M67 motorway
Length	5 miles 8 km
Direction	West - East
Start	Denton
Primary destinations	None
End	Warhill
Construction dates	1978 - 1981
Motorways joined	1 - M60 motorway

The M67 is a short motorway in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, forming an A57 bypass for the towns of Denton and Hyde. It was originally conceived as part of a trans-Pennine motorway route linking Manchester and Sheffield but these plans never came to full fruition. Image File history File links UK_motorway_M67. ... Location within the British Isles Denton is a town in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. ... The colour scheme used to denote a primary route. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M60. ... The M60 motorway is an orbital motorway which completely encircles Manchester. ... Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in north west England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which roughly encompasses the conurbation surrounding the City of Manchester, and has a population of 2. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... The A57 is a major road in England. ... Bypass routes are a type of bannered highway usually used when the main route of the highway goes through a town and an alternate route of the same highway goes around the highway. ... Location within the British Isles Denton is a town in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. ... Location within the British Isles Arms of the former Hyde Urban District Council Hyde is a market town in Tameside, part of Greater Manchester. ... Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough within Greater Manchester in North West England. ... For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ...

Originally the M67 was designated as the "Manchester to Sheffield All-Weather Route", when approved in 1967. It was to provide a second motorway link across the Pennines to the south of the M62 and link the two cities together by motorway avoiding the Snake and Woodhead passes, which are often closed in snowy weather. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Typical Pennine scenery. ... The M62 motorway connects the cities of Liverpool and Hull, in England. ... The Snake Pass is the name of the A57 road where it crosses the Peak District between Manchester and Sheffield in the north of England, or more specifically to the section between the town of Glossop and the Ladybower reservoir, where the road passes over the high ground between the... The view westward down Longdendale from above the Woodhead Tunnel, showing the Longdendale Trail (left) and A628 Woodhead Pass road. ...

Intended route

The scheme would have left Manchester City Centre at what was the A57(M) motorway eastern terminal roundabout (now a flyover for the A635, constructed in 1995), following the line of the A57 Hyde Road through the inner suburbs of Ardwick, Gorton and Debdale Park. Large-scale demolition took place along the line of the motorway (which is still evident today), tied in with the widening of the Belle Vue and Reddish Lane junctions. The A57(M) motorway in Manchester, known as the Mancunian Way forms the southern part of Manchesters ring road, and runs directly through the centre of the campuses of UMIST (now part of the University of Manchester) and Manchester Metropolitan University. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ardwick is an inner-city district of Manchester, about one mile south east of the city centre. ... Gorton is a district in Manchester, United Kingdom, to the south-east of the city centre. ...

From there the intended route follows the present-day M67, skirting Hyde and Denton. Upon reaching Mottram, the route passed the village to the north (through a tunnel), then crossed Mottram Moor to skirt Hollingworth through the Etherow valley floor. The motorway would then have run around the side of Bottoms Reservoir to reach Hadfield, from which the trackbed of the Woodhead railway line (the former intercity route between Manchester and Sheffield, now closed) was to have been followed up the Longdendale valley to Woodhead. At Woodhead, the route would have diverged, with one carriageway entering the Woodhead Rail Tunnel (now disused) and the other rising on a sweeping viaduct to go over a realigned Woodhead Pass. Hollingworth is a village in England, located in the Metropolitan borough of Tameside about twelve miles east of Manchester and near to Glossop and Stalybridge. ... The River Etherow is a river in the north west of England, and a tributary of the River Mersey. ... Bottoms reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire. ... The war memorial and Station Road in Hadfield Hadfield is a small town in High Peak, Derbyshire, England. ... The view westward down Longdendale from above the Woodhead Tunnel, showing the Longdendale Trail (left) and A628 Woodhead Pass road. ... Woodhead (SK091999) is a small and scattered settlement at the head of the Longdendale valley in Derbyshire, England. ... The western portals of the Woodhead Tunnels in 2004, from the former Woodhead Station. ...

Beyond the Pennine watershed, the motorway would have continued on a new alignment past the villages of Langsett and Midhopestones, before meeting the route of the current Stocksbridge Bypass.

