Thank you to everyone who gave up their Friday evening to join us at Mark Hunter’s public meeting about the Kingsway/Gatley Road junction. We had people from the Highways Agency, TfGM and Stockport Council to give a presentation about what’s happened, the challenges of the junction and what’s planned. We then had a Q&A before breaking out into smaller groups to come up with ideas for improving things.

The suggestions ranged from ways to improve traffic flow across miles, to big ideas like underpasses and motoways to much smaller ones like cameras and extra paint on the ground.

We’ll be reporting back in more detail in the next few weeks, with several pieces of work already planned to make further small improvements and a big study over the summer looking at traffic flows across the area.

One tip I got was to look at Google Maps traffic flow data to see where the queues are longest around the junction. You can see these for yourself by looking at Google Maps, selecting “traffic” and then “typical traffic”. The red lines show the longest queues.

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