M60 Stretford and Eccles Bypass

Name
Stretford and Eccles Bypass
Opened
Current route
Start point
Junction number at start: 7
Chester Road
End point
Junction number at end: 13
Worsley
Original route
Other numbers held

Present junctions 7 to 12 were part of M63 before becoming M60. Junctions 12 to 13 remained M62 until becoming M60.

Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.

In this section

What's new

A century of motorways

It's 100 years since the opening of the world's first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.

Schrödinger’s speed limit

In 2022, Manchester City Council say they reduced the speed limit on the Mancunian Way to 30mph. But it’s not clear if they did. It’s not even clear if they can.

Sorry, wrong number

Road numbering is a system with clear rules. What happens when the people responsible for numbering roads don't follow them?

Share this page

Have you seen...

B7076 and B7078

What sound at first like a pair of forgotten country lanes turn out to have had a major part to play in the history of Scotland's roads.