The M60 motorway is an orbital motorway which completely encircles Manchester.

The original plan called for a completely new motorway, but policy change led to the plan which created the current motorway. As soon as it opened, the motorway got close to its projected maximum volume on significant sections. There is talk of some sections becoming toll sections, and there is still talk of building a new oribital motorway as proposed by the original plan.

The M60 was developed by connecting and consolidating the existing motorway sections of the M63, M62, and an extended M66.

As an orbital motorway, it is equivalent to London's M25 motorway, however, unlike it's London counterpart, the M60 is a complete circle (the stretch over the Thames at Dartford is not a motorway, but the A282).

Junctions

1. Stockport
2. Cheadle
3. Cheadle
4. Cheadle, junction 1 of the M56
5. Gatley /south City of Manchester
6. east Sale
7. Stretford, Sale (Currently being re-developed)
8. Urmston and Trafford Centre
9. Trafford
10. Eccles
11. Irlam
12. Eastbound: M602 J1, Westbound:M62 J12 (for Warrington and Merseyside)
13. Swinton
14. Tyldesley
15. Walkden
16. M61 J1, Farnworth
17. Pendlebury, Kearsley
18. Whitefield, Prestwich
19. Whitefield, Middleton, M66 J4
20. Middleton
21. Chadderton
22. Oldham, Failsworth
23. Ashton-under-Lyne
24. Denton, M67
25. Bredbury
26. Stockport
27. Stockport

See also

• List of motorways in the United Kingdom.
• CBRD Motorway Database - M60