M6 Newcastle under lyme
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Well this happened yesterday, M6 heading north 4 lanes no shoulder, packed, jammed and moving very very slow, Id say almost an hour os so jammed. Two emergency vehicles struggled to get through the traffic.
Past the junction for the A500 and heading up towards Keele, I saw what was causing the jam.
A motorcycle event moto cross or the like in a field to the left of the motorway. People were actually slowing right down to watch it ! absolute bonkers..... And who ever organised this should be told never ever do it again. It caused chaos.
Glenn63 said:
Tbf that sections always slow and busy everyday at rush hours as it’s 4 lanes down to 3 for m6 then lots of traffic joining from the A500, even worse on bank holiday weekend. There’s regular events on that field it’s like a hill climb job for dirt bikes.
thisIt was on Friday around 2.30pm there were no events on at all, it’s just traffic volume a slight bend in the road and then an uphill section to Keele services
it’s always slow always has been before the smart motorway
Traffic speeds up and the slows down on the approach to junc 16 uphill and the smart motorway section where everyone drives at 69 with their tin foil hats on cacking their knickers, they may be caught by cameras on every gantry
“cus you can’t trust emm – government they need the money”
Hanchurch Interchange is junction 15 of the M6. It opened in 1962, and was a short-lived temporary terminus for the section to the south..
The junction suffers from a cramped layout with tight loops and short merges. Various proposals to rebuild the junction have been made over the years as part of widening the M6.
Its pretty much the same as what it was when it first opened as a temporary terminus interchange.
Quite a few proposals were considered, including extending the toll M6 to the M56 as a parallel motorway. However thankfully they went the widen the M6 rather than the toll extension.
However now its really a pinch point 4 lanes to three and an uphill slog to keele services, where the elephants like to race...
But it was a pain on satruday to see what was causing the jam, pure and simple idiots slowing down to watch the bikes in the field, right after that it all resumed to normal service again.
The junction suffers from a cramped layout with tight loops and short merges. Various proposals to rebuild the junction have been made over the years as part of widening the M6.
Its pretty much the same as what it was when it first opened as a temporary terminus interchange.
Quite a few proposals were considered, including extending the toll M6 to the M56 as a parallel motorway. However thankfully they went the widen the M6 rather than the toll extension.
However now its really a pinch point 4 lanes to three and an uphill slog to keele services, where the elephants like to race...
But it was a pain on satruday to see what was causing the jam, pure and simple idiots slowing down to watch the bikes in the field, right after that it all resumed to normal service again.
I was heading south on Saturday and saw all the traffic build up. There where spectators on lots of the bridges looking at the northbound section. I suspect the area you mention appeared to have a load of bikers on the bridge and that's where the southbound queue freed up and the north bound queue started. I assumed it was watching a load of bikers on the motorway didn't realise there was something else too.
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