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Traffic leaving the eastern end of the A57M, onto the A635.

The Mancunian Way is a two mile-long stretch of elevated urban motorway in Manchester which forms the southern part of the Manchester and Salford Inner Ring Road. It was constructed in two phases between 1963 and 1967 and was officially opened by then-Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, on 5 May 1967. At the time of its opening, the Manchester Evening News referred to it as the "highway in the sky". In the 1970s it was upgraded to motorway status as the A57(M) and the speed limit was raised to 50 miles per hour (80 km/h). It is officially made up of the A57(M) and A635(M) motorways, although the latter does not appear on road signs for practical reasons.