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Have your say on Stockport’s future: roads and transport
by Lib Dem team on 29 August, 2017
The Lib Dem team want you to have your say on Stockport’s transport and roads over the next 20 years.
Stockport is drawing up its Local Plan. There are five different topics and we’ll be looking at one each week. The Lib Dems on Stockport Council will be putting our submission in and we want to include your views. Of course, you can also have your say directly.
The questions the Council wants to answer on homes are:
- The SEMMMS* Refresh will be looking at all aspects of transport provision in the area. What are the key issues for transport in Stockport and what do you think should be done to improve things across all types of transport use?
- We believe that new developments should contribute towards extra infrastructure to make sure they are safe and sustainable. What are the priorities for your community?
- How and where should low carbon and renewable energy development be provided in Stockport?
- Do you have any other comments about transport and other types of infrastructure in Stockport?
To help, we’ve included the Council’s briefing paper on transport. It’s 7 pages long and worth a quick read before you give your answers.
Portrait of the Cheadle Area
Over the next few weeks Stockport Council is consulting on its Local Plan. This is the first of three sets of consultations on the plan, and its important. It will shape our borough for the next twenty years: what our town and village centres look like, what jobs we have, where people live, our health, parks, green spaces and more.
You can read all the documents and have your say on any part of it here.
* SEMMMS stands for South East Manchester Multi-modal study and looks at all forms of transport across our area, including cars, trains, trams, buses, lorries, bikes and walking.
14 Comments
I’ve completed mine already but again the vexed issue for us at least of a Cheadle station needs to be prioritised.
I travelled on the train to altrincham the other week and was struck by how easy it would be to simply build a station on the TP site and schedule the train to stop. What’s so difficult about that? Forget all this malarkey about tram/train, I’ll happily catch the train and connect with the metro at Navigation RD. Let’s not over complicate it, let’s just get it done!
Alan
How many people want to travel by public transport to Altrincham? I would venture not many.
You could always use the bus – 11A I believe.
Not going to happen.
Perhaps you are right Bruce, although the ‘bus service you mention is more frequent than most and seems popular despite taking rather a long time to reach Altrincham as it goes via the congested centre of Timperley rather than the more direct route a car driver would use. The train or tram would offer a much faster option and one that would provide an easier connection to the current tram at Navigation Road, where incidentally, parking is severely restricted for anyone wishing to leave their vehicle more than a few hours. The train would also offer the possibility of travelling far beyond Altrincham.
Why would you want to deny the residents of Timerley a decent bus service just for your convenience? Some people are never satisfied despite the fact that the 11A is now faster and more direct that it used to be.
Could we persuade the cyclists that don’t use the cycle lane on Manchester road to do so and reduce the hazards to other road users. They appear to be above the law and use the road like a race track. Before we plan any more follies. A train stop in Cheadle would be great, particularly when trying to get home from a night out in Manchester or commuting to work.
Maybe we could get proper infistructure built and the shared path dug up wih two proper Cycle paths on each side of the carriage way built.
That’s what should have been done in the first place. Poor design and implementation of cycle paths are common in great Manchester and beyond.These paths are often designed by non cyclists.
If cyclists don’t use the shared path it is because it’s badly thought out.
All the Stockport cycle paths are designed by cyclists, but financial and other limitations means provision isn’t perfect.
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Importantly travel to Stockport so we’re not held to ransom by Stagecoach’s massively increasing fares.
And as has been said the bus takes forever going to Altricham and I for one would never use that option again (having used it once).
Its a no brainer,scrap the tram ready interchange in Stockport and re-open the Cheadle train line as soon as possible,also look into having priority traffic lights at Kingsway(turning right onto Kingsway).It can take up to 40mins to travel from Manchester Rd.and turn right onto Kingsway.Also stand in Cheadle village and see how bad the transport system and traffic management is.(you might need a face mask to protect you from the exhaust pollution.)
Absolutely right Alan!
The Council should lobby TfN to re-instate Cheadle railway station as a matter of priority. It would provide the simplest and quickest way to get to Stockport, Manchester, Altrincham, Chester and elsewhere. I can’t see any advantage in a tram/train project which would be more costly, more complex and provide a slower service.
If the franchisee (presently Northern) could route alternate trains from Chester to Manchester and Stalybridge, the desired ‘orbital’ service could be provided with a minimum of fuss.
The bus routes are minimal, takes ages to get to A-B, when they do turn up it’s usually not on time, increase the carbon footprint, buses are often overcrowded with some stopping at early times of the day meaning that people who regularly use this mode of transport to get to/from work, hospital appointments etc., can not adequately do so. We’re living in the 21st century here when some many other Greater Manchester district centres of very similar size have choice; bus, tram, train. Cheadle has no choice – one option only … and still has an inadequate transport policy fit only for the 1980’s!!!
Week council, week councillors with a basic lack of realistic ideas and no influence … like others have said, most other village centres had what Cheadle hasn’t got a very long time ago … changed needed soon.
Gatley station is quite handy for catching trains to Manchester. Not too far to walk from Cheadle.
People always seem to want a station right in the centre. Gatley station is at one end of Cheadle. If you built another at boundary bridge you would have one at both sides on two different railways. Plus the residents of Cheadle Heath could use it as well. Surely a station that serves two places has more chance of getting funding than a central station only serving one.