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Health, Safety and the Environment in Manchester 

Visitors will find the environment in Manchester is great with no extreme high temperature or extreme cold but plenty of rain which makes it always fresh. Manchester has no heavy industry, which is bad for people want to work in this field but good for the visitors' environment. 

Manchester surrounded by countryside and when you travel in any direction it is not more than 15 to 20 minutes before you find yourself in the countryside although some directions are better than the others.

Red Tree

The other good thing about Manchester is the water and the visitors will find it pleasant and it is of a very good quality, natural and rich in minerals as it is not purified or proceed to be drinkable water. Some of Manchester visitors will find out that they can drink water straight from the taps instead of the bottled water which they used to all their life. Manchester water is supplied from the lakes in the Lake District north of Manchester and that is why it is arguably good and better water quality than the one in other cities in England and taste better than other cities including the capital, London.

LD Photo !!!

However, Manchester has two issues with the environment, which are like the one often seen in many big cities:

First , when one walk in town you pass areas where the freshness of Manchester disappears and the smell of air fluctuates between the smell of wee and weed and you do not know which one to prefer although most people we walked with when the subject brought would prefer the latter, however, the police presence is more obvious to tackle the drugs problems in the city and probably breathing of fresh air will cover the whole town again.

The second is the congestion in and around the city which is the aim of Manchester mayor now to solve as this is a very serious problem to the city and hope the mayor Mr Andy Burnham will manage to solve as he is working hard to tackle it. 

From our recent experience of the congestion, the first was when we took visitors to Liverpool to spend the day there and when we came back it took us two hours and 45 minutes to drive from Albert docks to Oxford Road in Manchester city centre , which usually takes around an hour so in the hour and 45 to 2 hours we were polluting the environment between A602 and the city centre where the car running all the time to move a few metres now and then. One of the visitors commented, what will happen when all these cranes down and the buildings occupied !!!! In fact, one of the visitors decided to walk it after spending a good time in the car and got to the city before us.

The second was on a Saturday afternoon, we were meeting people in Home Bar and they were travelling from wills low and it took them about 3 hours to get to us. They kept phoning to apologise and to update us of no change for them being stuck in a bad traffic, which got worse when they reached the Mancunian way.

No one knows when this problem to be solved but if you have to travel by car, please make sure that you have a lot of fuel in the tank. We think it is very bad for the environment this congestion and we hope the mayor will succeed to solve otherwise and more of people will be suffering and stuck in this when all the cranes down as the visitors said and the situation  will be worse and Manchester will not be attractive to visitors or people work in it as reported in the Manchester Evening News , the newspaper that knows Manchester better than anyone else and we should listen to their views and their readers and consider them.

MEN reported that people turning down jobs for 50 k salary, which is about nearly twice the average national salary because of the congestion

 

 

People are 'turning down £50,000 jobs' to avoid having to drive into Manchester

 

Also, we think traffic jam and continues congestion will cause so many problems to people which is obviously clear and we not going to elaborate on it but we invite anyone who can to send their input.

 

How safe is Manchester?

If you take the view of someone living in Manchester for a very long time it's a (pretty ) safe city with a few (notable ) exceptions because Manchester is not a Disney Land it real and big city that attracts all sort of people and from all walks of life. Some here in Manchester just to steal and pickpocketing from Manchester visitors or new students and they are active mostly in holiday seasons and beginning of the study year in the universities where they finish a lot of preys and there journey and travel money worthwhile to spend. There are others more serious crimes, you may read about in Manchester but this mostly not directly directed to visitors apart from competing may be to sell the visitors drugs.

To be safe in Manchester and in fact in any big city, don't attract criminals by 

Flashing money, jewellery and expensive items.

Walking in dark streets, especially alone.

Having your wallet or purse easily reachable to the gangs that targeting you as tourists or newcomers and you still looking around to find places of interest or to eat and you forget your belongings and sometimes not aware what happened to them till late. You must remember that you have to be lucky all the time not to have your belongings stolen and they only have to be lucky once. Do make them lucky and spoil your holiday.

 

Food Safety

The last thing you want to happen to you when you get to your holiday distension is getting food poison when you buy takeaway or eat in a restaurant that have bad hygiene reputation because you new to the area and don't know the good places to eat and where, so before ordering your takeaway or go to restaurants to eat check the place hygiene reputation till you find your favourite places and know where to eat or order your food from . 

The hygiene ratings in Manchester are as follows. 

5 = Very Good.

4 = good.

3 = generally satisfactory.

2 = improvement necessary.

1 = major improvement necessary.

0 = urgent improvement necessary.

 Check the hygiene rating before you order or buy your food here