Manchester’s First Street development has questioned the status of a cycle lane after being pressured to remove a Christmas tree from the middle of it by cyclists.
In last week’s live blog, we published a tweet from Deb, who spotted the tree being unloaded from a van at the entrance to First Street.
We naively assumed that this was only temporary, but the Manchester Evening News reports that the tree was actually left in this position.
When cyclists complained, First Street’s initial response was to tweet: “Don’t worry, this isn’t a cycle lane.”
As you can see on the StreetView image below, it certainly appears to be one.
Plenty of cyclists made similar observations (generally with a little more feeling and a more robust choice of words) and eventually First Street agreed to move it.
A large number of responses to those two tweets questioned the assertion that the tree was on “First Street land.”
First Street says it is still investigating ownership.
In any case, five days later, the tree was still there and when Manchester councillor Chris Paul questioned this, First Street replied:
The tree has now been moved.
Sort of misses the point of being able to actually breathe through my nose!
Love this. Hopefully trickle down ecomomics will mean all our clothing will have a lower impact on the environment
Being pedantic? I spent too long getting my cleats right, so Im not going to move them for wellies.
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