When was the m62 completed

The Stretford-Eccles Bypass was the first stretch of motorway built and maintained by a local authority, in this case Lancashire County Council. The local authority acquired a load of landfill, and used it to build up the embankments for the Barton High Level Bridge. In fact, this was done before the motorway got the go-ahead. It's probably a good thing that it did! However, as an added bonus, here's a full picture of the commemorative opening stone!

Please do not copy without permission. If you link directly to a picture held on this site, please credit where you got it from Pathetic Motorways home current former unbuilt lost secretive unfinished by region features. Yes, M What on earth's that doing here? The original? And the best! Enough advertising slogans!

What's going on? But what? As usual, things didn't turn out the way that was originally planned! OK, I'll bite. What happened? The Motorway Archive. Retrieved 28 May Case Study:M62 motorway. Archived from the original on 17 October Retrieved 30 May Histories — Liverpool Inner Motorway.

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This page was last modified on 11 April , at Privacy policy About Wikishire Disclaimers. A from Liverpool becomes M No access. A Huyton , Knotty Ash. But despite the cars and lorries thundering by, work still goes on at Stott Hall even today. Maureen Furness was another person whose life was changed by the arrival of the M Mrs Furness was a teenager living in the village of Outlane, West Yorkshire, when a letter from the Ministry of Transport landed on her parents' doorstep.

You have to move out and that's it. Mrs Furness, her parents and her aunt, who also lived in Outlane, did as they were told by the ministry and moved away. It was progress. But, four decades since the Queen's visit, Mrs Furness said she was not convinced the motorway that had forced her family to move home was a good thing.

However, Mr Hunter, the main engineer behind the Pennine stretch of the M62, took a very different view of the motorway's achievements.