Tranche 1 locations
Stockport Road junction with Dickenson Road and Stanley Grove:
Enforcement began at this location on 20 November 2023.
To keep traffic flowing in this busy district centre location, two turns are banned: right turns from Stockport Road into Dickenson Road and right turns from Stockport Road into Stanley Grove. There is also a yellow box junction to prevent queuing traffic from blocking the junction. Blocking of the junction leads to severe queues and delays throughout Longsight District Centre, affecting a key bus corridor. At this junction in the past five years there have been four collisions, resulting in persons being killed or seriously injured.
Great Ancoats Street/Oldham Road/Oldham Street:
Enforcement began at this location on 22 January 2024.
This is a key junction on the Inner Ring Road. When the yellow box junction is blocked, it can impact on journey times - especially buses that travel along Oldham Street to Piccadilly from the northeast of the city. Long queues at this junction can affect the flow of traffic, which has knock-on impact for the rest of the Ring Road and Oldham Road.
A further six locations will become enforceable over the next year, and you will be informed in advance of their start dates.
Cheetham Hill Road/Elizabeth Street
Enforcement began at this location on 19 February 2024.
The link on Cheetham Road, Elizabeth Street to Lord Street is a busy arterial route carrying 32,453 vehicles a day on average. Waiting illegal right turners reduce the effective running lanes from 2 lanes in either direction to one lane causing tail backs which affect the nearby signal junctions at Manchester Fort and Queens Road resulting in significant delays and congestion on a key bus corridor.
Kirkmanshulme Lane / Mount Road
Enforcement began at this location in February 2024.
We are enforcing against Yellow Box junction and compulsory left turn orders at this location. Blocking of this junction can cause tailbacks affecting the efficiency of the Hyde Road Kirkmanshulme Lane junction.
Ashton Old Road/Chancellor Street/Fairfield Street
Enforcement began at this location on Monday 18 March 2024.
A key link between the Mancunian Way and Great Ancoats Street. It is the busiest of the surveyed routes carrying an average of almost 44,000 vehicles per day. Blocking of lanes by illegal right turners and blocking of junctions by queuing in yellow boxes significantly reduces the capacity of this junction and the throughput of vehicles. This has a serious impact on the inner ring road as well as traffic coming into and out of the city centre using Ashton Old Road.
Palatine Road / Princess Parkway
Enforcement began at this location on Monday 13 May 2024.
We are enforcing against the blocking of the yellow box junction on Palatine Road, which prevents vehicles from Princess Parkway from exiting the slip road. This leads to tail backs on the Princess Parkway off-slip onto the main trunk road of the A5103, the main link between the City Centre and the M60, M56, M6 and Manchester Airport. This can have a major impact on the network and journey times at peak times. There have been 3 fatalities and serious injury collisions in this location in the past 6 years at this location.
M56 Junction 6 / Wilmslow Road
Enforcement began at this location on 1 June 2024.
We are enforcing banned right turn and banned U-turn traffic regulation orders at this roundabout junction. Contraventions at this junction affects traffic flows from Manchester Airport to the M56, causing queues and delays to Journey times.