M67 motorway
M67 | ||||
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Maintained by M60 motorway | ||||
East end | Hattersley | |||
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Country | Primary destinations Manchester, Denton, Hyde, Sheffield , Barnsley | | ||
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The M67 is a 5-mile (8.0 km) urban motorway in
Numerous calls have been made to complete the motorway link between Manchester and Sheffield, the second and ninth most populous urban areas within the United Kingdom.[1][2] Traffic between the cities is mainly divided between the Snake and Woodhead passes, which traverse the Peak District. Plans for a £180m improvement to the route by bypassing Mottram and Tintwistle, the A57/A628 Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth and Tintwistle Bypass, and the 'Glossop spur' linking to the A57 road are currently at the public inquiry stage but were 'suspended indefinitely' in January 2008. There are now proposals to link the two cities with a tunnelled scheme underneath the Peak District, some of the proposed routes using the existing M67 route.
Route
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/M67_to_A57_junction_from_the_air.jpg/220px-M67_to_A57_junction_from_the_air.jpg)
The M67 heads east from the
Before the motorway reaches its eastern terminal at Hattersley/Mottram roundabout (where traffic continues along the A57 into Longdendale), there are the stub 'ski ramps' where the motorway would have continued eastwards,[3] as there are at the western end.[4]
History
In 1965, the Ministry of Transport asked
M67 Manchester to Sheffield motorway
In 1967, at the time of the first public inquiry there were discussions regarding an extension of the motorway across the Peak District National Park.
The full proposed route was to start from
From there the intended route follows the present-day M67, skirting Hyde and Denton. Upon reaching Mottram, the route passed the village to the north (through a tunnel), then crossed Mottram Moor to skirt
Beyond the Pennine watershed, the motorway would have continued on a new alignment past the villages of
Another part of the originally planned "M67" exists in
Proposed developments
A57/A628 Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth and Tintwistle Bypass
Plans for a road at the eastern end of the M67 passing to the north of the current A628 route past Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle were cancelled in 2009 following four adjournments of the public inquiry due to inconsistencies in the official traffic models.[9]
Manchester to Sheffield Peak District Tunnel
After the cancellation of the Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth and Tintwistle Bypass, there are now proposals to build a tunnel underneath the Peak District to link Manchester and Sheffield, with some of the proposed tunnel routes using the existing M67 route to link the M60 and M1 motorways.[10] In 2017, this was later scaled down into a partially tunnelled route along the existing Woodhead Pass due to rising costs.[11]
Junctions
County | Location | mi | km | Junction | Destinations | Notes |
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Greater Manchester | Denton | 0 | 0 | 1[coord 1] | ![]() A57 – Central Manchester
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0.9 | 1.4 | 1a[coord 2] | ![]() A6017 – Denton, Ashton under Lyne
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No westbound exit or eastbound entrance | ||
1.5 | 2.4 | 2[coord 3] | ![]() |
No eastbound exit or westbound entrance | ||
Hyde | 2.4 | 3.8 | 3[coord 4] | ![]() A627 – Dukinfield
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— | 4.7 | 7.6 | 4[coord 5] | ![]() A560 – Stockport
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1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
- Coordinate list
See also
Notes
Citations
- ^ "2011 Census - Built-up areas". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ "Peak District tunnel idea 'should be looked at'". BBC News. 2 October 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ "Google maps aerial photography of the ski ramps at Mottram". Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ "Google Maps aerial photography – ski ramps at west end of M67". Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ a b c "M67 Hyde By-pass and Denton Relief Road". UK Motorway Archive. CIHT. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Written Answers: M67 (Denton)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 916. House of Commons. 5 August 1976. col. 972W. Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ "M67 (Peak District National Park)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 913. House of Commons. 23 June 1976. col. 1579–1581. Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ a b c d "M67 Manchester to Sheffield Motorway". Pathetic Motorways. Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ "The Mottram/Tintwistle Bypass and Glossop Spur Public Inquiry". Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2008.
- ^ "Routes unveiled for Sheffield-Manchester road tunnel plan". Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Revised Trans-Pennine tunnel to be shorter". BBC News. Retrieved 10 August 2018.