More Stockport roadworks off M60 as Relief road delayed again

by Lib Dem team on 15 February, 2018

The Manchester Evening News is reporting that roadworks at the pyramid junction of the M60 will cause more delays over the coming months:

Contractors started a month of improvements to junction one at Stockport Pyramid on Monday.

The work involves the closure of one lane of Hollywood Way northbound, which runs past the Pyramid from Yew Street to the roundabout.

The work is expected to be completed by March 12 and throughout this time the northbound exit of Yew Street to the Pyramid Roundabout will only operate as a single lane.

After months of promises that the A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road was still on target to open in the Spring, the Council are now saying it will be late summer. Give the delays so far, it wouldn’t be surprising if that date slipped further.

“The relief road is running nearly a year late and we now have roadworks on both the east and west sides of Stockport,” said Cllr Iain Roberts. “Labour councillors are just telling local people to put up with it all.”

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  1. Roy says:

    I only h@ve one comment
    “Finish the road works that are already being done before you start any more”

    • David Thornton says:

      The quality of resurfacing is very poor in this country. After just a couple of years potholes appear in surfaces that have been repaired or re surfaced. I understand that French and German roads are sealed after being tarmaced thus giving a more robust road surface and more longevity, but I assume that the extra cost is a factor in the U.K. Perhaps somebody can confirm that.

  2. Alan says:

    It’s only a factor if we accept work done on the cheap that is poorly managed – or not at all – symptomatic of the country I’m afraid

  3. David Johnson says:

    Trains run steel wheels on steel surfaces, cars run rubber wheels on tarmac so it is not the vehicle but – as David Thornton says – but the road material which fails and fails very much more often as traffic density increases. The cost is not only increasing from repairs but from the traffic delays caused by diversions also putting more strain on the diverted routes and hence even more repairs. The answer is obvious.

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