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New Cheadle crossing at accident blackspot
by Lib Dem team on 21 November, 2014
We all talk about places that are an “accident waiting to happen” from time to time, but there are places where an accident has happened.
The new crossing on Cheadle High Street (half way between the George & Dragon and Sainsbury’s) aims to make one of the most dangerous places in Cheadle safer. We consulted on it a couple of years ago as part of the overall plan to improve Cheadle village and it got strong public support, so we’re very pleased to see the crossing go into operation and start being used for people to safely cross the High Street.
Making Cheadle village centre easier and safer for shoppers to get around is an important part of boosting trade in the village, along with the new pavements.
21 Comments
If we have to have them, this is an excellent place for a crossing.
Love the new crossing
what a waste of money. There is another crossing 100 yds away plus traffic lights 75 yds the other way. Are people too lazy to walk there? We now have 3 sets of pedestrian crossings and 2 set of traffic lights with a 500 yds stretch along the high street. It used to be called the cheadle crawl its more like the cheadle standstill now.
If I it means greater safety all well and good, however 5 sets of lights between the George and Dragon and Warren Ave does not help traffic flow!
Agreed also, the the traffic in Cheadle Village has got consistently worse throughout 2014. Roadworks, streetworks, cycle path works, traffic lights, lowering the speed limit to 20mph, congestion, congestion, congestion . . . some of use actually live within the village centre as this is causing great concern!
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I couldn’t agree more with Graham. It also makes a bit of a joke regarding petrol wasting and pollution from idling cars.
If people are too lazy to walk an extra 10 seconds to an existing crossing, then its hard to have sympathy if they are in an accident. (I cant comment on the accident that has already happened as i dont know the circumstances) but as far as the people i see dodging cars to cross the road when a suitable crossing is located just seconds away is nothing short of the pedestrian putting themselves and the car drivers at risk through their own recklessness. A car driver doing similar would be charged with driving without due care and attention at the very least.
Rather than more crossings, i would suggest barriers along the pavement to prevent people crossing in unsafe places.
Can I ask how many accident have happened at this ‘blackspot’? Furthermore, as a cyclist this has added a new danger, as the road at this point narrows, forcing cyclist into the flow of traffic – did anyone in the Council consider that?
Not dissimilar to the changes on Manchester road, which as cyclist I used to feel reasonably safe on – not anymore now the Council have decided to narrow it! And whilst I recognise they have create a cycle lane on the pavement, this in itself is now dangerous as cyclist are sharing the pavement with pedestrians and other cyclist coming in the opposite direction – again I ask how many accident have occurred on this road (I notice one, since these ‘improvements’ last week.
I agree with the other comments, the amount is lights in Cheadle is madness, but I notice Stockport Council are quite good at wasting other peoples money
Absolutely David Brown! Utter waste of rate payers money. Effort should have been put into the crossing near the George and Dragon as time and time again there are many accidents here. The crossing still is not clearly defined, to road uses, cyclists or pedestrians, utter madness!
Who on earth approves these ridiculous schemes Iain Roberts?
Hi Simon,
Glad you’ll be supporting our proposals for improving the G&D crossing.
I think the details of how the new crossing came about, the public consultation etc. are in the article.
Iain,
The article states that it is an accident blackspot, can you give me the stats on this as I can’t find anything that would indicate that it is.
BTW, I am convinced that the ‘improvements’ on Manchester Road will lead to more accidents – since this improvements came into effect, as a cyclist I have never been more scarred on this stretch of road.
The wheelchair user in the photograph is a reminder that for some people a slow and perhaps painful walk of 100 yards – and back – might be more significant than it is to the rest of us.
I think the new crossing is a good thing and doubt that traffic will be held up much more since a clear run through the village cannot be expected due to the other crossings and traffic lights already established – as well as the 20mph speed limit.
It is so much effort to sit in your comfortable car seat listening to the radio while lazy people wishing to visit several shops along both sides of the street are crossing and adding to that strain! I had started out to be polite but the increasing precedence of wheels over feet is now insane. This is especially true since a large proportion walk for financial economy or healthy exercise – things sitting in a car do not achieve. I drive when needed but am happy to give precedence to pedestrians – especially on a busy shopping area or near schools. No the car is not King nor does it make its drivers into Emperors!
I think you are are missing the point , we already have safe crossings on the High street. Why spend money that icould be better used elsewhere. Today I noticed people crossing the High street without using either of the 2 crossings so what was the point of an extra one.
Obviously to get more people using the crossings instead of walking between the traffic which is the temptation when remote from a crossing!
Any ideas what’s happened to the pavement works Iain Roberts? It all seems to have gone very quiet, the last works were several weeks ago and the project is only 2/3rds complete. It was meant to be completed in 2014 and presently appears to have stopped outside Boots the chemist, leavening the remaining third of the area towards the George and Dragon-Ashlea/Daniel Maxwell Cars unfinished.
Similarly, when will the Robert Ockleston memorial be relocated to Cheadle Green as promised it would be this Summer?
I have a friend who works in the council who tells me they have run out of money to pay the contractors, is this true and if so, will the work not be completed?
Hi Simon,
The Ockleston memorial relocation was never part of this scheme and certainly wasn’t promised for the summer. I believe the Cheadle Civic Society want to move the memorial, but it’s a big project and I don’t think there’s a date for it yet.
There were always three phases to the work in the village. The first two phases are complete and the funding for the third phase may be in the next financial year.
If the Ockleston memorial was never part of the scheme, why is there an empty space on the green?
As for the pavements.
How can a project be started when there is only enough funding for two thirds? It beggars belief. Poor planning and execution.
Funny how it’s the East Side or Moseley end and not the “west End” that has been left out.
Garry – two totally different schemes – the Cheadle Green improvements are separate from the High Street works. As for financing, welcome to the world of local government where we only find out each year how much money we’re getting for the next. We could just sit there and do nothing, I guess!,
Perhaps the pavement works would have been completed in full and quicker if the contractors chosen did not spend half a day every day just looking at what needed doing IT WAS PATHETIC TO SEE SO CALLED CONTRACTORS AT WORK.
I can only conclude that either the Council were completely ripped off with the cost of this job or the contractors have lost a fortune doing it. NO GUESES WHICH ONE IS RIGHT.
Also Ian it would be nice to see even one cyclist using the new route that you championed to avoid the High street, cyclists still use Wilmslow road and the High street to access Manchester road and then completely ignore the new cycle lane to access Parrs Wood. This was a great idea now cyclists cars buses and trucks all share a narrower road WELL DONE.