Salford on track with £20m Trafford Road cycleway

A £15m scheme to improve one of Manchester’s busiest routes has now completed in a bid to decrease journey times to and from Salford.

The Hawkins\Brown-designed bridge, linking New Bailey in Salford and Manchester’s St Johns, has secured funding from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

Cheshire East has granted planning consent for an 800-space car park on Green Belt land for Manchester Airport, after deferring a decision earlier this year.

The £12m link road, designed to unlock the 1,700-home Rivington Chase housing development, has been granted planning consent by Bolton Council.

The fate of the multi-billion-pound high-speed rail project, and associated large-scale developments around Manchester and Crewe, will be decided by the autumn after the Government confirmed it has commissioned a review into “whether and how HS2 should proceed”.

Schemes in Cumbria, Wigan, Cheadle, and Liverpool have all been put forward as part of a £700m funding pitch to the Government by Transport for the North.

Transport for Greater Manchester has fired the starting gun on an £88m consultancy framework covering disciplines including civil engineering, street design, project management, and sustainability.

A £12m link road, one of the key components in the wider £262m Rivington Chase development site, is set to be approved by Bolton Council next week.

Network Rail has completed works to a stretch of track between Altrincham and Ashley to boost journey times between Manchester and Chester via Northwich.