£2m overhaul for troubled bike lane
Manchester Evening News|July 17, 2024
A CONTROVERSIAL and cycle lane 'ham-fisted' plagued by petitions and cone thieves is to get a £2m makeover.
ALFIE MULLIGAN
£2m overhaul for troubled bike lane

In 2023, police were called to the makeshift path on the A56 Chester Road in Stretford.

A thief had stolen more than 600 cones in a move Trafford's Conservative leader Nathan Evans said he 'totally understood.

The temporary cycle lane was installed at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in an effort to 'promote walking, wheeling and cycling choices for shorter journeys, according to Trafford council. But, the scheme proved unpopular with some with a petition to scrap it receiving nearly 3,000 signatures in 2021.

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