The ‘UK’s second’ CYCLOPS (Cycle Optimised Protected Signals) junction has opened in Bolton.
Following the launch of the UK’s first CYCLOPS junction in Royce Road, Manchester in July 2020, the Bolton junction is part of a wider £7.6 million scheme designed to deliver a more integrated network in Bolton town centre.
The CYCLOPS design separates people travelling on foot and by bike from motor traffic, reducing the possibility of collisions or conflict. People on foot can also get where they need to be in fewer stages and with more space to wait than most junctions.
The other CYCLOPS junctions being delivered this year in the UK are:
Plans to create low-traffic neighbourhoods in bid to stop rat-running on streets
The schemes are aiming to create quieter streets for residents to chat and for children to play, as well as making trips to schools and the shops safer
16:42, 13 JAN 2021
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An example of a low-traffic neighbourhood with planters (Image: Sustrans)
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Bae To Hire Record 1,250 Trainees Next Year In Boost For The North [Daily Mail, London]
Dec. 17 DEFENCE giant BAE Systems will create 1,250 jobs next year when it takes on a record number of trainees.
The group will hire 850 apprentices and 400 graduates more than half of which will be based in the north of England in a boost for the Government’s aim to ‘level up’ the regions.
Many will work at its hubs in Barrow, Preston and Blackburn.
BAE is taking on 200 more graduates than it did this year, and 50 more apprentices for huge projects including the Dreadnought submarines and designs for a new UK fighter jet, called Tempest.