M602 motorway

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M602 Motorway
Road of the United Kingdom
Length	4 miles (6.4 km)
Direction	West - East
Start	Eccles
Primary destinations	Trafford Park Salford
End	Manchester
Construction dates	1971 - 1982
Motorways joined	1 - M60 motorway 1 - M62 motorway

The M602 motorway is a relatively short motorway, leading traffic into Manchester and Salford by by-passing the suburban town of Eccles.

The motorway itself was meant to be a part of a bigger scheme, the South Lancashire Motorway. To be designated M52, the route would link Liverpool and Manchester, and would be built to provide links to the growing UK mortorway network ^[1]^[2].

However, at the same time, the M62 was being extended north and east of Worsley, around the north of Manchester, and on to Yorkshire, to form part of the Trans-Pennine Motorway route. This would be an upgraded version to the original plan of the East Lancashire Road, the A580, but would link onto the existing route at Worsley. It was decided that the Trans-Pennine Motorway be extended to Liverpool too, to provide a cross-country trunk route. The M62 was re-coursed to run via the route of the M52 between Worsley and Liverpool. This would leave a short stump of motorway between the M62 and Salford - this was first renumbered M64^[3] then M602, whilst the southern end of the M62 between Worsley and Stretford became the M63.

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M602 Motorway
Westbound exits	Junction	Eastbound exits
M60 Sale, Stockport, Manchester Airport M60 towards Bolton (M61), Bury (M66), Leeds (M62) M62 towards Liverpool, Birmingham (M6)	J1	Start of Motorway
A576 Eccles, Salford Royal, Trafford Park	J2	A576 Eccles, Salford Royal, Trafford Park
Start of Motorway	J3	A57 Salford, Manchester, Hulme, Sheffield (A628), Ashton (A635) A5063 Oldham (A62), Pendleton, Salford University A5063 Salford Quays, Old Trafford, Stretford

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