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m6 preston by pass
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The motorway was opened to traffic on 5th December 1958 by the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.
In January 1959, however, a small amount of frost damage affecting the carriageways occurred as a result of an exceptionally rapid thaw, when the temperature rose from 8F to 43F (-13 deg C to 6 deg C) within a period of thirty-six hours.
Since there was no speed limit on the motorway it was decided that, for safety reasons, it should be temporarily closed to sort the problem..
Hi me cockney sparra
Everyone thinks that the M1 was the first motorway in England to be opened. In fact it was the M6 preston by pass. AND AND AND, the opening memorial plaque for this is at the Worsley interchange on what is now the M60 - but used to be the M62, onthe link going into Manchester (rather than toward Bolton)