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Wow that’s spectacularly poor. Besides fares unlikely to be much of an immediate step-change with Bee Network Rail either?
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Wow that’s spectacularly poor. Besides fares unlikely to be much of an immediate step-change with Bee Network Rail either?
Right, and this could be seen to tick a lot of their current unlocking growth, rebalancing economy, supporting house building, war on newts/bats/snails boxes…
I keep thinking how the A555 never happened for decades. Then suddenly it actually happened.
I keep thinking how the A555 never happened for decades. Then suddenly it actually happened.
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Right, and this could be seen to tick a lot of their current unlocking growth, rebalancing economy, supporting house building, war on newts/bats/snails boxes…
I keep thinking how the A555 never happened for decades. Then suddenly it actually happened.
I keep thinking how the A555 never happened for decades. Then suddenly it actually happened.
I don’t know if they were the same people but looking into this I found the campaigner behind Goyt Valley SOS is sadly no longer with us. Stockport owes them one to continue the fight!
Graham Trickey obituary
Other lives: Determined leader of political and environmental campaigns
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I don’t know if they were the same people but looking into this I found the campaigner behind Goyt Valley SOS is sadly no longer with us. Stockport owes them one to continue the fight!
And sorry this isn’t the fun Peak District cycling content you signed up for! But hopefully the relevance and implications are obvious.
These roads would cost £1bn. Any money and time spent furthering them could be spent on genuine solutions to reduce private car need and enable active lives.
These roads would cost £1bn. Any money and time spent furthering them could be spent on genuine solutions to reduce private car need and enable active lives.
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
And sorry this isn’t the fun Peak District cycling content you signed up for! But hopefully the relevance and implications are obvious.
These roads would cost £1bn. Any money and time spent furthering them could be spent on genuine solutions to reduce private car need and enable active lives.
These roads would cost £1bn. Any money and time spent furthering them could be spent on genuine solutions to reduce private car need and enable active lives.
*Statements directly lifted from the A6 Corridor Study of ten years ago (p194). www.highpeak.gov.uk/media/1620/M...
It’s a fun read (trust me) that proposes loads of other sensible interventions while discounting a bypass idea. Let’s see how many have been achieved since… (yet bypass talk returns!)
It’s a fun read (trust me) that proposes loads of other sensible interventions while discounting a bypass idea. Let’s see how many have been achieved since… (yet bypass talk returns!)
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
*Statements directly lifted from the A6 Corridor Study of ten years ago (p194). www.highpeak.gov.uk/media/1620/M...
It’s a fun read (trust me) that proposes loads of other sensible interventions while discounting a bypass idea. Let’s see how many have been achieved since… (yet bypass talk returns!)
It’s a fun read (trust me) that proposes loads of other sensible interventions while discounting a bypass idea. Let’s see how many have been achieved since… (yet bypass talk returns!)
Whoever put ‘new roads over Stockport’s greenbelt’ on their Christmas list, if they get adopted as part of the TfGM plan it will be Andy Burnham endorsing the idea. Not a great look at this point in his political career.
Let’s not forget how he folded to the GM Clean Air Zone campaigners: speak up!
Let’s not forget how he folded to the GM Clean Air Zone campaigners: speak up!
December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Whoever put ‘new roads over Stockport’s greenbelt’ on their Christmas list, if they get adopted as part of the TfGM plan it will be Andy Burnham endorsing the idea. Not a great look at this point in his political career.
Let’s not forget how he folded to the GM Clean Air Zone campaigners: speak up!
Let’s not forget how he folded to the GM Clean Air Zone campaigners: speak up!
So who is really re-tabling this dreadful carbrained proposal, which (greenbelt destruction aside) threatens to swallow more time and money from developing sustainable solutions for the corridor? (Rail, bus, active travel…)
I await FOI responses from TfGM and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
I await FOI responses from TfGM and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
So who is really re-tabling this dreadful carbrained proposal, which (greenbelt destruction aside) threatens to swallow more time and money from developing sustainable solutions for the corridor? (Rail, bus, active travel…)
I await FOI responses from TfGM and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
I await FOI responses from TfGM and Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
TfGM state it’s “promoted by Cheshire East” but they seem to disagree.
”Cheshire East Council has not formally sought … provision of a bypass of Disley. The last time this issue was raised was … several years ago and this was never adopted by the Council”
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a6_h...
”Cheshire East Council has not formally sought … provision of a bypass of Disley. The last time this issue was raised was … several years ago and this was never adopted by the Council”
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a6_h...
December 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
TfGM state it’s “promoted by Cheshire East” but they seem to disagree.
”Cheshire East Council has not formally sought … provision of a bypass of Disley. The last time this issue was raised was … several years ago and this was never adopted by the Council”
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a6_h...
”Cheshire East Council has not formally sought … provision of a bypass of Disley. The last time this issue was raised was … several years ago and this was never adopted by the Council”
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a6_h...
We have to question why TfGM still want to include it at all: a 30 year dead idea that “would hinder rather than encourage a modal shift towards public transport within the A6 corridor” and “hinder the aim for lower carbon travel” with no modelling of adverse traffic impact on the Peak District.*
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
We have to question why TfGM still want to include it at all: a 30 year dead idea that “would hinder rather than encourage a modal shift towards public transport within the A6 corridor” and “hinder the aim for lower carbon travel” with no modelling of adverse traffic impact on the Peak District.*
Don’t forget Cheshire East’s transport consultation is still going too! Ends next weekend.
GM’s (including huge Stockport greenbelt roadbuilding) was waved through for consultation next month.
Merry Consultationmas! Pray for High Peak caught in the middle.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/public_trans...
GM’s (including huge Stockport greenbelt roadbuilding) was waved through for consultation next month.
Merry Consultationmas! Pray for High Peak caught in the middle.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/public_trans...
