The new cycling roundabout in Salford A ‘first-of-its-kind’ roundabout for cyclists has opened in Salford . It has been built as part of Salford City Council’s biggest ever road improvement scheme that has seen huge changes made to Trafford Road.
Every junction along both sides of the mile-long road has been upgraded and a mile of segregated cycle track has also been introduced as part of a package of measures to encourage more cycling along with new crossings and signals.
The new roundabout sits at the junction of existing segregated cycle lanes in Trafford Road, Broadway and Rowland Street. The council say it has been developed after "extensive consultation with members of the public, cyclists and groups representing people with a wide range of disabilities and visual impairment" in order to "provide the safest crossing solution".
However cyclist Hamish Gray, who runs the campaigning group Walk Ride Central Salford, is not convinced. He tweeted: " First, the pedestrian experience here is hugely compromised. You have to cross into a ring of fire to exit. Every desire line is away from the path you are supposed to take.
"Similarly, the cycle desire line is also the opposite to what’s designed. You want to either cut across the opposite lane or go across the middle. These both leave peds and cycles in conflict.
"For these reasons, there is actually more conflict here than if the design was left to the users via shared space. An ideological desire to keep peds and cycles separate has blinkered the […]
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