I was yesterday caught in the middle of the catastrophe listed below from Wikipedia - and 'nightmare' does not describe my journey from Warrington to Sheffield.
Please remember that there are also countless roadworks on both the M62 and the M1.
The M67 is a 5-mile (8.0 km) urban motorway in Greater Manchester, England which heads east from the M60 motorway passing through Denton and Hyde before ending near Mottram. It was originally conceived as the first part of a trans-Pennine motorway between Manchester and Sheffield connecting the A57(M) motorway to the M1 motorway however the motorway never progressed this far.
Numerous calls have been made to extend the motorway to link Sheffield
and Manchester, the fifth and sixth most populous cities in the
United Kingdom. Traffic between the cities is mainly divided between the Snake and
Woodhead
passes, which traverse the Peak District. Plans for a £180m improvement to the
route by bypassing Mottram and Tintwistle, the
A57/A628 Mottram in
Longdendale, Hollingworth and Tintwistle Bypass, and the 'Glossop
spur' linking to the A57 road are
currently at the public inquiry stage but were 'suspended indefinitely' in
January 2008.
WHY are they building track for unwanted High Speed Trains instead of connecting Sheffield and Manchester by proper roads?
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