Cheadle and Gatley Lib Dems are moving
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by Lib Dem team on 23 May, 2013
The new East Didsbury Metrolink line is up and running, with new stations at East Didsbury (Parrs Wood), Didsbury Village, Burton Road, Withington and joining the existing line at St Werburgh’s Road before going via Trafford Bar into Manchester.
There’s free car parking at the East Didsbury stop, just over the world from the Parrs Wood complex, and we’re working on improving cycle links from Cheadle and Gatley to the new station – there’ll be big improvements over the next few months.
We’d like to see this line extended to come right into Stockport, but that’s going to take a while longer.
See the TfGM site for more information on the new line, which started running this morning.
6 Comments
Now all we need are some more frequent public transport services from Parrs Wood to Cheadle.
These would help to alleviate the A34 junction.
Pretty useless if you want to use public transport for the whole journey from Gatleyas there is no way of getting straight to East Didsbury other than by train and then you might as well go into Manchester by train the whole way. But then if the travel pass goes I’ll be driving t he whole way anyway.
Next stop Stocky ? then Marple (Rose Hill branch) ??
Certainly want to get it into Stockport. There are various options beyond that, and it might be that tram-train turns out to make more sense for Marple than tram.
These are all campaigns we have to fight.
Metrolink is great. It’s becoming a huge network of light rail of the sort that any 21st century city should be proud of.
However, as mentioned up-thread its expansion only serves to highlight that the providers of existing transport may be living in the dark ages. Metrolink will be pumping trams in and out of Didsbury every eleven minutes seven days a week, but anyone changing for a train on a Sunday may be shocked to discover that there is only one train an hour. This 1950s-style Sunday service has been inadequate for years and it will take political pressure to change it.
Rather than talk about future extensions to the tram network that the realists amongst us know are unlikely to happen, all councillors, of all parties, should be concentrating their efforts to ensure the system we’ve already got works better.
The bus links from Cheadle village to Manchester are just shocking, especially in comparison to basically every other suburb. No tram, no train, awful bus times etc. It’s a journey I do regularly and takes approximately 45 minutes (dreadful Rusholme/Fallowfield congestion) which is the same time the horse drawn ‘coach’ that ran in 1876 from the White Hart to the city centre used to take! (0830 arriving at 0915).
That fact alone should shame stagecoach/fingland et al.
The Didsbury area is now served by a bus terminal, train station and 4 tram stops, whilst poor Cheadle basically has the x57 and infrequent 130. Don’t even mention the ridiculous 44 service …More pressure needs to be put on the bus companies to run quicker services up Kingsway (ie more 130’s)even as loss leaders,and at least have the same operator running the x57/157 service so a ‘day rider’ is actually valid the whole day and not until it changes to Finglands in the evening, which is another ridiculous system that proves our public transport is the laughing stock of Europe.