M62 traffic management

[Wilmslow]

Any fellow M62 commuters here?

Do you think the traffice management system that they are building, based on the M42 will work?

I would like to think so as this stretch (J24-26) gets mobbed from 7am!

Would be nice to lie-in from 5:30am to 6am.....

[BoredBloke]

Firstly it will cause havoc while they are setting it up. The M42 was a pain when they were putting in the infrastructure - the overhead speed cameras and the refuge areas. Plus you get the pleasure of driving on a near empty motorway at 7 pm with the variable speed limit down to 50 because some pilock has either not turned it off or forgot to change the timer.

When I used to do that journey I'd use the slip roads a lot. When it starts building up, around the first huddersfield turn off I'd leave the motorway and take the A road that runs parrallel. Then rejoin at the second huddersfield turning. Then I'd get off again at brighouse and rejoin using the same junction. Then drive round the back of the services and then use the slip road at the last junction before my exit onto the M621.

[realityhack]

Meh

[Xenophon]

Meh

WHS

[VectraMan]

My experience of the M25 and M42 is that they do seem to work, though you often end up sprinting between the gantries and then slamming on your brakes for the next camera.

Not done the M42 regularly in rush hour, but enough other times to know what it can be like and being able to use four lanes obviously does help. All the initial scaremongering about how using the hard shoulder would mean accidents by the dozen has been proved to be nonsense.

[realityhack]

A friend sent me a photo of a horrible highway accident in Germany .

The picture may be kind of hard to take for some of you, if you look closely you can see what appear to be some survivors of the accident still in the wreckage.

Although the picture is quite graphic, it makes you realize how quickly our loved ones can be taken from us. My friend stayed on the scene to help and even though he performed mouth to mouth on quite a few of them, none apparently survived.

Linky (SFW)

[rootsnall]

It must be happening at my end also !?! Jn 10-12 hard shoulder is all coned and yellow cameras going up. So they are going to use the hard shoulder as a lane ? Sounds good to me.

[EternalOptimist]

A friend sent me a photo of a horrible highway accident in Germany .

The picture may be kind of hard to take for some of you, if you look closely you can see what appear to be some survivors of the accident still in the wreckage.

Although the picture is quite graphic, it makes you realize how quickly our loved ones can be taken from us. My friend stayed on the scene to help and even though he performed mouth to mouth on quite a few of them, none apparently survived.

Linky (SFW)

that is sick.
bodies littered everywhere, shattered remains and body fluids. Yeuk

[cojak]

Not done the M42 regularly in rush hour, but enough other times to know what it can be like and being able to use four lanes obviously does help. All the initial scaremongering about how using the hard shoulder would mean accidents by the dozen has been proved to be nonsense.

I have, and the accidents on it at peak time mean that I started to use the M69/A46/M40 instead.

Nightmare...

[Pogle]

A friend sent me a photo of a horrible highway accident in Germany .

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Linky (SFW)

I liked that