Quality Bus Corridors

Following the approval by Government of the broad range of proposals contained in the M60JETTS study a consultation exercise [jettsqbc] was commissioned by Government Office for the North West in 2003.

This was to consult on a number of improvements to improve journeys for all travellers (including pedestrians, cyclists, public transport users and car drivers). One of these improvements was to introduce Quality Bus Corridors (QBCs) [gmpte+1278538].A Quality Bus Corridor is an important route along which a variety of improvements are introduced to make travel by bus more attractive.

The aim of a QBC is to encourage more people to use buses by improving service reliability and journey times, enhancing the bus stop environment, improving the quality of passenger information, and providing better pedestrian access to bus stops.

The improvements could also provide better facilities fro pedestrians and cyclists to make walking and cycling safer. Car users could benefit from more people choosing to use public transport and local businesses could benefit from better parking and servicing facilities for their customers.

The term QBC has been modified in some places to be a Quality Transport Corridor to avoid emphasising the impression that the only aspects of the routes is to favour public transport functioning.

The map below shows the proposed Boothstown to Eccles Bus Station corridor. The corridor would start at the junction of Chaddock Lane with the A580 passing through Boothstown before running along Leigh Road, a semi-rural road linking to Worsley brow at junction 13 of the M60 (Worsley Court House). The corridor then passes through Worsley Village and Monton District Centre ending at Eccles Bus Station.

A further part of the QBC network is proposed from Moses Gate, Farnworth to Walkden and on to Worsley Brow.