Requests for Cycle Lanes/Routes
Tameside MBC has a rolling programme aimed at improving facilities for cycle users across the borough.
Most cycle lanes are provided on an "advisory" basis. This means that motorists may also enter them but should try to avoid doing so. Some lanes, however, are mandatory which means that they are for cyclists only and these require a traffic regulation order and it is an offence for other traffic to enter. Within Tameside, cyclists can also use bus lanes.
The Council installs signs to regulate traffic and to provide warnings to drivers of hazards ahead.
The signs that may be used on the public highway are controlled by government regulations, covering the designs of the signs, where they can be used and whether they must be illuminated.
The Council is frequently asked to install additional signs showing that there is a 30mph speed limit in residential roads. Under current regulations, however, it is not permitted to provide repeater 30mph signs in roads with streetlights.
Drivers are expected to be familiar with the Highway Code 
which states that the presence of streetlights not more than 185m apart indicates the existence of a 30mph speed limit, unless signs show a different limit.
The Council will provide direction signs under certain circumstances to destinations off the public highway, which strangers to the area may visit regularly.