Major permanent changes to Oxford Road from this week
07 Jun 2016
Bus priority package goes live from Thursday 9 June
As previously reported on StaffNet, Transport for Greater Manchester, in partnership with Manchester City Council, is implementing one of the largest investments into Manchester city centre’s bus network in decades.
The upcoming change to Oxford Road that will permanently alter the way traffic accesses the corridor starts this Thursday (9 June).
From this date drivers heading into the city on Oxford Road will be unable to travel past Hathersage Road between 6am and 9pm, 7 days-a-week, and will instead need to reroute, by turning right on to Hathersage Road before continuing their journey along Upper Brook Street.
To accommodate the permanent changes to Oxford Road, Upper Brook Street has been improved to provide drivers with an alternative route. Local access to Oxford Road will be maintained from adjoining roads and signage in place to help everyone navigate the area.
Oxford Road will ultimately become a bus, hackney carriage, emergency vehicle and cycle only route between Hathersage Road and Grosvenor Street (between 6am and 9pm, 7 days a week). As work advances so too will the rollout of further changes to access for general traffic. Both TfGM and Manchester City Council will continue to communicate these prior to their introduction.
The work on Oxford Road marks a major landmark in the progress of the transformational Grow project. Grow will see more than £1 billion invested into city centre infrastructure improvements by 2017, including the Metrolink Second City Crossing, bus priority measures, six new and better cycle routes into the city centre and major rail improvements.
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