M57 motorway Totally Explained

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The M57 motorway, also known as the Liverpool Outer Ring Road, is a road in England. Designed as a bypass road for Liverpool, it's 14 miles (22.5km) long and links various towns east of the city, as well as the M62 and M58 motorways.
The M57 is one of the few motorways in England that doesn't connect directly to any other motorways - both the M62 and M58 are accessible only via a very short section of all-purpose road.

Route

Starting at the Tarbock Interchange in Cronton, at the end of the A5300, the motorway heads north to the east of Huyton and west of Prescot and crosses the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It then runs across the north east of Huyton's suburbs before running west of Knowsley Village. After meeting the A580 at a split junction (numbered 4 & 5), it continues north west between Fazakerley and Kirkby, passes under the Kirkby and Ormskirk branches of the Merseyrail Northern Line before ending on Switch Island near Aintree. The motorway provides one of the main access routes to Aintree Racecourse.

History

The M57 was planned to be a complete bypass of Liverpool, meeting each of the main roads out of the city. As is normal in the United Kingdom, the M57 was to be built in stages. The first two opened were:

Junctions 1 to 4 were opened in 1974 as phase 2.
Junctions 4 to 7 were opened in 1972 as phase 1.

Phase 1 was proceeded with more rapidly as there had been industrial growth in the area, and it was considered important to improve traffic connections as soon as possible. Contemporary maps also showed a proposed southern extension, eventually constructed in the 1990s as the A5300. There are no known plans to complete the northern extension.
Improvements are currently underway to the junction with the M62 at Tarbock Island, intended to provide free-flow links between the M57 and the M62 east of the junction. Construction began in April 2007, with completion expected by autumn 2008.

Junctions

M57 Motorway

Northbound	Junction	Southbound
Huyton, Liverpool (Central) Manchester, Warrington, Widnes M62	J1	Road continues as A5300 to Runcorn & Liverpool Airport
Start of Motorway	J1	Huyton, Liverpool (Central) Manchester, Warrington, Widnes M62
Prescot, St. Helens A57	J2	Prescot A57
No exit	J3	Huyton A526
St. Helens, Bootle A580	J4	Knowsley, Industrial Estates A580
No exit	J5	St. Helens A580
Kirkby, Fazakerley A506	J6	Kirkby, Fazakerley A506
Liverpool (Central) Southport, Ormskirk A59 Docks, Bootle A5036 Skelmersdale, Wigan, Preston M58	J7 Switch Island	Start of motorway

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