M606 motorway
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Infobox road/errors".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[[Category:Infobox road instances Template:Infobox road/meta/mask/category]] The M606 is a Script error: No such module "convert". stretch of motorway in West Yorkshire, England. Called the Bradford Spur motorway, the M606 leaves the M62 motorway at junction 26, near Cleckheaton, and heads into Bradford, to join the A6177 Bradford Ring Road. It is officially named the "Bradford South Radial Motorway" and was opened in 1973.
Route
The northern end of the M606, closest to the city, was built with a large raised roundabout crossing the Bradford Ring Road, but the original plans to continue the motorway under the roundaboutScript error: No such module "Unsubst". were not carried out: access was only by slip roads to and from the roundabout.
In 1999, a new slip road was built that allowed eastward traffic on the ring road, via a mini-roundabout, to enter the motorway directly and avoid the Staygate roundabout.
In 2004, the junction was further remodelled, so that traffic leaving the motorway and wishing to turn eastward on the ring road continues under the roundabout, and round to join the roundabout from the opposite site, so that it has a left rather than a right turn to make (via two sets of traffic lights).
Staygate roundabout is very close to Odsal Stadium, the home of the rugby league club Bradford Bulls.[1]
The southerly junction with the M62 is known as the Chain Bar Interchange and features free-flowing sliproads from the Manchester direction M62 traffic to Bradford, but not the Leeds direction, which has to use the complex traffic-light controlled roundabout.
In 2007, work started on the M606 to create the UK's first motorway carpool lane (also known as high-occupancy vehicle or HOV lane). The Script error: No such module "convert". lane scheme was on the M606 southbound and allowed vehicles with more than one person in the car a fast track onto the M62 eastbound at Junction 26. In August 2017 the lane's restriction was removed and is now open to all traffic.[2][3]
In September 2016, it was revealed that the M606 is the slowest part of the motorway network averaging Script error: No such module "convert"..[4]
List of junctions
| County | Location | mi | km | Junction | Destinations | Notes |
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| West Yorkshire | Bradford | 0 | 0 | 1[coord 1] | Script error: No such module "Jct". - Manchester, Leeds Script error: No such module "Jct". - Leeds, Halifax Script error: No such module "Jct". - Cleckheaton, Wakefield |
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| 1.5 | 2.4 | 2[coord 2] | Oakenshaw, Low Moor | No northbound entrance | ||
| 2.4 | 3.9 | 3[coord 3] | Script error: No such module "Jct". - Halifax Script error: No such module "Jct". - Bradford |
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