A junction on the M62 leaves drivers confused every day.
At Junction 23, near Huddersfield, you cannot legally exit if you are travelling west. At the same time, you cannot join the M62 westbound from Junction 23 either.
Because of this, some may refer to it as 'half a junction' since it cannot be used to the same capacity as other junctions on the motorway. However, the inconvenience isn't the result of shoddy engineering, Yorkshire Live reports.
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The reason you cannot exit westbound at Junction 23 is because it leads to the A643 Lindley Moor Road as well as a housing estate in the way which was there before the motorway was designed in the early 1960s. In order to get rid of the privately owned Mount housing estate and moving Lindley Moor Road to the south, a compulsory purchase is required.
In legal terms, this is an extremely complicated, expensive, and long procedure. Furthermore, moving the M62 north to accommodate an exit slip road would be extremely difficult because the terrain slopes steeply downward.
Because of the terrain, it is also impossible to join the eastbound M62 at Junction 23. It also makes very little sense to change considering there is an eastbound entry to the M62 less than two miles away at Junction 24.
Highways England said: "Lindley Moor Road is very close to the M62 so there is no room to accommodate an additional off-slip within the existing highway layout. To facilitate this proposal would require either re-aligning the M62 to the north or demolishing part of the Mount housing estate to move Lindley Moor Road to the south.
"Clearly, neither of these suggestions would be either economical or easy to implement. In relation to a loop off-slip road over the M62, the officer says: “...this would seem uneconomical and extremely difficult to implement, given the existing topography."
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