An engineering scheme to install concrete central reservation barriers along a 19-mile stretch of the M62 motorway has been scrapped, reportedly on cost grounds.
National Highways said the planned 'barrier upgrade' between junction 20 at Thornham Island for Rochdale and Oldham and junction 25 for Brighouse, in West Yorkshire, has been cancelled after a 'further appraisal of the project'.
The route runs through the Pennines over Saddleworth Moor and features the highest point on a motorway in England, at Windy Hill near Denshaw, Oldham.
