Kingsway is a dual carriageway in Greater Manchester, England, which runs from Levenshulme to Cheadle. It is approximately 7.3 mi (11.7 km) long and is a link road between the city centre and the southern suburbs of Greater Manchester, forming part of the A34. Kingsway was built in the late 1920s between Levenshulme and Parrs Wood, and was originally designed as a combined road and tram route. The tram tracks were eventually removed and the road was later extended to bypass Cheadle and join onto the M60 motorway.
Kingsway dual carriageway as it passes through Cheadle
A 1930s photograph of Kingsway in Burnage with a Corporation Tram travelling on the central reservation
Kingsway as it appears today, with a grassed central reservation
1914 illustration of Brodie's dual carriageway layout with a central segregated tram track in Liverpool, which informed the layout of Kingsway
The A34 is a major road in England. It runs from the A33 and M3 at Winchester in Hampshire, to the A6 and A6042 in Salford, close to Manchester City Centre. It forms a large part of the major trunk route from Southampton, via Oxford, to Birmingham, The Potteries and Manchester. For most of its length, it forms part of the former Winchester–Preston Trunk Road. Improvements to the section of road forming the Newbury Bypass around Newbury were the scene of significant direct action environmental protests in the 1990s. It is 151 miles (243 km) long.
Newbury bypass, part of the A34 near Donnington
A34 Melrose Way–Alderley Edge bypass
The A34 looking North towards Didcot, in Oxfordshire, with the now demolished Didcot power station cooling towers visible
Kingsway in Manchester where the A34 nears the end of its route
