{"id":654306,"date":"2025-12-25T15:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:36:27","slug":"christmas-day-bedlam-at-hectic-greater-manchester-junction-as-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654306\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day ‘bedlam’ at hectic Greater Manchester junction as warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motorists are being urged to take care<\/p>\n

14:02, 25 Dec 2025Updated 14:05, 25 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"TrafficTraffic at the junction this afternoon(Image: Coun James Palmer)<\/p>\n

Christmas<\/a> Day drivers have been warned of ‘absolute bedlam’ at an often-hectic junction. All traffic lights are out at the crossroads in the heart of Hindley<\/a> town centre, in Wigan<\/a> borough, this afternoon (December 25).<\/p>\n

The issue is affecting the junction where the A58 at Liverpool Road and Market Street<\/a>, and the A577 at Atherton Road and Wigan Road meet. Google traffic data shows congestion is building at the crossroads, which is usually a notorious traffic hotspot.<\/p>\n

Councillor James Palmer, who represents Hindley Green on Wigan council, has issued a warning to motorists on Facebook this afternoon. He also shared footage from the road, showing cars approaching the junction and taking turns to manoeuvre.<\/p>\n

Coun Palmer wrote: “The four way lights at Market Street, Atherton Road at The Bird I’th Hand are not working from all directions. I have made GMP aware who have just confirmed that [an] engineer is on route.<\/p>\n

“It’s absolute bedlam so please take extra care when approaching the junction! Merry Christmas.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists are being urged to take care 14:02, 25 Dec 2025Updated 14:05, 25 Dec 2025 Traffic at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,11948,2465,760,16,15,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-654306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-hindley","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-traffic-and-travel","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115780950474140995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654306","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=654306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}