News on #SafeStreetsSaveLives

The Councils Highways Team has been working closely with the Town Centre Recovery Team to implement a network of footway widenings across Bolton town centre. We have reallocated road space on Newport Street, Knowsley Street and Blackhorse Street as key corridors into the town centre and to support the reopening of shops and the market. This is supported by footpath signing reminding town centre users to keep a safe distance of 2m apart.

The Bolton Safe Streets Save Lives consultation identified pop-up cycle lanes across the borough’s key trafficked corridors, 88 model filters to create safe streets, safer town and district centres through the implementation of 20mph speed limits, support for school streets and improved pedestrian crossing facilities.

The Council has been working with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to submit a bid to Tranche 1 funding as part of the Governments Emergency Active Travel Fund. Bolton Council has initially focused on delivering two key traffic corridors of A673 Chorley New Road and the A6 and has put forward 12 modal filter schemes to take account of your priorities and to enable elements of Bee Network schemes to be delivered early. An announcement on Tranche 1 funding is anticipated this week.

The Council will continue working through the additional schemes you proposed in order to submit a bid as part of the Tranche 2 Emergency Active Travel Fund anticipated later this month/early July.

We are now reopening the consultation to enable you to provide more comments on safe cycle and walking measures in support of those returning to work, the reopening of shops and children starting to go back to school. We would also like to hear from you as to how well our temporary measures are working. Please comment and share on social media to ensure we get a clear picture of what our community wants.