People on the street: How do roadworks affect Manchester?

With this being the biggest week in the UK for roadworks, we’ve hit the streets of Manchester to find out how much they impact people.

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00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World and I'm out in Manchester today asking people about roadworks.

00:04This is the UK's biggest ever week for roadworks and we want to know how it's impacting people

00:08getting to and from work. No not really I'm Egyptian I know the roads from Egypt compared

00:13to here so like obviously even if they're in a bad state they get fixed a lot quicker so

00:19no I'm fine with the roads. Fair enough. And all I see is roadworks everywhere so

00:24here I couldn't tell you back home I think that I'm from Devon way so they're kind of

00:29they're doing better with the potholes but you still drive for quite a few roads where your car

00:33is sideways. I don't know I recently I get the bus in from Gorton every day and they were redoing

00:39the tram near Piccadilly and that like really for a whole month messed up me getting to like work it

00:45took so much longer I had to walk past Piccadilly to get to the bus stop so that was a bit annoying.

00:50I do know like a few people have complained about you know trains being delayed or buses

00:56being late or just maybe like transportation being cancelled in general.