Building the M62: The missing four junctions, the farm in the middle and 'go steady' warning
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt's England's highest motorway and one of its busiest. But the construction of the M62 is also a tale in itself. Generations have now grown up with the motorway fully completed, but plenty will still remember life before it, in the 1950s and earlier.
Before then, travel over the Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire was more difficult, with no major road linking the two counties.
However, the road started out much earlier than the 1960s, and the first plans were laid down almost a century ago. READ MORE: 'Mancunian Way should link to the M1 by 25-mile long tunnel' Plans for a road were originally discussed in the 1930s, but with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, many of these plans were put on hold.
After the war's end in 1945, engineers were appointed by the Ministry for Transport to inspect the road standards between the A580 in Lancashire and the A1 here in Yorkshire.
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