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Manchester council, performing a prohibited right turn M56
Junction 6
DIR By: settop23
Date: March 27, 2025, 10:35 am
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Hello,
I have receieved a PCN from Manchester City Council for an
alleged moving traffic contravention. Would it be worth
appealing this, I was following satnav and as it was dark I did
not see any no right turn signs or anything similar (haven't
been to the area before).
Please find attached PCN :
HTML https://imgur.com/a/3IQarZl
Many thanks
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Re: Manchester council, performing a prohibited right turn M56
Junction 6
DIR By: jfollows
Date: March 27, 2025, 10:45 am
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This is my local motorway junction, and this prohibited turn has
been mentioned quite frequently in the last year. I’m guessing
that you went straight on, then turned right at the lights
rather than going left in the first place and round.
I note that there was a proposal for a camera to catch/enforce
this specific violation. It may well have been implemented now.
I can’t comment on the signage because I’ve been using this
junction for so long that I don’t look at it. I think there is a
“no right turn” sign on the westbound through road which is
relatively new, but in response to people doing - presumably -
what you did.
For those unfamiliar, on the east side of the motorway there’s a
roundabout into which the westbound motorway exit feeds, plus
there’s a road through the middle of the roundabout which is
only for traffic going straight on towards Hale or the M56
towards Manchester in the westbound direction (and towards
Wilmslow only eastbound). Traffic for the airport environs from
Wilmslow has to turn left and follow the roundabout.
If you did what I think you did, I think you’re only going to
escape payment on a technicality.
The road layout has not changed for many years, indeed not since
the M56 opened I don’t think, but it seems that people turning
right when prohibited is either a relatively recent problem or
nobody noticed or cared before.
See
HTML https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/drivers-could-soon-fined-seven-25009655,<br
/>for example.
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Re: Manchester council, performing a prohibited right turn M56
Junction 6
DIR By: jfollows
Date: March 27, 2025, 3:37 pm
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If you want to know more, please confirm exactly what you did,
but I’m reasonably sure there’s a “no right turn” sign on the
westbound through road.
If suitably motivated (I’m not talking ££, just personal
interest) I can go and check for you.
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Re: Manchester council, performing a prohibited right turn M56
Junction 6
DIR By: jfollows
Date: March 28, 2025, 3:19 am
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If you did what I think you did, and you told me (in a private
message) you’d check this, then see
HTML https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200024/consultations_and_surveys/8436/moving_traffic_contraventions_consultation/8<br
/>which has a no right turn sign, a no U-turn sign and traffic
lights showing “ahead only”. The picture is looking westbound,
away from Wilmslow and towards Hale, because the motorway
overbridge is in the distance.
It’s also on Google Street View, as it says, which I just about
managed to make work.
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