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The M62 is a 107-mile-long (172 km) west–east trans-Pennine motorway in Northern England, connecting Liverpool and Hull via Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield; 7 miles (11 km) of the route is shared with the M60 orbital motorway around Manchester.
The M60 is 36.1 miles (58.1 km) long and was renamed the M60 in 1998, with parts of the M62, M66 and all of the M63 being amalgamated into the new route, and the circle completed in 2000. [1] The road forms part of the unsigned Euroroutes E20 and E22 from junctions 12 to 18.
The M621 is a 7.7-mile-long (12 km) loop of motorway in West Yorkshire, England that takes traffic into central Leeds between the M1 and M62 motorways. History [ edit ]
The Rakewood Viaduct carries the M62 motorway over Rakewood Valley and Longden End Brook between junctions 21 and 22 at Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England. The viaduct is 280 yards (260 m) long and 140 ft (43 m) above the valley floor. It was built in 1966 by Reed & Mallik and opened to motorway traffic in October 1971.
Access to the M62 is via junction 37 to the south, along the A614. East of Howden, the A63 has been downgraded and is now the B1230. The B1230 carries non-motorway traffic over the M62 motorway and onwards into Gilberdyke. When the B1230 was the A63, a three-mile section, through Gilberdyke and Newport, was dual carriageway.
The 7.5 mile M62 section from Ainley Top to the Chain Bar (M606 motorway) was opened at the service station by Keith Speed on Thursday 5 July 1973. The motorway section should have opened in December 1972, but there was a report into box girder bridges by Sir Alec Merrison .
The M606 is a 3-mile-long (5 km) stretch of motorway in West Yorkshire, England.Called the Bradford Spur motorway, the M606 leaves the M62 motorway at junction 26, near Cleckheaton, and heads into Bradford, to join the A6177 Bradford Ring Road.
It was built on part of the 13 mile South Lancashire Motorway section of M62 from Tar bock to Risley - the 100 acre Croft Interchange. The 27 month £15,920,634 contract had started in September 1971, by Leonard Fairclough and Alfred McAlpine. Thousands of tonnes of peat had to be excavated from Risley Mosslands, and deep stone dams were built.