Prestwich Regeneration Consultation
WRPW is pleased to see that amongst the ambitions in the 'Your Prestwich' brochure Bury Council and Muse have said they want "A people first approach that promotes more active and outdoor lifestyles, through new public spaces with walking and cycling routes" and "Strengthening Prestwich's green transport infrastructure to be safe, accessible and well connected". We can't stress how important we feel that the development needs more than well intentioned words! We have already been involved in a workshop with the developers and expect further involvement. As well as the development itself we want to see parallel commitments to improvements in Prestwich wide connectivity for walking and cycling. We are preparing a consultation document focussing more on the transport issues than the proposed built environment to be submitted by 19 March 2023. If you would like to join our working group please get in touch with us at [email protected] Bury New Road Crossing Times Walk Ride Greater Manchester has issued a 'Call to Action' for putting pedestrians first at crossings (https://walkridegm.org.uk/2023/01/15/call-to-action-lets-put-pedestrians-first-at-crossings/). Already there has been some success in Stretford, Chorlton and Levenshulme. We wrote to the Greater Manchester Urban Traffic Control Unit to see if something can be done to improve the frustrating and long wait times at the five crossings on Bury New Road between M&S and St Mary's Road. They wrote back after contacting Bury Council. We are delighted to report that adjustments have now been made at the crossings outside the Cancer Research shop and the Methodist Church. We'll keep checking on them, and on the one by St Mary's Road. The two crossings either side of the Fairfax Road junction are linked to the timing of the traffic signals and apparently can't be easily modified. M60 Simister Island - National Highways opportunity for better walking and cycling routes National Highways (formerly Highways England) has a very expensive scheme to build new infrastructure to "reduce delays" at M60 Junction 18, Simister Island. They are consulting on the plans from Wednesday 15 February to Tuesday 28 March 2023 (https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/north-west/m60-junction-18-simister-island-interchange/). We are engaging with them in webinars and will be responding to their consultation - there are a lot of re-routing temporary closures of footpaths proposed. We believe NH can do a lot for better walking and cycling routes either as part of the scheme or under their Designated Funds and put together these ideas: https://walkridepw.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/5/2/18527728/wrpw_m60_and_simister_ideas.pdf . The cost would be small change compared with the planned £300million of road building! One thing that should be done without delay is to sort out the muddy Haweswater Underpass that is part of the path between Parrenthorn and Unsworth. We are calling on all prospective councillors from all parties in Holyrood, Besses and Unsworth wards in the May Council elections to support this. Whittaker Lane closure The top end of Whittaker Lane by the shops is to be closed for three months for telecoms work. It will be interesting to see what the effect on traffic will be, and if it does show that ideas contained in the now dropped Heaton Park Active neighbourhood would actually work and not cause the chaos its opponents claimed it would.
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