Thanks, I wasn’t. Read about it a while ago and couldn’t quite envisage actually building such a thing! Obviously long term hope for little/no impact like existing gas and oil lines but the construction would be very visible and disruptive, and carbon heavy itself.

Let’s oppose spending £1bn on major roads destroying our green breathing space and encouraging everyone to drive everywhere for a start then.

Saw Toy Story on the front row of the circle! And sometime before that a live Sooty show. Looks even more of a gem than I remember.

Just follow this link: www.gmconsult.org/transport/tr...

Select ‘Delivery Plan’, scroll to Map 3.

Write that you strongly oppose endorsing the A6-M60 link road and A6 High Lane and Disley bypass (and other new roads for that matter).

Give reasons and suggestions for better solutions if you like.

Instead he’s about to sleepwalk into endorsing £1bn of green belt road building across Stockport and towards the Peak District!

For once AI does it better!

Snap!

They should’ve styled it “sHaRe WiTh cArE”.

I was mostly bothered by the awkward rail yellow on the front meeting Bee Network yellow on the sides. Hope the final livery is sharper!

Though based on the buses, they might not be in any hurry putting it on old stock?

Unfortunately if pushing a bike you’ll still need to deal with getting it up/down this mess on the Stockport side.

And if leaving/rejoining the towpath at Turf Lea lift bridge, two locked farm
gates with inappropriate gaps. (One in my view unlawful as it is quite newly created without permission.)

Big praise then for Disley Footpaths Society with assistance from the Parish Council for springing to action to improve part of the diversion off their own back!

Broken stile removed, new stone on the mud, stream drainage completely fixed and new raised path in progress! My grateful thanks sent. 👏

My issues with this remain:

• Still no warning notices at all further back along the canal (despite requests)
• No online publicity from CRT or councils (despite requests)
• No measures to assist safety of vulnerable users now shifted to roads (despite representations to Stockport council & cllrs)

Thanks that’s a good (bad) stat. Painfully aware, both seem quite linked and one (housing sprawl/new roads) will undoubtedly lead to the other. All feeling a lot to counter right now.

Some more into today to dig into here: www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/stoc...

A6M60 now priced at £750m!

Thanks, must’ve been when they realised more work needed doing. I was happy yesterday at least to see work has been done on the Cheshire part of the towpath diversion, fixing the drainage, new stone on the mud and removing the stile! Stockport side still poor.

Oh you can’t even walk under the aqueduct? Don’t think I’ve even seen that closure listed. Towpath was still very closed today and looking rather unlikely to reopen at end of week.

The town Christmas tree is just behind, held by a thing fixed to the wall. (And it seems to be national tradition that community Christmas trees be surrounded by them!)

I’ve also written to NMTC asking they be moved but sometimes whinging online is important and valid too. Sick of being made to feel completely unimportant while subsidising free car parking.

There’s also a separate application to expand the car park at Millers Dale. Again I see their need and it’s essentially brownfield I guess being former sidings but feels off-message drawing more car visitors all the way in to there. Blackwell and Hassop are better placed close to A roads.