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The traffic snarl-ups between Wigan and Bolton have dogged the two towns for decades, prompting appeals for millions from the Government for a link road between the M6 and the M61 motorways, which would alleviate the issue.

And now, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who has visited the Wigan area twice in recent weeks, has had direct experience of the congestion that local politicians say has been harming business growth in the north Manchester corridor, probably since the end of the Second World War.

To people living around Wigan and Bolton the problems getting between the two towns by road are notorious. Some say they are ‘world famous’.

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