Manchester Blog

Well actually they’re not ace at all, they’re a severe irritant. I say this because I’ve been clocked by one doing 39 in a 30mph zone. The thing about this road (Blackley New Road) is that it doesn’t have permanent speed cameras on. But it does, every now and then, have a camera in a [...]

After the farce of a vast array of bollards preventing happy shoppers vacating Sainsbury’s on Saturday they’re back! As I reported before the leak is still on Middleton Road. So two diggers have been sent in to dig a hole to find where the leak is. I’m just hoping they don’t go straight through one [...]

Hollingworth Lake has been going a long time and has been used since before motor cars were the normal mode of transport for most people. And whilst the beach is not particularly enormous it’s a great lake to tootle over to for a relaxing couple of hours. Be warned that you pay for parking before [...]

I was minding my own business on the M60 car park the other day when I noticed a tiny car zip by in the middle lane. The thing that caught my attention was that it had a large pole stuck vertically up on the roof to which were attached what looked like 4 cameras. Then [...]

We live 3 minutes from the M60 and another 2 minutes from there to the M62 and M66. So we’re always the first to know whether there’s a problem on the motorway. What normally happens is that we see a sudden influx of cars crawling slowly past our door. Take today… I’d not listened to [...]

Over the last few weeks as I’ve been going around the M60 I’ve noticed vehicles and men with theodolites measuring roads and roundabouts and bridges around chunks of the M60. More specifically I’ve noticed them measuring the Three Arrows roundabout (the M60 Middleton exit) the carriageways past that roundabout near the intersection with the M62/M60 [...]