Chris5156 wrote:Looks fugly as anything to me - if you're going to make people swerve all over the road with build outs (which, incidentally, are in different colours and styles to the existing paving which appears to have been left as-is) then design them properly so you don't then surround them with wobbly hatching.
I completely agree - this is... was a major arterial route that took most of the traffic heading out towards the A580, M60 and western Salford. And its been slaughtered. This is just a hodge-podge of a mess that is potentially very dangerous with all the swerving that is needed.
Not to mention the bright yellow bollards everywhere.
The bollards just look like eyesores - putting more contemporary designs would be more suited.
Bryn666 wrote:The existing single carriageway on Chapel Street is getting funky paving by the looks of it, which means I suspect a weight limit will be imposed before too long in order to prevent the whole thing sinking and looking crap itself.
Look carefully - on the westbound side is a line of white blocks that is two blocks wide. There using these to mark out the bus lane. Salford City Council would be insane to put a weight limit on it due to the number of buses that use it (40+ per hour, plus numerous NatEx and Megabus routes).
I do agree the use of blocks is a bad idea - my experience of bus stations locally shows this, as every one had brick surfacing that has had to be replaced by concrete due to the amount of simking that has occurred. It does look nice though, even if the rest of the area currently looks like the Apocalipse has struck!
I can't help but feel that the best idea would have been to reduce the Crescent to S4 (2 all purpose + 2 bus) and widen the footways instead.
Although part of Crescent would need to be dual due to the part of the eastbound carriageway that is on a bridge.
The idea of the Crescent being changed was to make it safer for students. I've never heard of an accident here involving pedestrians. But the scheme has been done wrong - it should have been done more like Chapel Street, with straighter lines and a wider pavement. There is a lot of pedestrian movement along the Crescent due to the campus on Adelphi Street, although this will vastly reduce when most of the departments based there move to MediaCity.
IMO, a better idea would be to make the road D2 (1 AP + 1 bus each way), with a wider central reservation and wider pavements. The speed limit could have been reduced to 30mph instead of the ludicrous 20mph, and a couple of raised crossings introduced outside the university itself. Once the Adelphi campus closes, then 99% of pedestrian flow will be between the university and the bus stops immediately outside.
Incidentally, Albion Way is now 3 lanes southbound towards the Liverpool Road signals - as Liverpool Road is massively wide, could this not be repainted as S4 to relieve pressure on Regent Road? It runs past run down industrial units so no residential properties should be adversely affected.
Nope, its only wide enough for three lanes. Tidal flow, anybody?
irrelevant wrote:What seems much more confusing for most drivers is the changes to the eastbound A6 as it approaches the Albion Way turnoff. Previously, the bus lane ended and turned into a left filter for Albion way, and L2 turned into a bus lane on the A6 with right-kick arrows in advance of it, lanes 3 & 4 carried on straight through. Now, we are getting bus gate lights in advance of the junction, with lanes 2 & 3 then being sent down Albion way, and only lane 4 being marked to go straight on, with the bus lane reappearing at the diverge. I'm seeing lots of traffic in lanes 2 and 3 wanting the A6 getting caught out and having to dart across to get there.
It's even caught me out!
