{"id":264828,"date":"2025-07-14T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264828\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:51:12","slug":"the-massive-headache-that-will-not-go-away-in-chorlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264828\/","title":{"rendered":"The massive headache that will not go away in Chorlton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fed up south Manchester residents are calling for changeA crashed car near the junction of Wilbraham Road\/St Werburgh’s Road(Image: Wahid Akhtar)<\/p>\n

Fed-up neighbours in south Manchester have started a petition calling on the council to take action at a \u2018racetrack\u2019 junction.<\/p>\n

People living near the junction of St Werbergh\u2019s Road and Wilbraham Road in Chorlton<\/a> say accidents frequently take place at the crossroads, with John Bamford even recording incidents last year<\/a>. He noted down 16 collisions in nine months, or nearly one every fortnight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilbraham Road has always been a speedy little thing,\u201d said John, who\u2019s lived near the junction since 1988. \u201cSt Werburgh\u2019s Road to Wilbraham Road to Mauldeth Road is a rat run to get on to Princess Parkway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a woman in one of the flats across the road who says they treat Wilbraham Road like a racetrack. She has raised with the council but nothing has been done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both John and neighbour Wahid Akhtar told the Local Democracy Reporting Service last autumn crashes usually occur when \u2018people want to come down St Werburgh\u2019s and turn right\u2019 and \u2018they watch the right but get traffic coming from the left\u2019.<\/p>\n

Now, another resident has started a petition calling on Manchester council to take action.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, the undersigned, petition the council to put in three more sets of traffic lights on all the roads at that junction,\u201d said the petition, created by Daisy Brazenell.<\/p>\n

(Image: Wahid Akhtar)<\/p>\n

In the petition, Ms Brazenell said a \u2018crash\u2019 occurred on June 25. She added: \u201cIf you can prevent these crashes, why wouldn’t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously, the LDRS contacted the council to see if it will install traffic lights in the area, but a spokesperson did not give a definitive answer.<\/p>\n

They did however say \u2018all reports of incidents\u2019 were \u2018taken seriously\u2019, but funding needed to be spent \u2018based on potential risk\u2019.<\/p>\n

The council’s statement in full added: “While all reports of incidents on our road network are taken seriously, the Council has to prioritise areas of spending based on priority and potential risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cDecisions around new infrastructure spending must be made based on where they are needed most, and where their implementation has the best chance to reduce accident or injury.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fed up south Manchester residents are calling for changeA crashed car near the junction of Wilbraham Road\/St Werburgh’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,8832,393,4884,2465,8828,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-264828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chorlton","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-council","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114852861437963124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}