A road safety scheme has just completed in the heart of Rochdale town centre.
The project has seen the delivery of a new crossing at St Mary’s Gate, a major route through Rochdale town centre, alongside a host of other improvements.
The crossing includes separate sections for cyclists and pedestrians to make it as easy as possible for people to use sustainable forms of transport.
Access to the nearby Hunter’s Lane car park, which sits between Yorkshire Street and St Mary’s Gate, has been improved, with motorists now able to enter and exit via Hunter’s Lane. The 40-space car park has also been reconfigured to make it much easier to use and access local businesses.
The pathway linking Spotland Road and Redcross Street has also been rebuilt and improved, and now includes a dedicated, segregated section for cyclists.
Wider work to improve the nearby subway close the Townhead Junction is also under way and will complete soon. The improvements to the subway, which links High Street and Cheetham Street, include widening the opening to significantly improve visibility, repainting and cleaning the inside and boosting the lighting.
The work will be a significant safety boost for a stretch of road which saw 17 collisions between January 2018 and December 2023, 2 of which were fatal. The data shows that those accidents which involved pedestrians took place because people were trying to cross the road without using a crossing point.
