For five years, residents of a city centre community have campaigned for action to stop speeding drivers using a street as a rat-run. They suggested no entry road markings at one end, road bumps, and even bollards, so that it was accessible for cyclists only.
Great Marlborough Street, off Whitworth Street, in Manchester, has a 150-place nursery, and about 2,500 people live in the surrounding Macintosh Village area.
After a lengthy campaign, Manchester city council found the budget to do the work. But what they got for £47,000 has not impressed the locals - who claim it has done nothing to stop drivers hurtling through at more than 45mph going the wrong way down a one-way street.
