Manchester Road Cycleway Safety

We have been working with Cheshire East Council on their plans to improve the Manchester Road Cycleway with the production of a new Active Travel Route that will be designed to make the route safer and easier with a number of new improvements.

Recently we have increased our pressure on Cheshire East around this project due to the sad death of Emma Smallwood on a stretch of Manchester Road near the boundary of Wilmslow and Handforth – a location where another person was killed seven years ago. This project has been stalled for some time, and with the growing data showing the safety issues around painted and unprotected cycleways, we feel that we needed to push harder. As such, we have published this open letter –

An open letter from CycleWilmslow

Donations are used to help with printing ride guide map leaflets, running occasional group rides, getting PPE for our bramble bashes, and more!