The sound of honking horns are ringing in my ears, taxi drivers are cutting up skirting the pavement and I've been stuck at the same set of traffic lights for four consecutive green lights without being able to budge an inch.

This is not rush hour in Manchester city centre - it's just a normal, mid-week afternoon at 3.30pm. But the queues and stationary traffic is already ridiculous.

Those familiar with Manchester can probably guess exactly where I am - yep I'm stuck on Deansgate, trying to navigate my way out of the city centre. My journey began at the car park behind Kendals and required me to get down to the Mancunian Way.

It's a route of around 1,000 yards, or half a mile. But as I'm about to find out, I'll navigate that distance at a snail's pace.

There has been congestion on this section of road, and the surrounding routes like Quay Street, for months now. It has become Manchester's chaos corridor.

It's all part of Manchester Council's plan to turn Deansgate into a one-way southbound route for motorists from the Kendals junction. The remaining carriageway has been opened up for the city's keen cyclists, or as I like to call it, the Deliveroo superhighway.

The scheme caused utter car chaos over the Christmas period, as the MEN reported on at the time, with festive events in the city being partially blamed for the congestion. But as we reported on Friday, the huge queues are still continuing into the new year much to the dismay of residents and businesses.

I got to experience it for myself on Thursday afternoon, even though I thought I'd be safely out of any kind of traffic jam starting my car just before 3.30pm from King Street West. I sail through the first crossroads at John Dalton Street without much of a hold up, but then the wait starts. And I wait and wait.

I finally crawl down towards the crossroads at Quay Street and Peter Street and that's........

© Manchester Evening News