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by Lib Dem team on 13 October, 2014
Manchester section of Styal Road to be resurfaced as part of the works.
The Lib Dems have secured the resurfacing of the sections of Styal Road in Gatley, with local MP Mark Hunter pressing for the work to be done.
We had thought that as most of Styal Road was resurfaced, the part in Manchester (from Hollyhedge Road down to near South Drive) would be left undone, though we had always asked that agreement should be reached if possible.
We’re very glad that an agreement has now been reached with Manchester so Stockport’s contractors will do their section with Manchester Council picking up the bill.
The two main junctions (with Church Road and with Hollyhedge Road) will now be resurfaced on Sunday 19th and Sunday 26th October – the other timings will not change, and the current projected completion date for the full resurfacing (from Yew Tree to Church Road) remains 26th October.
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This is great news. Common sense has prevailed. However, while walking up Styal Road last night the road surface would appear not to have been that greatly scarified, there are parts where you can see multiple layers of tarmac and arears you can see where they have taken the surface back to cobbles. These layers are more than likely not bonded to the underlying surface as this is how the damage to the current surface has arisen, if left this will just give rise to the new surface parting from the existing surface. I would suggest someone from the Highways Authority looks into this ASAP before it is covered over.
Let’s hope they do a better job than Park Road!
Why is the 2nd phase of the Styal road resurfacing being done on a patch repair basis. Surely it would be better tot ake up the whole surace then just carry out patch repairs. I thought this was going to be a good idea for Styal road but now see it being a waste of time. there will be arears of new tarmac and areas of old failing tarman. The contractors has the machines, workforce materials yet is doing a cut price job.
Hi Jon – every road has been properly surveyed to see what repairs are needed. Where sections of the road are sound and likely to last for years to come, they aren’t generally being repaired just for the sake of it – the money spent doing it could be better spent on roads that really need the work done.
£100 million is a lot of money to invest in repairing our roads and pavements – far more than we’ve ever spent before and more than other councils are spending – but it doesn’t stretch to replacing everything and, if we repair good sections of road, we won’t have the money to do all the bad ones.
Iain – I appreciate your quick response and while I understand that there maybe other roads in greater state of disrepair than those areas left on Styal Road. Pro active maintenance and renewal is far better than reactive maintenance and repair. Replacing the whole surface would have been far better than patch repairs. After all a continuous road surface is far better than one with numerous joins etc with differing materials. If someone turned up to replace a flat roof and said that that bits seems ok so I’ll only replace poor sections the roof may last another few years but is effectively not one surface and over time has more chance of failing at hose joins than a complete replacement would do. You end up paying twice for the same job. – As has been mentioned above Park Road is a prime example! It is noted that this was due to the contractors error and was put right at their cost.