The Mancunian Way: View from the top

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The views from the top of Manchester’s newest skyscraper are pretty breath-taking.

As Imogen Clyde-Smith writes, Three60 is Manchester’s first cylindrical skyscraper and will include 441 apartments all with panoramic views of the city when it’s completed next Spring.

A construction worker yesterday snapped sweeping 360 degree views across the city centre from the top of the 51-storey building, which sits beside the Mancunian Way.

On to the news. In today’s edition we’ll be discussing the ongoing row about traffic calming measures in a south Manchester suburb and why monsters have invaded the city centre. Let’s begin.

Remember when people in Levenshulme got so angry about planters blocking the roads that they knocked them over and vandalised them? Pretty extreme measures, I’m sure you’ll agree. But the so-called low traffic neighbourhoods have proved extremely divisive.

Earlier this year, the Prime Minister ordered a review of the scheme as he tried to prove he is ‘on the side of drivers’. But neighbours in Levenshulme and Burnage - home to 14 LTN streets - then said it had ‘transformed' their neighbourhood.

Now it’s the turn of residents in Withington to vent spleen as the scheme has been in place on roads in their neighbourhood since August. Nine junctions on the Hartley estate have been blocked off as part of a six month trial aimed at reducing traffic, increasing road safety and encouraging walking and cycling. But as Damon Wilkinson reports, many in the area are stridently against it.

'Draconian, divisive and