The Preferred Route would leave the M67 terminal roundabout in a northeasterly direction and pass under the A6018 Roe Cross Road, Old Road and Old Hall Lane in a tunnel some 120 metres north of the point where those roads converge. This tunnel would be about 1 70 metres long.
To the east of this area the route continues to a roundabout which provides for a link road down to the A57 Mottram Moor. A proposed local authority road would continue this link to the A57 at Woolley Bridge. To the east of the roundabout , the preferred route would proceed in a northeasterly direction, then curving southeasterly to join the existing A628 east of Tintwistle near Townhead Farm.