not a massive amount but usually an extra 15 to 20 minutes longer than the drive in,

the journey this morning took me 45 minutes exactly from leaving my drive to getting to my desk. thats about average and it "feels" quick due to the lack of stop start traffic.

the journey home feels even longer because I hit Queues almost from the moment I leave the car park... the 602 outbound is a pain up near the junction with the m60 and often the 62 outbound can just carry on being stop start all the way through to the junction with the M6.
Ive come home through Irlam many times when the 602 has been bad.

I do it regularly from J8 to near Victoria

In order of preference:
Bike - easy commute, free parking
Train - £7 a pop and be prepared to stand all the way
Car - have to be on the M62 before 7:30, central Manchester parking is not cheap

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I have done the commute for 3 years now from Latchford to Machester city (Ducie Street next to piccadilly). Done the train a couple of times but sometimes it can be late and you stand all the way. On top of this, part of my benefits at work is a Fuel Card so i do not have to pay for my fuel but would have to pay to park my car then get the train (£10 a day)

I drive and it is very dependant on traffic obviously. I have generally found that between Feb school holidays and Oct school holidays the roads are good and I can do the commute from Knutsford road to M62 J11 (avoid J9-J10 at all costs) then on to manchester in around 35 minutes. During Oct-Feb I find it takes around 45-50 minutes. However on a really bad day it has taken me 90 minutes but bear in mind i work next door to piccadilly.

Salford Quays isn't such a bad commute as it is just at the end of the M602 and the right hand lane is usually flowing at around 30-40 mph.

With the offer of 5k-10k for an extra 20 minutes drive I would definately do it in the current climate if the company you are moving to is offering a secure position. £300+ a month extra would be bliss (or £240 dependant on tax band)

Unfortunately it is going to move me up to the next tax band.....

I feel privilleged to be offered the job and is a permament role which is what i wanted as i am permanent at my current job. I hear that they are flexible on working so if you can get in early you leave early. Just waiting to hear from them today, and then i can hand my notice in to my boss....can't wait!

Thanks for the info....!

I can see your neck of town from my desk Biscuit. We could go for a beer pre match (assuming you don't still want to batter me).

Well I tried it yesterday for the first meeting about the things that could see me working in Manchester. I had to go by car as it was short notice and was on the M62 for quarter to eight. I was there for twenty to.

Coming back I left at exactly five o'clock and was back at ten to six. The drive home was fine once past the Sainsburys on route to the Motorway. The junctions just before that are just terrible. Off ramps and on ramps combined which just means a chaos of cars trying to cross over each other. They should solve it all by making the roundabout where the Motorway starts constantly open. Take the Manchester road that goes past Sainsburys & the Casino etc over or under the roundabout and straight onto the motorway (With the option to turn off onto the roundabout obviously).

I think the Highways Department heard you were coming. The last two days the traffic lights at the bottom of the slip road onto the M62 at Birchwood have been working which causes a long queue to get on the motorway adding at least 5 minutes onto my journey. They may well assist the motorway flow leading upto the junction but that's no benefit to me.

Some places have a strict dress code if your wearing this years kit you wont even get so much as a luke warm shandy...

that would make too much sense..... They have been doing work on the underpass(subway) for at least 12 months. know I dont know how much pedestrian traffic they are expecting to Walk to RRG Toyota but its surely going to be the fanciest Underpass in the world .....

how much must 12 months continual work on a roundabout and 100 metre underpass cost.... I would imagine once its finished theres going to one dam fine statue on it that will probably cost a couple of hundred grand as well.

even better though up near the uni just past Salford Crescent they have done away with a bus lane......(a short bus lane but a bus lane none the less)

but before you all celebrate and think at last common sense...they havent turned it back into another lane for cars, they've turned it into more pavement ....!!

its almost a dual carriage way for pedestrians ....!!

Salford Council cant beat em....

I'm with you on that one. It's been effing ridiculous trying to get in the last couple of days due to this. I'd say it's adding far worse than 5 minutes to my journey. More like 15-20. In fact, it now takes me longer to get from Padgate to the motorway than it does on the motorway from Birchwood to Eccles.

The thing is, the lights dont seem to lighten the motorway traffic either. Still takes as long as it did with the lights off.

Well im sorry but there is going to be an extra one on M62 travelling to Manchester, got what i wanted in the end so am made up.....

Part time lights at Birchwood M62 Junction were much much better today and no traffic leading back towards Birchwood shopping centre.

Also, for the last week at around 8.35, same time each day, there is a police prisoner van (presumably) surrounded by about 6 police cars heading from the city centre towards Warrington/Liverpool. Curious to know what/who that is every morning. Anyone know?

I've just e-mailed ha_info@highways.gsi.gov.uk the following Can you PLEASE turn OFF the traffic lights on the entry to the motorway of the eastbound Junction 11 of the M62 at Birchwood (Warrington East). They hadn't been used for at least a year, and caused no tail backs . Traffic joining the motorway always flowed freely. In the last fortnight, the lights have been put back into action in the morning, and have caused CHAOS, ensuing in a 2 mile (at least) BARELY MOVING traffic-jam on the A574, causing a knock on effect on supply roads to the A574. The amount of pollution this causes must be of serious concern. This has added an extra 20 minutes to a typical journey into Manchester, when there was no problem in the first place. The traffic lights themselves, have not eased congestion on the Motorway at all, when people are trying to join it. If you could get one of your Highway Patrol vehicles to go down the A574 @ 7:45, the occupants could see for themselves the problems these lights have created. Can the lights be turned off please, so that traffic can flow freely in the morning. If you use the A574, vent your spleen towards them. If enough of us do, maybe they might turn them off

I've just e-mailed ha_info@highways.gsi.gov.uk the following Can you PLEASE turn OFF the traffic lights on the entry to the motorway of the eastbound Junction 11 of the M62 at Birchwood (Warrington East). They hadn't been used for at least a year, and caused no tail backs . Traffic joining the motorway always flowed freely. In the last fortnight, the lights have been put back into action in the morning, and have caused CHAOS, ensuing in a 2 mile (at least) BARELY MOVING traffic-jam on the A574, causing a knock on effect on supply roads to the A574. The amount of pollution this causes must be of serious concern. This has added an extra 20 minutes to a typical journey into Manchester, when there was no problem in the first place. The traffic lights themselves, have not eased congestion on the Motorway at all, when people are trying to join it. If you could get one of your Highway Patrol vehicles to go down the A574 @ 7:45, the occupants could see for themselves the problems these lights have created. Can the lights be turned off please, so that traffic can flow freely in the morning. If you use the A574, vent your spleen towards them. If enough of us do, maybe they might turn them off

Did you see them in action this morning? They were much better. Staying on green for about 20 seconds and then red for only a couple. When I got over birchwood way (near the roundabout with the scrap metal or whatever its meant to be) I was expecting the usual dead end of traffic just after but this morning I made it all the way to the junction and only que'd on the slip road for about 10 seconds. If it stayed like that things would be OK, but I willl email regardless.