The M58 motorway is a motorway in England. It links Wigan and northern Liverpool. It starts at Switch Island and ends at the M6 at Orrell, passing Skelmersdale. It was updated from dual carriageway status so as to provide a fast connection from the port of Liverpool to the M6 and to provide a fast link from Liverpool to one of its many 'New Towns' viz. Skelmersdale. Image File history File links UK_motorway_M58. ... Netherton is an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England on the A5207, approximately 2 miles inland from the Irish Sea. ... Switch Island is a road junction near Aintree in Merseyside, United Kingdom. ... The colour scheme used to denote a primary route. ... Location within the British Isles Skelmersdale is a new town, by far the largest town in the district of West Lancashire. ... Orrell is a village on the outskirts of Wigan and the most westerly point of Greater Manchester, England. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M57. ... The M57 motorway, also known as the Liverpool Outer Ring Road, is a motorway in England. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M6. ... This article concerns the M6 motorway in England. ... Motorway mark in Europe. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st... Map sources for Wigan at grid reference SD583055 Wigan is a large town in the north-west of England, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, lying in the historic county of Lancashire. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... Switch Island is a road junction near Aintree in Merseyside, United Kingdom. ... This article concerns the M6 motorway in England. ... Orrell is a village on the outskirts of Wigan and the most westerly point of Greater Manchester, England. ...
The section of the motorway between Melling and Glenburn Road was to have dual three-lane carriageways.
In the development of its design to accommodate the M58, allowance had to be made for the possibility of extending the M57 to the west, to connect with the A565.
Work on the two Contracts was completed during 1980, and the length of the motorway open to traffic was extended through to the junction with the A570 at Bickerstaffe in June, and to Aintree in September, of that year.
Further north an eastern bypass for Liverpool was built the M57, and from the northern end of this motorway a new motorway to Skelmersdale an industrial new town the M58 was later built.
The original plan was to take the M58 over the western roundabout on a flyover, likely then under the M6, then over the eastern roundabout on another flyover to continue eastward to the M61, the complex junction being used as an interchange between these two motorways.
So far the M58 extension was not been built and has left a needless complexity of roads where a simple one roundabout junction would have sufficed as we have at either junctions 35 or 36 further north.
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