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30.05.2023 - 06:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
For decades, motorists have been divided on junction 25 of the M60.
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.
It’s left drivers divided over the Stockport junction for years. Last year, M.E.N. readers reflected the difference of opinion, with one saying ‘someone was doing heavy drugs when they designed that one’.
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However, others said using the slip road is ‘basic stuff’ and ‘not dangerous at all’. Now, one man appears to have explained why the junction has its novel design.
That man is Jon Jefferson, who runs the YouTube channel Auto Shenanigans.
On the channel, Jon looks at issues affecting drivers like fuel prices, but is perhaps best-known on the platform for his Secrets of the Motorway series. In those episodes, he breaks down a motorway — retelling the history of how it was built, if any changes have been made since it was first completed, and if any interesting sights that can be seen from the road.
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.”
That motorway, he explained, was the never-constructed A6(M), first mooted in the 1940s. Jon went on: “[Building an A6(M)] was
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