Anyone use it this morning from 8:00am?

A few thousand Im guessing.

Believe it was really bad this morning. 3 cars and a lorry in a smash just before Croft interchange

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yeah total stand still just wondered what had gone on thanks. Cheers for that inspirational information yankee appreciate it

It's getting like that everyday now. Soon to take over from the M6 as the worst motorway in the North.

Always go through Burtonwood to get to work because the 62 is just so bad in a morning.

I thought it was quiet this morning at the Birchwood junction, obviously I know why now.

Also, a new 24/7 50mph limited is now in force between Bwood and Eccles on the 62 both ways with Avg speed cameras in place.

And just to add to all this meyhem, my train has been 20 mins late 3 days on the run

That's optimistic...apart from at weekends, reaching 50 either way on that particular stretch is very rare.

The main problem with the whole J10-J12 stretch of the M62 is that there is simply not enough road for the volume of traffic that uses it...A definite contender for road widening in the near future.

P.S. One more gripe....Why do fat, lazy parents insist on having to drive their precious children everywhere, thus creating gridlock at various stages of the day, throughout the town??

GET THE LAZY B******S WALKING!!....

Apparantly the accident was caused by a moron who came speeding off the slip road and cut across 2 lanes, no lorry was involved, i was eaves dropping into a convo between 3 scouse girls in Warrington A&E who were involved in it.

...and it was a BMW of course!

I just gave up this morning, I was stuck on the slip road at gemini for 20 mins with nothing moving at all, I just headed for the services and went to work from home instead.

I think it will be back to the train again for me from Monday even though it is an absolutely shocking service!

They should double the tax on petrol to reduce the amount of traffic on the road.

I leave around 7.30 every morning, never had any probs on the 62

Agreed....and also double the tax on burgers, chips and Coke to stop the fattys getting fat too!!....

I use the M62 every single working day about 7am and I am never able to get above 40mph. With these roads works which will last until March 2010 the journey will be even worse.

It actually shouldn't be, because the limit will be 50, which you never reach anyway, so you shouldn't be able to spot a difference...

With the majority of my work being around the Manchester area, those road works WILL reduce me to tears at some point, i'm sure of it. The whole year to do them, and they decide to do them over christmas....outside the Trafford Centre.....brilliant, a planning masterpiece.

Would you apply the same sort of taxation on fuel to lorries? (seen as the UK haulage industry is taxed to death presently)

Interesting that you say that the haulage industry is being taxed to death??....From my experience on the motorways (and I spend nearly everyday on various 1's throughout the country), I would say that there has never been a time when there has been more lorries on the road, both British & foreign, and for the most part it is this volume of lorries that actually slows down the transport network.

So personally, driving a few of these HGV's off the road would only be a good thing for me....If high taxation also stops selfish parents taking kids everywhere by car as well, then that's even better.

Overall there are less lorries on the road as hauliers are hit by the recession & lorry drivers are finding it increasingly difficult to find work.

Also if you 'drive lorries off the road' as you put it watch the supermarket shelves start emptying.

I would charge lorries an additional licence fee to use motorways outside of the hours from 9.00pm to 6.00am.

There would then be an additional charge for wagons to use anything other than the inside lane.

Whenever traffic slows on a motorway there is always a wagon in the second lane over-taking a wagon in the inside lane. The problems are then heightened as this often tempts women drivers to venture into the outside lane.

Sorry, there are more lorries than ever blocking the roads and as for the supermarket shelves??....Do you not honestly think that ASDA and their ilk will simply have their own private fleets??

I don't know where you get your information from at all fella as I have friends in this industry scratching around for work that isn't there. I know of three haulage companies (2 in Yorkshire, one in Warrington) that have gone to the wall in the last year. ASDA & their ilk do have their private fleets albeit some of the big four supermarkets do sub-contract their haulage & distribution to DHL, Stobart, Wincanton etc etc.

The 50 mph limit on the M62 and the M6 between Winwick and Haydock is not a limit as such, more of an ambition.
The queue on the M6 north bound to access the M62 to Manchester is caused mainly by ignorant drivers who refuse to join that queue and then block the M6 lane when they find they can't get into the queue further down.
They should be booked for obstruction!