Local Transport Plan
Submit your views on the latest vision for transport in Cheshire East and view transport development plans for your local area.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Don’t forget Cheshire East’s transport consultation is still going too! Ends next weekend.
GM’s (including huge Stockport greenbelt roadbuilding) was waved through for consultation next month.
Merry Consultationmas! Pray for High Peak caught in the middle.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/public_trans...
GM’s (including huge Stockport greenbelt roadbuilding) was waved through for consultation next month.
Merry Consultationmas! Pray for High Peak caught in the middle.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/public_trans...
When did Stockport Interchange get a big wheel!
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When did Stockport Interchange get a big wheel!
Great to see a council acknowledge the cost of giving free Christmas parking, but at £3 for a single bus ticket or £2.50 for all day parking, for most people the decision will be made!
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Great to see a council acknowledge the cost of giving free Christmas parking, but at £3 for a single bus ticket or £2.50 for all day parking, for most people the decision will be made!
Been to a good one today! 🥰
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Been to a good one today! 🥰
The meeting is this Wednesday (agenda 5): democracy.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
Email the Mayor’s office now to say NO to endorsing massive greenbelt road building - remove the A6-M60 and A6 Disley Bypass from the GM Transport Delivery Plan:
[email protected]
Email the Mayor’s office now to say NO to endorsing massive greenbelt road building - remove the A6-M60 and A6 Disley Bypass from the GM Transport Delivery Plan:
[email protected]
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The meeting is this Wednesday (agenda 5): democracy.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
Email the Mayor’s office now to say NO to endorsing massive greenbelt road building - remove the A6-M60 and A6 Disley Bypass from the GM Transport Delivery Plan:
[email protected]
Email the Mayor’s office now to say NO to endorsing massive greenbelt road building - remove the A6-M60 and A6 Disley Bypass from the GM Transport Delivery Plan:
[email protected]
Dark spaces atop Marple Ridge, defining the fringe of Greater Manchester with views of the Peak District?
No thanks, let’s have the headlights and din of another A6, cutting through ancient woodland, climbing 100 metres from the valley below.
Not everything from the 90s deserves to come back.
No thanks, let’s have the headlights and din of another A6, cutting through ancient woodland, climbing 100 metres from the valley below.
Not everything from the 90s deserves to come back.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Dark spaces atop Marple Ridge, defining the fringe of Greater Manchester with views of the Peak District?
No thanks, let’s have the headlights and din of another A6, cutting through ancient woodland, climbing 100 metres from the valley below.
Not everything from the 90s deserves to come back.
No thanks, let’s have the headlights and din of another A6, cutting through ancient woodland, climbing 100 metres from the valley below.
Not everything from the 90s deserves to come back.
Peak Forest Canal clinging to the hillside at its Grade II listed Hagg Bank Bridge. If I had one dream for sustainable transport and reducing car use it would be to plow a huge new road right through here, roaring down into the valley.
All set to be endorsed by @andyburnham.bsky.social this week.
All set to be endorsed by @andyburnham.bsky.social this week.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Peak Forest Canal clinging to the hillside at its Grade II listed Hagg Bank Bridge. If I had one dream for sustainable transport and reducing car use it would be to plow a huge new road right through here, roaring down into the valley.
All set to be endorsed by @andyburnham.bsky.social this week.
All set to be endorsed by @andyburnham.bsky.social this week.
Don’t know about anyone else, but what I’ve always thought this 200 year old, Grade II listed bridge over the River Goyt is missing is a monstrous new concrete bridge screaming above it. Probably continuing on stilts because it’s essential floodplain.
Am I right Andy? @andyburnham.bsky.social
Am I right Andy? @andyburnham.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Don’t know about anyone else, but what I’ve always thought this 200 year old, Grade II listed bridge over the River Goyt is missing is a monstrous new concrete bridge screaming above it. Probably continuing on stilts because it’s essential floodplain.
Am I right Andy? @andyburnham.bsky.social
Am I right Andy? @andyburnham.bsky.social
You can find the 1990s plans here (downloads): archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow...
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
You can find the 1990s plans here (downloads): archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow...
Here's how that 'High Lane and Disley bypass' looks in the landscape.
For an indicative route it is oddly specific - and different to any of the routes last proposed in the 90s. Bear in mind that Disley Golf Club is atop a very visible hill and between Disley and Strines is a green, deep valley.
For an indicative route it is oddly specific - and different to any of the routes last proposed in the 90s. Bear in mind that Disley Golf Club is atop a very visible hill and between Disley and Strines is a green, deep valley.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Here's how that 'High Lane and Disley bypass' looks in the landscape.
For an indicative route it is oddly specific - and different to any of the routes last proposed in the 90s. Bear in mind that Disley Golf Club is atop a very visible hill and between Disley and Strines is a green, deep valley.
For an indicative route it is oddly specific - and different to any of the routes last proposed in the 90s. Bear in mind that Disley Golf Club is atop a very visible hill and between Disley and Strines is a green, deep valley.
The 90s plan cut cleanly halfway between Marple and Disley, crossing the canal at Turf Lea.
This seems to be different, almost following the line of the Disley tunnel but then with a bump at the end around something at Disley to rejoin the A6. Still devastating for the valley.
This seems to be different, almost following the line of the Disley tunnel but then with a bump at the end around something at Disley to rejoin the A6. Still devastating for the valley.
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The 90s plan cut cleanly halfway between Marple and Disley, crossing the canal at Turf Lea.
This seems to be different, almost following the line of the Disley tunnel but then with a bump at the end around something at Disley to rejoin the A6. Still devastating for the valley.
This seems to be different, almost following the line of the Disley tunnel but then with a bump at the end around something at Disley to rejoin the A6. Still devastating for the valley.