Improvements to a pedestrian tunnel linking communities either side of the M60 will form part of a massive project to upgrade the Simister Island motorway interchange.

Campaigners say the Haweswater underpass, which links the Hillock estate, in the Besses area of Whitefield to Prestwich ‘has the potential to provide a green way for children to walk and cycle to schools’.

It’s estimated around 70 people, mostly children, currently pass through the ‘tunnel’ to get to school each day.

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But the underpass has no paved surface or lighting, is strewn with litter and covered in graffiti and remains extremely muddy, even during one the driest springs and summers on

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