Help me out UTC
Which is the best route by car to get to Burnley from Sheffield.
Glossop and M66 ground to a halt yesterday!

Personally I go M1, M62, M606 to Bradford, then skirt round Bradford on the back roads to Colne via Haworth and on to Burnley that way. But if you don't know the back roads might not be advisable. Going through Bradford itself is never good.

Yep I was going to say exactly that

The other option is ainley top > Calder valley but you can’t avoid the bottleneck of hebden bridge

M1, M62, M66, A56.

I live in South Leeds, 5 minutes from the M1, M62 junction. Using the motorways is the long way round but definitely the quickest (1 hour for me), every other way is slow going somewhere; I've tried them all over the years and none of the other routes are as fast.

SouthLondonexile wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:41 am

Help me out UTC
Which is the best route by car to get to Burnley from Sheffield.
Glossop and M66 ground to a halt yesterday!

M66, M60, M67 Woodhead and M1. Your there then. I do it regularly. Around Bradford and Leeds on the M62 can be a pain. OOps in reverse!!!

Thank u , v helpful. SLE

Glossop and M66 via Snake Pass is by far the best unless your starting point is near the M1. The below wouldn’t apply if Woodhead is the route.

Got to hook around the northern bit of Glossop by heading up Manor Park Road, Talbot Road and Dinting Road then cut back along the main road A57 half a mile and head south up Glossop Road via Broadbottom, turning down the side of the Tesco Extra to hook onto the M67. Easy to spot this route by looking at it on Google Maps. Carves through the traffic no problem.

1hr 25m for me yesterday to get parked up on Centenary Way.

Not wanting to be a smart arse, but following the sat nav really is your best bet. I live north of Leeds and have 3 or 4 different routes with little between them in terms of time. But an accident on the motorway, or some temporary traffic lights etc. will make all the difference, and the sat nav will update your route in real time.

There was a big hold up on the M66 due to a bad crash yesterday.

That can happen on any road.

I travel all over the country, there is no quicker way than following the Waze App. It will sometimes throw up that odd bizarre diversion but overall it saves a lot of travelling time.

Uber use it as their core system

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 31, 2021 9:47 am

There was a big hold up on the M66 due to a bad crash yesterday.

That can happen on any road.

Bumped into my mate in the concourse at half time and commented on what a good half we’d just seen. He’d only just made it to the ground due to that accident.

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 31, 2021 9:47 am

There was a big hold up on the M66 due to a bad crash yesterday.

That can happen on any road.

I passed it just after the incident before the police arrived, one van and two cars, didn’t look too bad but it had blocked one lane. Joining up Manchester and the M65 corridor needs three lanes all the way, “levelling up” in action. No way could I do that commute every day in rush hour.

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 31, 2021 9:57 am

Bumped into my mate in the concourse at half time and commented on what a good half we’d just seen. He’d only just made it to the ground due to that accident.

My mate got stuck there on the bus coming over, he normally gets the train but they weren't running. Depending where the accident was cars could come off but a bus sticks to the route.
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No way could I do that commute every day in rush hour.
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I did this commute every day for years around 10 years ago. It was quite smooth with little problems. I accept more and more traffic keeps appearing on the roads though and its certainly busy going towards Manchester in a morning. I was always on before 7am though.

Woodhead all day long.
M60 anti. To m66.
You know the rest.

My favoured route for a while was to come off the m62 at junction 21 and head through littleborough and todmorden to avoid the seemingly never ending road works on the road from Halifax. Those road works seem to have lessened now so I am back to coming off the m62 at junction 24. The real pain is that for midweek games I need to be setting off by 4pm from Doncaster to get through the build up of traffic between junction 28 and 26. These midweek games such as for the recent Spurs game can easily be 4 and a half hour round trip drives. My wife has decided after much reflection over the years that putting myself through nights like that is an addiction for which there is no cure.