The Stocksbridge Bypass would have been constructed on its present alignment and continued directly onto the M1 at junction 35a, which was built specifically as a junction with the M67 (and signposted thus).

The extension of the road to the M1 has been promised before the year 2100.

See external link below at Pathetic Motorways for detailed maps of the believed route.

In reality

The only sections constructed are those in use today: the Denton Relief Road (completed last — in 1981) and the Hyde Bypass (completed first — in 1978). Although the motorway was constructed as a bypass for the old A57, it never strays more than a mile from the original route, passing almost through the town centres of Denton and Hyde. The separate schemes are connected by a viaduct over the River Tame and Peak Forest Canal. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The A57 is a major road in England. ... The River Tame is a river in the north west of England. ... South portal of Hyde Bank Tunnel, early 20th century Greens Hall Bridge near Disley, early 20th century The Peak Forest Canal runs from a junction with the Ashton Canal at the southern end of the Tame Aqueduct at Dukinfield through Newton, Hyde, Woodley, Romiley, Marple, Strines, Disley, New Mills, Furness...

Before the motorway reaches its eastern terminal at Hattersley/Mottram roundabout (where traffic continues along the A57 into Longdendale), there are the remnants of where the motorway would have continued eastwards. Location within the British Isles Hattersley is an area of Greater Manchester, England, east of Hyde and west of Mottram in Longdendale, in the borough of Tameside. ... The view westward down Longdendale from above the Woodhead Tunnel, showing the Longdendale Trail (left) and A628 Woodhead Pass road. ...

A similar continuation is in evidence before the M67 ends at Denton Interchange. "Ski ramps" lead into the air, where the carriageways would have continued over the roundabout towards an elevated section towards Manchester.

A currently planned road scheme is the A57/A628 Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle Bypass or Longdendale Bypass which will continue from the current end of M67 and form an extension of sorts; however, it is planned to be built as an at-grade, dual-carriageway road. According to current plans the new road will not make use of the existing remnants of the planned motorway at the Mottram roundabout. The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain List of A roads beginning with 6 in Great Britain starting east of the A6 & A7 roads and west of the A1. ... Mottram in Longdendale is a village in the Longdendale part of the metropolitan borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, near Broadbottom and Hattersley, in the north west of England. ... Hollingworth is a village in England, located in the Metropolitan borough of Tameside about twelve miles east of Manchester and near to Glossop and Stalybridge. ... Tintwistle is village and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. ... The Longdendale Bypass (also known as the A57/A628 Mottram-in-Longdendale, Hollingworth & Tintwistle Bypass) is a £115m scheme by the Highways Agency, whose stated aim is to alleviate traffic congestion on the A57/A628/A616 trunk road. ...

Another part of the originally planned "M67" exists in South Yorkshire, as the A616 Stocksbridge Bypass which opened in 1989. As there was no certainty that the whole M67 scheme would be completed by this time, the then Government decided that the scheme would not be built with motorway characteristics, but as a single carriageway with crawler lanes. There have been more than 26 deaths since the road opened. Numerous debates have taken place in parliament about possible improvements to the road, which led to the installation of SPECS speed cameras and the introduction of a 60mph speed limit. A year went by without any deaths or major injuries. Then, two young brothers died in their mother's vehicle, followed by two bikers in a further incident. South Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber Government Office Region of England, in the United Kingdom. ... The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain List of A roads beginning with 6 in Great Britain starting east of the A6 & A7 roads and west of the A1. ... Stocksbridge is a small town in the metropolitan borough of Sheffield, England, with a population of around 14,000. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Houses of Parliament, seen over Westminster Bridge The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. ... SPECS cameras over motorway SPECS is a speed camera system manufactured by the British company Speed Check Services Limited. ... A red-light camera in use in Beaverton, Oregon A road-rule enforcement camera is a system including a camera and a vehicle-monitoring device used to detect and identify vehicles disobeying a road rule or road rules. ... Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ... A road speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law for road vehicles. ...

Junctions

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See also

• List of motorways in the United Kingdom

A complete listing of motorways in the United Kingdom. ...

External links

• CBRD Motorway Database - M67
• Pathetic Motorways - M67
• Pathetic Motorways - The believed intended route of the M67
• The Motorway Archive - M67

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