Improvements by section
This consultation is now closed
The following lists improvements planned by area, you can also view a map with the locations of each improvement and have your say.
- Between Totnes Road and Withington Road
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- Repairing or replacing existing steps and ramps
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- Replacing direction signs
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Between Withington Road and Princess Road
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Creating new access points
- Widening access points
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Better drainage, with planted areas to absorb water and prevent flooding
- New crossings at access points (including ‘toucan’ crossings which allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross separately and safely), and a parallel crossing or ‘cycle box’.
- Junction improvements near access points
- Between Princess Road and Yew Tree Road
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Better drainage, with planted areas to absorb water and prevent flooding
- Manhole cover improvements
- Between Yew Tree Road and Wilmslow Road
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- New crossings at access points (including ‘toucan’ crossings which allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross separately and safely), and a parallel crossing or ‘cycle box’.
- Junction improvements near access points
- Between Wilmslow Road and Kingsway
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- A skate park
- Wildflower gardens and fairy gardens to attract local insects with native flower species which are then kept and maintained by a local school who sponsor them as part of a Forest School teaching programme.
- Bridge repairs and resurfacing
- Between Kingsway and 'Levenshulme Station'(A6)
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- Repairing or replacing existing steps and ramps
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Better drainage, with planted areas to absorb water and prevent flooding
- Between 'Levenshulme Station' (A6) and Highfield Road
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- Repairing or replacing existing steps and ramps
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Better drainage, with planted areas to absorb water and prevent flooding
- Between Highfield Road and Longford Road West
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Bridge repairs and resurfacing
- Between Longford Road West and Shillingford Road Path
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- New seating
- Local information boards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Better drainage, with planted areas to absorb water and prevent flooding
- Between Shillingford Road Path and Hyde Road
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- Between Hyde Road to Tannery Way and Abbey Hey Lane
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing using a new coloured bitmac
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- Between Abbey Hey Lane and Gorton Railway Line
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Creating new access points
- Replacing kissing gates and barriers with bollards
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- Bridge repairs and resurfacing
- Between Gorton Railway and Ashton Old Road
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Creating new access points
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- Removing graffiti
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)
- Bridge repairs and resurfacing
- Between Ashton Old Road and Ashton Canal
- Improving existing paths and adding new ones
- Improved entry points, with features to tell you where you are on the route
- Widening access points
- Resurfacing
- Landscaping to make areas more attractive
- Local information boards
- Repairing or replacing existing steps and ramps
- Clearing and trimming vegetation
- New lighting columns, and lit bollards
- New, attractive wall art in some locations (e.g. under bridges)