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Category: Travel Alerts

Roadworks update this weekend: Pendleton roundabout, Salford

The council has released the latest roadworks information for this weekend in Pendleton and Salford. Today, Friday 19 February, the Manchester-bound A576 Pendleton...

Double crash at Height roundabout causing delays

Police are diverting traffic away from an accident at a roundabout in Irlams o’th Height. Emergency services were called at 2.50pm to the A6 Broad Street on the...

Eccles Metrolink line stopped after tram collides with car at Exchange Quay

Services on the Eccles Metrolink line have been temporarily suspended after a tram collided with a car in Ordsall. The accident happened at around 5pm on Tuesday 16...

Lorry flees scene after colliding with Vauxhall Astra in Salford

Police are looking for a lorry driver who collided with a car in Salford and fled the scene. Officers were called to attend a traffic accident at 9.10am on the M602...

Ordsall Chord: £85m build pushes ahead after heritage row ‘to prove UK pioneers in engineering’

Rail enthusiast Pete Waterman says the Ordsall Chord bridge linking Manchester Piccadilly and Victoria stations will put the UK at the forefront of engineering for the...

M60 at standstill after J13 Worsley smash

Traffic is only just returning to normal after an earlier smash on the M60 at Junction 13 for Worsley. One lane was closed on the anti-clockwise carriageway between...

Eccles traffic at standstill: Gridlock again towards M60

Traffic is bumper to bumper on Liverpol Road heading out of Eccles towards Peel Green and the M60 roundabout at Junction 11. There are not thought to have been any...

Delays on M602, M60 after five-vehicle smash

Drivers are being warned to expect congestion and delays on main routes in and out of Salford tonight after an earlier crash on the M62. At around 2.30pm today police...

Metrolink vote to freeze ticket prices

Transport bosses have voted to hold Metrolink fares at 2014 levels in the latest Greater Manchester budget. The combined authority, which is made up of all ten Greater...

Salford traffic jam woes: 96% tell MP that journey times increased

Over 400 people who replied to a local MP’s survey on traffic delays in Salford said their daily journey time had increased due to congestion. Barbara Keeley, MP...