Graham reports back from Friends of Scholes Park meeting
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by Lib Dem Team on 22 August, 2016
Transport for Greater Manchester are currently consulting on their 2040 Strategy – looking at the big changes that should be made over the next 25 years.
Nothing is guaranteed, but we certainly won’t get the big ticket items unless we campaign for them hard.
We have four big items for Cheadle and Gatley, and we want to know what else you think should be on the list.
Our items are:
What else should we be saying?
You can have your own say on the TfGM strategy of course – just go here.
9 Comments
Maybe leave the planning and design of roads, junctions and cycle lanes etc to the users and not the so called professionals? I’d be happy to volunteer.
So would I – I have cycled all my life and would be prepared to offer advice or be involved in some capacity
Please do – the Cycle User Group meets regularly at the Town Hall, is open to all, and has been involved in every cycling proposal.
Well said Robert
Iain,
I think you have identified the key concerns. An underpass whilst costing the most, is also the best solution and would allow on/off ramps with quite a narrow footprint.
Are there major noise implications with this?
Train? It’s all about political will IMO. Build a station, get the train to stop seems an easy solution and is a quick fix.
Are new bus routes subject to bus company agreement without regulation?
A34 surgery is top of my list – especially since it is clear that yet more housing will be poured into East Cheshire fields. If the Cheadle Road/Kingsway underpass is considered let it be the A34 that is sunk not Cheadle Road. Even worse would be an A34 overpass spreading even more noise around. Best solution would be diversion of N/S traffic onto new bypass and away from Cheadle & Gatley ( I can dream).
Reinstatement of Cheadle LNW (and possibly Gatley/Northenden) railway station(s) on the Altrincham – Stockport line seems the most simple and cost effective way to improve public transport for Cheadle and Gatley. It seems incredible that local passenger trains have been returned to this line for 10 years now, through areas of high density population, without stopping. TfN should look at this as a priority.
Forget the tram – it would just increase complexity and costs for no advantage.
A few years back (20/25) there actually was a bus route through Gatley and the lakes estate which terminated somewhere in Heald Green. Despite a lot of opposition (people did not want buses through the estate) to it at the time but it was still introduced. It didn’t last long though – no profit in it as far as I can Remember as it was hardly used.
That’s true. Of course, the age profile of people on the estate has changed a lot since then and it’s a real problem that a lot of people are nearly a mile from a bus stop or train station, so important to look at it again. A lot can change in a quarter century.