£3m to be spent on these Salford roads to improve cycling and walking

More than £3 million is to be spent on roads in Salford to improve safety and enhance cycling and walking schemes during the next 12 months.

The Department of Transport (DfT) has allocated cash for highway maintenance to all 10 authorities in Greater Manchester, with Salford getting £3.143m.

Nearly £2.5m has immediately been set aside for a number of schemes, agreed by councillors at Salford’s Property/Regeneration Briefing.

They include:

• Improvements to the junction of the A580 (East Lancs Road) and Mosley Common Road, providing a pedestrian crossing (£300,000).

• A new crossing at the Manchester Road West (A6) near the junction of Stocksfield Drive, providing better access to Peel Park (£150,000).

• Changes to signals to promote safer, “more inclusive” crossing facilities at three junctions – A6/A 575, A575/New Ellesmere Approach and A575 crossing near Cecil Street – (£30,000).

• Refurbishment of Palatine Bridge which carries Chapel Street over the River Irwell at the boundary between Salford and Manchester (£400,000).

• Installation of monitoring of the “Grey Irwell” river wall which supports the Salford bank towpath along the River Irwell between Woden Street (£100,000).

• Repairs to a retaining wall at Starkie Street, off Greenleach Lane (£100,000).

• A scheme to improve the Weaste Lane/Liverpool Street junction to boost safety for cyclists (£750,000).

• Numerous improvements to dropped kerbs to enable easier road crossings across Salford (£75,000).