It's 8.20am on a Thursday morning. Students are walking, cars are queueing and parents are panicking as the lights turn green at the junction from 'hell'.
Surrounded by five schools, local residents say this turning by Chorlton Park is 'chaos' every morning, afternoon and on match days at Old Trafford. Cars are bumper-to-bumper on Nell Lane where the roadway meets Mauldeth Road West - made up of four lanes of traffic with trams travelling right through the middle.
Chorlton High School, Hough End Hall Academy and Loreto High School are all on Nell Lane, right next to the junction, alongside a Sure Start children's centre which shares the same narrow road. Meanwhile, Chorlton Primary School and CHS South are both located on the busy dual carriageway, less than 1km apart.
