“I just do this to get by, mate,” the man on Pin Mill Brow explained. He limped, leaving a crutch by a railing, going to the sixth car in the queue. “I’ve been here since Covid happened,” he added, before asking to be left alone.
The sight of men asking for 'help' from queues of traffic will not be anything new to the city’s commuters. As Manchester — and our charities, local government agencies, and good Samaritans — battles its homelessness problem, there’s a feeling that begging at traffic lights has risen.
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