If you want an example of how the current economic situation is hitting retailers, take a walk along Manchester’s King Street.
The property crisis continues, with Manchester one of the cities that stands to be most severely affected (along with Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield), in part due to over-supply. And it seems to me that many of the ‘luxury’ apartments in the city centre are anything but.
Parked at a junction, on double yellow lines, in a bus lane and blocking a cycle path, on Wilmslow Road next to the Contact Theatre, at 7.30pm last night (Friday 1 August).
The driver was nowhere to be seen and the passenger was reading a celebrity magazine with an article about Britney Spears.
In my opinion the area between here and Platt Fields Park is one of the most dangerous for cyclists in the whole of Manchester.
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