Portwood Stockport

[hilts]

You want to try driving in LA on the freeway, junctions can be either side, being a clueless Brit trying to get across 8 lanes makes a man out of you.

 

[80s Shorts]

Yes it is, but it was the basis on which you think that stretch is dangerous isnt it? There are speed restrictions there, so every car is going the same speed. Therefore there is no need to overtake, which is all the 3rd lane should be for. As it is, you are just pulling into a lane in which everyone is going the same speed. Not dangerous, or shouldnt be

The AA doesn't agree with you.


A junction which forces drivers to join into the fast lane has been labelled a "big hazard" by safety experts.

Every day, thousands of drivers risk their lives as they join the M60 at junction 25 because they are forced to merge straight into the fast lane.


The Manchester Evening News commissioned a road safety report into the junction which concluded that it is a "big hazard."

We can also reveal the alarming junction was only built as a temporary measure - but has been allowed to stay for 11 years.

Incredibly, no-one has been killed in that time, but with ever-increasing traffic, there are now calls for a safety review.

Even powerful family cars cannot reach 70 mph before the end of the slip road, which joins the anti-clockwise M60 at Bredbury near Stockport in the outside lane.

And lorries and cars towing caravans and trailers are being forced to break the law every day by joining the motorway in the fast lane, where they are not normally allowed to go.

Unbelievable

The AA described the junction, where there has been a series of accidents, as "absolutely unbelievable" and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Advanced Drivers Association, commissioned by the M.E.N. to test the junction, was also alarmed by the layout.

The Highways Agency insists the junction is ''rare but not unique'' in Britain. It says the problem should have been solved by the building of the A6(M) Stockport bypass, but that was axed by the government in 1998.

The M.E.N. watched from the bridge on Lingard Lane which crosses the M60 as cars on the sliproad failed to reach the speed of cars already on the motorway. Drivers then find themselves in the fast lane and are faced with a frightening attempt to move over to the left. We also watched as drivers of several slow-moving vehicles struggled to join the traffic.

Claire Price, the AA's north west spokeswoman, said: ''Motorists are taught to always join the slowest moving lane of motorways and gradually increase their speed. This junction goes against all that and is very dangerous.''

A Highways Agency spokesman said: ''This section of the M60 was opened in April 1989. The 'offside merge' was incorporated into the junction in anticipation of the construction of the A6(M).

Unusual

''While an offside merge is unusual, they are not unique and this was a temporary solution to allow traffic to join the motorway at Bredbury.


He added that the A6(M) route was still being considered.

 

[west didsblue]

no if I'm right there's only speed restrictions on the other side of motorway towards Stockport could be wrong though

You're right, the speed restrictions are clockwise only and that lane joins anti-clockwise. I still don't think it's particularly dangerous though.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

You're right, the speed restrictions are clockwise only and that lane joins anti-clockwise. I still don't think it's particularly dangerous though.

In which case there should be and then it is dangerous, OP is right!

 

[Bluemanc100]

This!

I think there should be a transponder fitted to all cars; when it detects an induction loop under the surface of the sliproad, it buries the throttle. There are far too many ditherers who cannot grasp the concept of accelerating to match the speed of the traffic they are joining.

or the other type of motorway user who do a bloody right turn onto the motorway instead of merging like a fucking sane person....

 

[Bluemanc100]

In which case there should be and then it is dangerous, OP is right!

I go past that junction regularly and I've never seen any issue, not even a close shave.... its a strange junction yes but dangerous, not in my eyes...

 

[Bluemanc100]

You want to try driving in LA on the freeway, junctions can be either side, being a clueless Brit trying to get across 8 lanes makes a man out of you.

we should have freeways here... the amount of dullards that stay in the middle lane wouldn't be an issue if we could legally undertake them

 

[west didsblue]

He added that the A6(M) route was still being considered.

As it has been since the 1930s!

 

[Bluemanc100]

The AA doesn't agree with you.


A junction which forces drivers to join into the fast lane has been labelled a "big hazard" by safety experts.

Every day, thousands of drivers risk their lives as they join the M60 at junction 25 because they are forced to merge straight into the fast lane.


The Manchester Evening News commissioned a road safety report into the junction which concluded that it is a "big hazard."

