M602 motorway

M602 motorway shield

M602 motorway
Route information
Length: 4.0 mi (6.4 km)
Existed: 1971 – present
History: Constructed 1971–82
Major junctions
From: Eccles
 
J1 → M60 motorway

J1 → M62 motorway
To: Salford
Location
Primary
destinations:		 Salford
Road network

The M602 motorway is a relatively short motorway, leading traffic into Salford, towards Manchester and by-passing the suburban town of Eccles.

The motorway itself was meant to be a part of a bigger scheme, the South Lancashire Motorway. To be designated M52, the route would link Liverpool and Manchester, and would be built to provide links to the growing UK motorway network.[1][2]

However, at the same time, the M62 was being extended north and east of Worsley, around the north of Manchester, and on to Yorkshire, to form part of the Trans-Pennine Motorway route. This would be an upgraded version to the original plan of the East Lancashire Road, the A580, but would link onto the existing route at Worsley. It was decided that the Trans-Pennine Motorway be extended to Liverpool too, to provide a cross-country trunk route. The M62 was re-coursed to run via the route of the M52 between Worsley and Liverpool. That left a short stump of motorway between the M62 and Salford, which was first renumbered M64,[3] then M602. The southern end of the M62 between Worsley and Stretford became the M63.

List of junctions

Data from driver location signs are used to provide distance and carriageway identifier information.[4]

M602 motorway
mile km Westbound exits (B carriageway) Junction Eastbound exits (A carriageway)
0.0 0.0 M60 Sale, Stockport, Manchester Airport
M60 towards Bolton (M61), Bury (M66), Leeds (M62)
M62 towards Liverpool, Birmingham (M6)		 J1 Start of motorway
2.0 3.2 A576 Eccles, Salford Royal, Trafford Park J2 A576 Eccles, Salford Royal, Trafford Park
4.3 6.9 Start of motorway J3 Road continues as A57

References

  1. ↑ CBRD Motorway Database: M602
  2. ↑ Pathetic Motorways: M52
  3. ↑ Pathetic Motorways: M64 Eccles Bypass
  4. ↑ "Traffic England Live Traffic Condition Map". Locations extracted from Traffic Camera Popup. Highways Agency. Retrieved 2009-11-04.

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

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