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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It was great to see Dom Whiting return to Manchester in October 2025, for a rather last minute surprise Drum & Bass ride. He had asked his followers on Facebook a week before to vote for either Liverpool or Manchester and Manchester won!
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After many years of hoping, and a few years of development, the first phase of Stretford’s new town centre is finally open! While there’s still much work to be done on the fit-out of the units, there was a party atmosphere in the new Sir Tony Lloyd Square today for the official opening.
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I wasn’t able to make last month’s Critical Mass, after going in April for the first time in a long time. While it wasn’t exactly sunny, it was pretty warm and remained dry for the ride, which is always a bonus!
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It’s been a while since I’ve been to Manchester Critical Mass, close to two years now. Numbers had dropped off in recent years and it got a bit disheartening turning up.
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While I’ve covered many cycle routes abroad and a few around the UK, I’ve been meaning to do the same for the rides I do locally around Manchester.
So, Inspired by Laura Laker’s fantastic book Potholes and Pavements: A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network, here’s the first in what may become a series, featuring sections of the UK’s National Cycle Network.
Continue reading “Stretford to Stockport on the Mersey River Path and Fallowfield Loop”
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.
Continue reading “More from Stretford-on-sea (Kingsway) – February 2024”
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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Dom Cycling 