Airport Interchange
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Airport Interchange | |||
Location Map ( geo) | |||
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Location | |||
Wythenshawe, Manchester | |||
County | |||
Cheshire | |||
Highway Authority | |||
National Highways | |||
Junction Type | |||
Directional T | |||
Roads Joined | |||
M56 | |||
This article is about the junction at Manchester Airport.
For other Airport junctions, see Airport Roundabout.
For other Airport junctions, see Airport Roundabout.
Airport Interchange is junction 5 of the M56: the main junction connecting Manchester Airport to the motorway network. The junction, opened in 1972, is incomplete as the airport spur was to continue northwestwards to join the M63, now M60, near Sale. Additional slip roads would enable traffic from the south to reach the M63 by cutting the corner and avoiding a short section of Princess Parkway.
Despite the opening of the A555 in 2018 as an eastward extension of the airport spur, the A555 remains unmentioned on signage on the M56 mainline or at the intermediate GSJ on the spur.
Routes
Route | To | Notes |
Manchester, Stockport (M60), Sheffield (M67), Leeds (M62), Bolton (M61) | ||
Warrington, Chester, Birmingham (M6 South), Preston, Liverpool (M6 North), Freight Terminal | ||
Manchester Airport, Quarry Bank Mill | This is the link road to Manchester Airport | |
Manchester Airport, Quarry Bank Mill | ||
(M61, M62, M63), Altrincham, Stretford, Sale |