Stocksbridge Bypass
The bypass was opened in May 1988 and is a road that links the M1 motorway at Junction 35A (and J36) to the Woodhead Pass (one of the main trans-Pennine roads from Sheffield to Manchester) bypassing the towns of Stocksbridge and Deepcar. It has been said that the Stocksbridge bypass was originally planned to be part of the M67 motorway.
The speed limit on the A616 is enforced using a digital speed camera system called SPECS which calculates the average speed of a vehicle over the distance travelled between two cameras using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology. This set of speed cameras is thought by locals not to be in current use, but nonetheless acts as a strong deterrent against speeding. There are frequent head-on collisions on the bypass.
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