Muggers Bridge is on Manchester St in Oldham: it span’s a busy dual carriageway. It was built at great expense by our fearless leaders, apparently to keep the muggers off the streets-and I must say it was doing a good job in the first four weeks after it opened, about fifteen years ago. But sadly no pedestrians seemed to be using it any more and our poor fearless leaders were left scratching there heads wondering were it all went wrong, after paying consultants a wagon load of cash to come up with a cunning plan to stop pedestrians dicing with death by crossing the busy dual carriageway thus avoiding the muggers. The consultants said the solution was to build a fence at the side of the road so the pedestrians had to use the bridge: that way the muggings could restart. Unfortunately for our fearless leaders the pedestrians were not having any of that, so now not only have the poor pedestrians to risk death by crossing the busy dual carriageway they also have a very good chance of impaling themselves on the fence at the side of the road.