Lancashire four universities: Lancaster University, the University of Central Lancashire, Edge Hill University and the Lancaster campus of the University of Cumbria. Seven colleges offer higher education courses. The Lancashire economy relies strongly on the M6 motorway which runs from north to south, past Lancaster and Preston. The M55 connects Preston to Blackpool and is 11.5 miles (18.3 km) long. The M65 motorway from Colne, connects Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn to Preston. The M61 from Preston via Chorley and the M66 starting inside the county boundary near Edenfield, provide links between Lancashire and Manchester] and the trans-Pennine M62. The M58 crosses the
M6 motorway (Pakistan) not started yet due to pending Government and NHA decision. The 296-km stretch is the last missing link on the Karachi-Lahore motorway on which construction work has yet to be started. All the segments of 1650 KM Peshawar Karachi Motorway have either been completed or awarded for construction except Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway section of PKM. At its southern terminus, the M6 motorway will connect to the M9 motorway at Jamshoro for onward connections to Karachi. The route will then course towards the northeast, and connect to the N55 Indus Highway via an interchange. It will continue to course towards the northeast