Transport in Preston Transport in Preston Preston is a city in Lancashire, around North-west of Manchester. The Preston By-pass was the first part of the M6 Motorway, the longest motorway in the country. It was made a motorway in 1958, being the first motorway in the United Kingdom. It is now the stretch between Junction 29 (A6 and M65, Bamber Bridge) and Junction 1 of the M55 (A6 Preston North), with four intermediate junctions – J30, J31, J31A and J32. The other motorway within the city is the M55 (Preston - Blackpool), and it is also served by the M65 (Preston - East
M5 motorway (Northern Ireland) M5 motorway (Northern Ireland) The M5 is a spur motorway of 1.4 miles (2.3 km) length in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. It connects the M2 to the A2 Shore Road at Hazelbank in Newtownabbey. It is a dual two lane road with most of the road on a causeway in Belfast Lough in order to bypass Whitehouse beach. Originally announced in 1964 and planned to follow the route of the B90 to Carrickfergus, the M5 would have also joined the planned M6 motorway. The scale of the scheme was reduced to its present form in the 1969 transport review, but