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ARCHIVE: Road to nowhere! Manchesters vanishing road! 04-09
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Arrow ARCHIVE: Road to nowhere! Manchesters vanishing road! 04-09 - 05-07-2009, 16:10

Proof that council planners were dropping too much acid in the 1960’s!
Mancunian way – the A57(M) is a flyover in south central Manchester that was completed in 1967 (Parts were updated in 1992)
Classed as the Manchester/Salford inner ring road, it is a west to east link road to ease city centre congestion.
All was going well until it became apparent that the slip road that was to create a dual carriageway to the A34 was actually pointing the wrong way!
So they simply stopped building it and the resulting ‘stub’ remains to this day – hidden partly by an advertising placard!
I have wanted to capture this pretty much all the time I’ve lived in Manchester – and I finally did it!

The beginning – and the end!


The end - and the beginning! With the main route in the background.


The silent flyover.


You are – well, somewhere around here!


The view, which no car will ever have!


Or a rear view mirror!


Apply brakes now!


And then it stopped!


Sneaky way of hiding a council clanger!
 

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