We’ve reported recently on a number of improvements around Gatley station funded by the Government’s Cycle City funding, including wider pavements and the sorting out of the flooding problem at the junction of Oakwood Avenue and Gatley Road. One thing we wanted to see was decent cycle parking at Gatley station, but as the land […]

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg this morning announced a multi-million pound investment in Stockport which will see big improvements to the Town Centre and open up the way for Metrolink to come into the town. The investments include Stockport’s Town Centre Access Package, designed to make it easier to get around the town centre in […]

The Lib Dem team have long supported a new railway station for Cheadle. The battle we’ve fought in the last few years has been to keep it on the agenda. Transport for Greater Manchester maintain lists of future projects for possible funding and we’ve had to fight to stop it vanishing! The issue has always […]

On Friday morning I attended a meeting of Rail North in Manchester on behalf of the Leader of Stockport Council. There were Council leaders and representatives from across the north of England, plus people from organisations like Transport for Greater Manchester. Patrick McLoughlin, Secretary of State for Transport spoke and answered questions. The idea of […]

The Council is currently consulting on proposals to develop a more flexible approach to supporting the users with the aim of significantly reducing £1.37 million annual budget. A substantial investment in the vehicle fleet is also needed over the next twelve months if the current standards are to be maintained. Councillor Keith Holloway, Executive Member […]

For some time we’ve been campaigning for a station at Cheadle (once upon a time there were two stations on different lines in Cheaadle, but the last one closed nearly fifty years ago). Our best chance relies on a new technology called tram-train – light trams running on heavy rail lines to provide a more […]

On Tuesday I presented the latest reports on the A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road to Stockport Council Executive, and all were approved. I reported back on the consultation over the road. We recognise that, although there is a very strong majority of people in favour of the relief road, there is also a smaller […]

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 […]

The two bus stops outside the former Tatton cinema are to be amalgamated, Transport for Greater Manchester have told us. There will be no changes to the bus timetable or to the buses using the stop.  The first bus stop (as buses arrive) will be removed and all buses will use the second stop, which […]

Having just spent 20 minutes sitting in a traffic queue through Gatley, I was a little surprised to see this tweet from the Poynton-based campaign group opposing the construction of the A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road.   Perhaps this was some different Cheadle and Gatley?  No, the campaigners really were publicly claiming that all […]