New Civil Engineer
Doug Jackson
-
history
2-Nov-2000
The motorway age dawned for Mancunians in October 1960 with the opening of the M63's 8km Stretford-Eccles bypass, plus 1.6km of the M62 to the north. It ended a notorious bottleneck that had caused chaos around the huge Trafford Park industrial estate, even though vehicle numbers were only a third of today's figures.








