A town’s central shopping street is to receive a £2.3m investment to ‘reduce the dominance of traffic’ and make it safer.
Market Street in Westhoughton is undergo public realm changes later this year which Bolton Council said will create ‘a main road that makes it easier for pedestrians and cyclists to use’, causes the ‘slowing down of car borne traffic’ and has the potential to link the cycle network through the town centre and into Central Park.
Ideas to partially or fully pedestrianise Market Street did not gain any support during a previous public consultation on the plans. The work is set to begin in July or early August this year with completion on site in March or April 2023.
