Motorways in England: M25 Motorway, M11 Motorway, A3 Road,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Books, LLC / Group, Books, PUBLISHER: Books LLC, Wiki Series, Chapters: M62 Motorway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 480. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The M62 motorway is a westeast trans-Pennine motorway in northern England, connecting the cities of Liverpool and Hull via Manchester and Leeds. The road also forms part of the unsigned Euroroutes E20 (Shannon to Saint Petersburg) and E22 (Holyhead to Ishim). The road is 107 miles (172 km) long;; for 7 miles (11 km), it shares its route with the M60 motorway around Manchester. The motorway, which was first proposed in the s, and originally conceived as two separate routes, was built in stages between and , with construction beginning at Pole Moor and finishing in Tarbock on the outskirts of Liverpool. The motorway also absorbed the northern end of the Stretford-Eccles bypass, which was built between and . Adjusted for inflation to , the motorway cost approximately 765 million to build. The motorway is relatively busy, with an average daily traffic flow of cars in Yorkshire, and has several areas prone to gridlock, in particular, between Leeds and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. The motorway's history has included a coach bombing on 4 February , and a rail crash on 28 February . The motorway is also notable for Stott Hall Farm, a farm in the Pennines situated between the carriageways, due to the geology of the surrounding area. The farm has since become one of the most well known sights in West Yorkshire. The road passes the cities of Salford, Manchester, Bradford and Leeds. Between Liverpool and Manchester, and east of Leeds, the terrain of the road is relatively flat, while between Manchester and Leeds, the road crosses the Pennines. Its highest point on Windy Hill near Saddleworth Moor ()) is the highest point of any motorway in the United Kin...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=