We can also reveal the alarming junction was only built as a temporary measure - but has been allowed to stay for 11 years.

Incredibly, no-one has been killed in that time, but with ever-increasing traffic, there are now calls for a safety review.

Even powerful family cars cannot reach 70 mph before the end of the slip road, which joins the anti-clockwise M60 at Bredbury near Stockport in the outside lane.

And lorries and cars towing caravans and trailers are being forced to break the law every day by joining the motorway in the fast lane, where they are not normally allowed to go.

Unbelievable

The AA described the junction, where there has been a series of accidents, as "absolutely unbelievable" and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Advanced Drivers Association, commissioned by the M.E.N. to test the junction, was also alarmed by the layout.

The Highways Agency insists the junction is ''rare but not unique'' in Britain. It says the problem should have been solved by the building of the A6(M) Stockport bypass, but that was axed by the government in 1998.

The M.E.N. watched from the bridge on Lingard Lane which crosses the M60 as cars on the sliproad failed to reach the speed of cars already on the motorway. Drivers then find themselves in the fast lane and are faced with a frightening attempt to move over to the left. We also watched as drivers of several slow-moving vehicles struggled to join the traffic.

Claire Price, the AA's north west spokeswoman, said: ''Motorists are taught to always join the slowest moving lane of motorways and gradually increase their speed. This junction goes against all that and is very dangerous.''

A Highways Agency spokesman said: ''This section of the M60 was opened in April 1989. The 'offside merge' was incorporated into the junction in anticipation of the construction of the A6(M).

Unusual

''While an offside merge is unusual, they are not unique and this was a temporary solution to allow traffic to join the motorway at Bredbury.


He added that the A6(M) route was still being considered.

Whoever wrote the article needs pulling up... as another poster said, there is no such thing as a fast lane... its an overtaking lane and once you have overtaken then you shouldn't be in it

I'm in Frankfurt this week and love it here.... the lane discipline shits all over the majority of drivers in the UK and don't get me started on the road surfaces

 

[Indaparkside]

The AA doesn't agree with you.


A junction which forces drivers to join into the fast lane has been labelled a "big hazard" by safety experts.

Every day, thousands of drivers risk their lives as they join the M60 at junction 25 because they are forced to merge straight into the fast lane.


The Manchester Evening News commissioned a road safety report into the junction which concluded that it is a "big hazard."

We can also reveal the alarming junction was only built as a temporary measure - but has been allowed to stay for 11 years.

Incredibly, no-one has been killed in that time, but with ever-increasing traffic, there are now calls for a safety review.

Even powerful family cars cannot reach 70 mph before the end of the slip road, which joins the anti-clockwise M60 at Bredbury near Stockport in the outside lane.

And lorries and cars towing caravans and trailers are being forced to break the law every day by joining the motorway in the fast lane, where they are not normally allowed to go.

Unbelievable

The AA described the junction, where there has been a series of accidents, as "absolutely unbelievable" and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Advanced Drivers Association, commissioned by the M.E.N. to test the junction, was also alarmed by the layout.

The Highways Agency insists the junction is ''rare but not unique'' in Britain. It says the problem should have been solved by the building of the A6(M) Stockport bypass, but that was axed by the government in 1998.

The M.E.N. watched from the bridge on Lingard Lane which crosses the M60 as cars on the sliproad failed to reach the speed of cars already on the motorway. Drivers then find themselves in the fast lane and are faced with a frightening attempt to move over to the left. We also watched as drivers of several slow-moving vehicles struggled to join the traffic.

Claire Price, the AA's north west spokeswoman, said: ''Motorists are taught to always join the slowest moving lane of motorways and gradually increase their speed. This junction goes against all that and is very dangerous.''

A Highways Agency spokesman said: ''This section of the M60 was opened in April 1989. The 'offside merge' was incorporated into the junction in anticipation of the construction of the A6(M).

Unusual

''While an offside merge is unusual, they are not unique and this was a temporary solution to allow traffic to join the motorway at Bredbury.


He added that the A6(M) route was still being considered.

Wow thanks for that info shorts makes you realise how dangerous it is after reading that, it's only when a tragic accident happens that they listen to these organisations who agree with my views when it could have been prevented.