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The road is a pivotal part of the ring road for east–west traffic across the southern part of the city centre. The principal section of Trinity Way opened in 1987 easing congestion on Deansgate and opening a route north-west of the city centre. During 2019-2021, improvements were made to Great Ancoats Street north-east of the city centre ...
Cuts the city centre in two and runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre. It is one of the oldest thoroughfares through the city and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile long. [3] The Moon Under Water, listed in Guinness' as the largest public house in Britain. [4]
Piccadilly Gardens, a green space in the city (view towards Market Street) The city centre has variously been defined as those parts of the city within the Manchester Inner Ring Road, [24] or else the entire area within Manchester's Inner Ring Road, thereby encompassing a part of the administratively separate City of Salford, [25] and an area of Oxford Road to the south. [26]
During its design it was known as Link Road 17/7. The scheme lies over the geological West Manchester Fault. It would be the first elevated main road to be built outside London, and the UK's second aerial motorway after the Hammersmith flyover. [4] The road is 3,232 ft (985 m) long and has 28 spans of 105 ft (32 m), and two spans of 60 ft (18 m).
Spinningfields Footbridge, a new footbridge linking Spinningfields in Manchester and New Bailey in Salford. The area is dominated by commercial office developments and has been described as the "Canary Wharf of the North"; [21] [22] the Financial Times has noted, "London has Canary Wharf and Paris has La Défense, Manchester has its own modern financial centre in the form of Spinningfields". [23]
Deansgate is a main road (part of the A56) through Manchester City Centre, England. It runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile in length. [1]
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1849 Map of Oxford Street (Whitworth Street was built 50 years later replacing Bond Street and Whitworth Street West follows the line of Gloucester Street) [2]Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road and Oxford Street are part of an 18th-century route from Manchester to Oxford, and from there to Southampton, which can be traced on modern maps by locating roads which are called (or used to be called) the A34.