The motorway , which was first proposed in the 1930s , and conceived as two separate routes , was opened in stages between 1971 and 1976 , with construction beginning at Pole Moor and finishing at that time in Tarbock on the outskirts of Liverpool . The motorway absorbed the northern end of the Stretford-Eccles bypass , which was built between 1957 and 1960 . Adjusted for inflation to 2007 , its construction cost approximately £ 765 million . The motorway has an average daily traffic flow of 144,000 vehicles in West Yorkshire , and has several areas prone to gridlock , in particular , between Leeds and Huddersfield and the M60 section around Eccles . The M62 coach bombing of 1974 and the Great Heck rail crash of 2001 are the largest incidents to have occurred on the M62
M62 coach bombing
M62 coach bombing
M62 motorway