Secrets of The Motorway - M602
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2023
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Back in Manchester... again. I don't seem to be able to escape. In this episode we're exploring the M602 motorway, which you've probably not heard of and I wouldn't blame you given it's so short. In fact, this might be the shortest episode to date.
The M602 came about as the result of... well, you know what I'm going to say... a cancelled motorway plan. In this instance, it was more a case of the M602 being a left over from larger projects and we had to do something with it so... the M602 then.
In this series we aim to explore what our motorway network is hiding. As we drive along at 70mph..ish...we simply just wouldn't be aware of what we're missing. This series aims to uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer.
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If you are leaving Manchester and end up being the 1st car stopped at the lights at Junction 3, it’s a great opportunity to do a 0-60 test legally.
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It was only last year that I plucked up the courage to use the M602 routing from Royal Mail Warrington Hub to Manchester Mail Centre via the city centre. Dragging a 16' 2" double deck trailer through a city riddled with low bridges made me a bit cautious!
For many years the A57(M) had a mysterious slip road known as The road to nowhere! It was supposed to connect to Princess Road, but they missed somewhere that it was a One way street and the link was not viable. And it quite literally stopped it in it's tracks for a few decades. They simply hid it with advertising placards, I did once sneak up there to see this road that had never seen any traffic and take some pictures (Featured in Derelict places). Today Princess Road Is a two way route so they could have just extended the mysterious slip road to finally fulfil it's purpose after 30 odd years! But - a hotel got in the way! Thanks for making our grey long highways into something really interesting time and time again! Bravo!
Here I can’t help myself; I have travelled on the Manchester ship canal past the Barton Wing bridge in 1961 on my Father’s Cargo ship en route to Manchester - the ship was only about 9,800 tons. normal size for a Cuervo liner of its day - a ‘three islander’ having five hatches. In 2009, I traversed the same swing bridge aqueduct in my own narrowboat, called ‘Dleemaiden’, quite a nostalgic moment really. .
The M602 also played a part in helping rescue services easily reach the Eccles Train Crash in 1984 which occurred alongside the Motorway.
They knocked our house in Weaste down to build the M602, Myrtle Grove if you’re interested. We used to play on the railway as kids.
As always sharp and witty !
The M602 is one of the stretches of motorway that was listed as being used to test whether reducing the motorway speed limit to 60mph will reduce NO2 emissions from the standstill rush hour traffic, the adjacent railway line, and the densely populated neighbourhoods it passes through. The 12 month temporary speed restriction has been in place for about 30 months and the tests to see if it is working haven't even been started due to reduced traffic levels caused by the covid lockdowns.
The M602 kind of completed the ripping the heart out of Salford around Cross Lane and Regent Road with the Stowell memorial church tower at junction 3 now just acting as a mobile phone mast.
What you have failed to mention is the reason why the initial M602 didn't run beyond J2. It was planned to go right through from day one, but as the Worsley >Eccles section was close to completion Salford Council found that there was a national plan to incorporate brough councils into large city councils. As a result they saw and opportunity to save some of their own money and decided to delay their stretch down to Regent Road - hence the fact that the J2 roundabout was completed, and the first few yards beyond were dug out, leaving
Fun facct: I got knocked off my motorbike on the M602 many moons ago. Great video as ever!
You know it's Sunday when Secret Of The Motorways uploads a video.
You should definitely do a secrets of the motorway for the M53 in Merseyside
I love driving on the M602 such a fun stretch of road
That was a lot of numbers to keep up with in such a short space of time.
One of the reasons for the M602 was as access to the docks on Trafford Road and the "Trafford Park" industrial estate. During the planning stages both were still part of the industrial plans in the area and the new spur motorway was to link them to the M6 and M62, however by the time that J3 was completed, the docks were effectively finished and much of the heavy industry that it was commissioned to serve had gone.
Once had a scaffolding pole thrown off a bridge at me as I drove along the M602. Terrifying.
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Thanks for adding a bit of canal history into you motorway history.