M62 Motorway

The M62 Motorway

The M62 is the main trans-Pennine motorway, linking Liverpool and Manchester with Leeds and Hull, and it climbs to the highest point on any English motorway.

Where to Find M62 Traffic News

A dedicated M62 website is coming soon, in the same style as our other motorway sites. Until it is live, you can find all the news for the M62 and the other motorways and major roads in England on the all-news page on Traffic News England. Choose M62 in the road filter to see only the M62, or search for a junction to find the stretch you will be travelling between.

For news by area, see the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber pages on Traffic News England, which cover the M62 together with the other main roads in those regions.

Information About the M62 Motorway

The M62 motorway is 107 miles (172 km) long and runs East North Cave, Kingston Upon Hull) straight across Northern England to the West Knotty Ash, Liverpool.

7 miles of the motorway are part of the M60 motorway which circulates Greater Manchester.

The M62 connects to the M60 at its Junction 10 which is a major motorway junction.

The M62 also links to the M60 at junction 12 and junction 18.

And the M62 links the M1 at junction 29

Plus links the A1(M) at junction 32a of the M62.

Primary City destinations are Liverpool, Salford, Manchester, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, and Hull.

The M62 runs through the counties of Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire.

The M62 was formed between 1960 and 1976.

The first UK road to be built to motorway standard was the Preston Bypass which later became part of the M6.

The M62 in numbers

Traffic on the M62 as counted by the Department for Transport.

about 95,000

vehicles a day

on an average stretch of the M62. The busiest stretch carries about 150,000 a day.

1 in 7

vehicles is a lorry

and about 1 in 5 is a van, so a large share of M62 traffic is people at work.

Source: Department for Transport road traffic statistics, 2025. Averages across the whole road; rounded.

See also: M62 traffic reports · all the motorways we cover.