'WTF is that?': YouTuber has 'sensible' explanation on why infamous M60 junction got its design
The Bredbury Interchange, to give its full name, is infamous on the motorway network as it is one of the places where traffic joins the road from a slip road on the right-hand side. That means vehicles using the slip road to get up to speed with traffic have to filter into what is often the fastest lane on the motorway.
Last month, Jon covered the M60 — the UK’s only orbital motorway which is a complete circle — and got on to the thorny issue of junction 25. “What the f*** is that… is that a junction?,” he joked. “Apparently it’s junction 25, but something is amiss here, I suspect, and indeed it would appear that this junction is the result of a cancelled motorway.”
This was back in the days before the M60 existed, he added, with the then-under construction-M66 designed to join up to the Bredbury Interchange, where drivers could either head south on to the A6, or head west via the M63. However, the decision was made in the late-90s to renumber the southern section of the M66 as the M60, a move which also saw the M63 — running across south Manchester — subsumed into the M60, along with a section of the M62 from Eccles to Simister Island.