M61 motorway the filming of "The Services", a pilot episode for the Farnworth-born comedian Peter Kay series "That Peter Kay Thing", a spoof documentary of a day in the life of the services staff. Data from driver location signs are used to provide distance information. M61 motorway The M61 is a motorway in North West England. It runs from the M60 motorway northwest of Manchester and heads northwest past Bolton and Chorley to join the M6 just north of the junction between the M6 and M65 motorways to the south of Preston. Perhaps the most distinguishing section of the M61 is to
Motorways in the Republic of Ireland Motorways in the Republic of Ireland In Ireland, the highest category of road is a motorway ("mótarbhealach", plural: "mótarbhealaí"), indicated by the prefix M followed by a one- or two-digit number (the number of the national route of which each motorway forms a part). The motorway network predominantly consists of two-lane dual carriageways and is primarily focused upon Dublin, although there are a few three-lane motorways and the M50 has four lanes at some points. The completion of the Major Inter-Urban Motorway Project in December 2010, which saw Dublin connected to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway by