Now, somewhere I have a complete collection of press cuttings about Manchester's new road scheme, which resulted in huge rush hour congestion on Oxford Street and Road in 1938.
It was a bold plan which was simply called Manchester's No 9 Traffic scheme.
And it was a one way system that "included Oxford Street, a part of Oxford Road, and Princess Street"*
It had been in operation for eight days, including two Sundays before "unprecedented congestion of trams in Oxford Street in the morning and the delays later in the day in Princess Street and Grovesnor Street showed showed the necessity for alterations to the system".
Now the picture has no date, so it may have been taken during the road traffic scheme or was just a tram jam in the rush hour at some other time in the 1930s.
Location Oxford Road
Picture; Oxford Road, circa 1939, from the collection of Allan Brown
*Manchester's One Way Traffic Scheme, The Manchester Guardian, June 13th, 1938
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| Tram Jam, 1938 |
And it was a one way system that "included Oxford Street, a part of Oxford Road, and Princess Street"*
It had been in operation for eight days, including two Sundays before "unprecedented congestion of trams in Oxford Street in the morning and the delays later in the day in Princess Street and Grovesnor Street showed showed the necessity for alterations to the system".
Now the picture has no date, so it may have been taken during the road traffic scheme or was just a tram jam in the rush hour at some other time in the 1930s.
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| Manchester's number 9 traffic scheme, 1938 |
Location Oxford Road
Picture; Oxford Road, circa 1939, from the collection of Allan Brown
*Manchester's One Way Traffic Scheme, The Manchester Guardian, June 13th, 1938
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