MediaCity:UK, new development, same old crap designs.........

Here are some photos of the new cycleway built by Salford City Council, as part of a wider road scheme connecting Eccles with MediaCity:UK.

This road was originally proposed to be built in the late 1980s/early 1990s, but a lack of funding meant it was never completed until recently.

Anyhow, here was an opportunity, as part of a showcase development, to introduce high quality standards to segregated cycle infrastructure, as recommended by DfT and (soon to be defunct) Cycling England.

What we got was the usual hot-potch mess.........

Start of works/new section

Lack of priority over side road

Lack of priority over another



Forced to cross at tight angle over island



More lack of priority

Looking back towards Eccles



Looking forwards to Salford Quays



Almost there!

More lack of priority!

It then ends soon after, not even reaching the MediaCity:UK site!  What a joke!  I wonder what Salford City Council, or GMCC have to say?

Tributes to 20-year-old student struck by car and killed as she walked to her Saturday job - Manchester Evening News

Tributes to 20-year-old student struck by car and killed as she walked to her Saturday job - Manchester Evening News


Another bright young female needlessly killed, IMO. Manchester City Council and Oldham MBC should hang their heads in shame. After the M60 was built, Hollinwood Avenue should have been traffic calmed. Instead, it remains a dual-carriageway 40mph racetrack through a suburban area. This incident occurred where there are complex junctions, local shops and businesses, and the local (Moston) railway station entrance. Speed limit of 20mph and vertical traffic calming would be more appropriate here.

Local authorities are as much to blame as the driver, in their failure to deliver safer streets for people.

Teenage girl 'killed by speeding driver’, he gets the clear

Teenage girl 'killed by speeding driver’ as she crossed road, court told - Manchester Evening News


'Boorish' driver in a rush to kill

Despite claiming to be 'driving safely', he blindly overtook another car (having tailgated the woman driver), was speeding at 43mph in 30mph zone, and acted without due care and attention or though for others, or the community, he was travelling through.

If this was Northern Europe, he'd have the book thrown at him and locked away for a long time.

When I raised the issue with Manchester City Council, who have responsibility for the A5103 Princess Road, they said their 'approach has been very successful' and only '190 people were killed or seriously injured' (2008 figures).