Manchester car parking on the M60 can you explain it?
Category: Manchester MotowaysBy Jim Symcox on Jul 27, 2008 in Hollingworth Lake, Manchester Motoways | 0 Comments
Hollingworth Lake has been going a long time and has been used since before motor cars were the normal mode of transport for most people.
And whilst the beach is not particularly enormous it’s a great lake to tootle over to for a relaxing couple of hours. Be warned that you pay for parking […]
By Jim Symcox on Jul 4, 2008 in Manchester Motoways, Congestion Charging, Manchester Road Tax, Manchester Congestion Charge, Manchester | 0 Comments
I was minding my own business on the M60 car park the other day when I noticed a tiny car zip by in the middle lane. The thing that caught my attention was that it had a large pole stuck vertically up on the roof to which were attached what looked like 4 cameras.
Then […]
By Jim Symcox on Jun 5, 2008 in Manchester Motoways, Manchester | 0 Comments
We live 3 minutes from the M60 and another 2 minutes from there to the M62 and M66. So we’re always the first to know whether there’s a problem on the motorway. What normally happens is that we see a sudden influx of cars crawling slowly past our door.
Take today…
I’d not listened to […]
By Jim Symcox on Mar 17, 2008 in Manchester Motoways, Manchester | 0 Comments
Over the last few weeks as I’ve been going around the M60 I’ve noticed vehicles and men with theodolites measuring roads and roundabouts and bridges around chunks of the M60. More specifically I’ve noticed them measuring
the Three Arrows roundabout (the M60 Middleton exit)
the carriageways past that roundabout
near the intersection with the M62/M60
the Rochdale […]
