After commencing work in April this year, the walking and cycling improvements on Chapel Street have been completed ahead of schedule, at the end of November 2025. The work was originally due to be completed in early 2026.
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A lot has happened since my last post on Kingsway, back in February 2024. At that time, I was checking out the newly installed sun loungers, which were receiving some attention in the media, due to another disingenuous campaign by Trafford Tories, who clearly don’t like money being spent outside their heartland in the south of the borough.
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Well, what a difference a year makes! Or more accurately the 10 months since my last post on the A56 back in February 2024, when I asked if it was the end for the A56 pop-up cycle lanes. At that point, there was no apparent progress on the replacement for the pop-up scheme, with the remaining cones disappearing regularly. Well, I’m pleased to say things are now looking significantly brighter.
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It all looked so promising back in 2020, when Trafford Council had big ambitions to section off a seven mile stretch of the A56 with cones, to provide safe space for cycling. Now here we are, almost four years on and it looks like what remains of the cones are disappearing week by week, with no signs of them being replaced or anything more permanent happening. Is it the end of the A56 pop-up cycle lanes?
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Following on from last month’s update, some more from the transformation of Kingsway, Stretford as the work continues.
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For anyone familiar with my older posts about Stretford may remember proposals for Kingsway, way way back in 2015. These were part of the public realm scheme put forward by the old Tory exec, that saw most of the subways filled at the junction with the A56, making an absolute pig’s ear of the junction and not much else.
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The Princess Road roundabout is one of number of large busy junctions on Manchester’s inner ring road. Since it was built as part of the Mancunian Way in the 1967, somewhat unsurprisingly, it’s been dominated by motor traffic. It has also had a poor safety record, which has included the sad death of Jaye Bloomfield in 2014, who was killed by a speeding driver while she was cycling across one of the slip roads.
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This is part 3 of A56 pop-up cycle lanes and beyond, looking at Trafford Council’s response to walking and cycling during the 2020 pandemic and what it means for the future.
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This is part 2 of A56 pop-up cycle lanes and beyond, looking at Trafford Council’s response to walking and cycling during the 2020 pandemic and what it means for the future.
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This is part 1 of A56 pop-up cycle lanes and beyond, looking at Trafford Council’s response to walking and cycling during the 2020 pandemic and what it means for the future.
Continue reading “A56 pop-up cycle lanes and beyond (Part 1)”
Dom Cycling 