January 2024
Phase 2 works starting from 22 January 2024
This month, work is starting on several measures in Phase 2 of the Levenshulme and Burnage Active Neighbourhood Scheme
Works will commence from 22 January at Broom Lane at the junction with Curtis Road, on Grangethorpe Road at its junction with Burnage Lane and Crossley Road, on Broom Lane (between Curtis Street and Stockport Road).
Traffic management will be in place while the works take place, including temporary traffic lights. Residents and businesses who live beside areas where works will be happening will receive local communication from the contractor about when works will start, how long they will last, and what they will involve before work starts.
From 29 January, installation of the road markings, signs and filters on Linden Park and Milwain Road will begin. Again, residents immediately adjacent to the works will receive more detail.
Detail of the areas where work will be starting soon and continuing for several months are:
Broom Lane
All existing side roads off Broom Lane are currently part of a 20mph zone. The works starting in January will extend the 20mph zone to include Broom Lane, with a range of traffic calming features and improved crossing facilities.
Over the next few months, the new measures being installed will include:
20MPH zone signs at top and bottom ends of Broom Lane (i.e. junctions with Barlow Road and Stockport Road) with 20mph road markings throughout the full length of Broom Lane.
Footway on west side of Broom Lane to be widened from the junction with Stockport Road to the junction with Cronshaw Street.
A raised table and crossing points at the junction of Broom Lane with Watts Street.
Textured paving at all new and upgraded crossings.
Flat top hump crossing points at the junctions of Bowler Street, Cronshaw Street, Tonbridge Road, Elmsworth Avenue, Broom Avenue, Thorncliffe Grove, Curtis Road.
A built out ‘chicane’ on the eastern side of Broom Lane just north of the junction with Tonbridge Road, reducing the carriageway to one lane, with vehicles travelling south giving way to vehicles travelling north.
A large, raised table and crossing points at the junction of Broom Lane with Briston Avenue and Pullman Close.
A raised table and crossing point at the junction of Broom Lane with Cranage Road.
Existing ineffective speed cushions south of the junction, located near 135 and 161 Broom Lane to be removed.
New signal-controlled crossing outside 148 Broom Lane
A large, raised table and crossing points at the junction of Broom Lane with Chapel Street and Highfield Road.
A full width, flat top hump near 197 Broom Lane.
A large, raised table and crossing points at the junction of Broom Lane with Carnegie Avenue and Dorset Road.
Existing round top hump on Dorset Road to be removed.
Burnage Lane / Grangethorpe Drive junction
Work will include installing a pedestrian puffin crossing (with signal lights on the same side of the road as the user, and a sensor which detects pedestrians waiting).
Works will also include:
Tactile paving on all crossing points.
Resurfacing road and footways around the junction
Building out kerbs to make the roads easier to cross at the junction
A rain garden on the Northwest side of the junction outside 86 Burnage Lane
Raised plateau crossing point on Alexandria Drive
Grangethorpe Drive
Work is starting to create a 20MPH zone on Grangethorpe Drive between Kingsway in the west and Burnage Lane in the east, install traffic calming measures and make crossing easier.
New measures include:
A raised continuous walkway across the top of Burnside Drive where it meets Grangethorpe Drive.
A large, raised table at the junctions of Grangethorpe Drive, Orville Drive and Hoscar Drive.
Numerous existing road humps to be removed and carriageway resurfaced at those points.
A raised continuous walkway across the bottom end of Lynton Drive where it meets Grangethorpe Drive.
A new flat-top hump outside number 19 Grangethorpe Drive.
The next few months
Work is scheduled to start on Marley Road, Chapel Street, Crayfield Road and Cromwell Grove in the next few months. Again, updates on here will give more detail, and properties near the works will receive additional local communication.