorway Database - M60 (http://www.cbrd.co.uk/motorway/60.shtml)