East Level 2
Well-Known Member
Get yourself a 1970s A-Z and you'll see just how many roads have already been pedestrianised and made one-way. Cannon Street, Market Street, Albert Square past the front of the town hall heading south, busses only on Oxford Road and bits of Portland Street. Pedestrianisation and one-way systems aren't the answer they are part of the problem.Manchester is still mainly set out as it was built before cars were in abundance as a densely populated place, most roads both major or minor cannont handdle the amount of cars in motion or parked.
All major rds into and out of Manchester city centre are packed, as are buses and trams in rush hr
One way systems and pedestrianisation of a mile raditius of the city centre is an option
Farming out business and industry to the other towns in GM rather than it all being centred in town would help.
Basically the city is too small and compact for it's growth.
It might improve for a few months if they ever finish the M60 work, but will then be back to chaos when they turn the eastern side into a "not very smart" motorway.
And we need a proper ring road, not the wibbly, wobbly worm with more choke points than the Boston Strangler that we currently enjoy.
Every time a road is closed or has reduced width due to construction work we have even more problems as the alternatives have already been closed.