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 M606 highlighted in blue | ||||
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| Maintained byNational Highways | ||||
| Length | 3 mi (4.8 km) | |||
| Existed | 1972–present | |||
| History | Completed in 1973, northern terminus reconstructed in 2004 | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end | Cleckheaton | |||
| Major intersections |   J1 →M62 motorway | |||
| North end | Bradford | |||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||
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TheM606 is a 3-mile-long (5 km) stretch ofmotorway inWest Yorkshire, England. Called the Bradford Spur motorway, the M606 leaves theM62 motorway at junction 26, nearCleckheaton, and heads intoBradford, to join theA6177Bradford Ring Road. It is officially named the "Bradford South Radial Motorway" and was opened in 1973.
The northern end of the M606, closest to the city, was built with a large raisedroundabout crossing theBradford Ring Road, but the original plans to continue the motorway under the roundabout[citation needed] were not carried out: access was only by slip roads to and from the roundabout.
In 1999, a new slip road was built that allowed eastward traffic on the ring road, via a mini-roundabout, to enter the motorway directly and avoid the Staygate roundabout.
In 2004, the junction was further remodelled, so that traffic leaving the motorway and wishing to turn eastward on the ring road continues under the roundabout, and round to join the roundabout from the opposite site, so that it has a left rather than a right turn to make (via two sets of traffic lights).
Staygate roundabout is very close toOdsal Stadium, the home of therugby league clubBradford Bulls.[1]
The southerly junction with the M62 is known as the Chain Bar Interchange and features free-flowing sliproads from the Manchester direction M62 traffic to Bradford, but not theLeeds direction, which has to use the complex traffic-light controlled roundabout.
In 2007, work started on the M606 to create the UK's first motorway carpool lane (also known as high-occupancy vehicle orHOV lane). The 1-mile (1.6 km) lane scheme was on the M606 southbound and allowed vehicles with more than one person in the car a fast track onto theM62 eastbound at Junction 26. In August 2017 the lane's restriction was removed and is now open to all traffic.[2][3]
In September 2016, it was revealed that the M606 is the slowest part of the motorway network averaging 24.6 miles per hour (39.6 km/h).[4]
| County | Location | mi | km | Junction | Destinations | Notes |
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| West Yorkshire | Bradford | 0 | 0 | 1[coord 1] |  M62 - Manchester, Leeds A58 - Leeds, Halifax A638 - Cleckheaton, Wakefield | |
| 1.5 | 2.4 | 2[coord 2] | Oakenshaw, Low Moor | No northbound entrance | ||
| 2.4 | 3.9 | 3[coord 3] |  A6036 - Halifax A6177 - Bradford | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||
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