New bid for rail link between Marple and Stockport

[royal_marple]

How much of the rush hour traffic is people who actually work IN Stockport though? Most of the traffic seems to be heading towards the Portwood and Bredbury motorway entrances.

[Dave]

This statement about the budget from our MP William Wragg seems to throw some light on this issue:  https://www.williamwragg.org.uk/news/william-wragg-mp-secures-boost-2021-budget-our-area

Quote:  ‘William has secured funding for a feasibility study to link Rose Hill Marple, Romiley and Bredbury to Stockport Train station. This is a significant step to instate a service between Stockport and its neighbouring towns. This will come from the ‘Restore Your Railway’ bid, which aims to develop an re-instate lost rail services across the United Kingdom.’

Obviously we don’t know precisely the route the line might take, but one thing we do know is that it cannot be an exact ‘reinstatement’ of the former line because that route has been built on between Bredbury and Stockport.

[amazon]

Hmmm.  Marple to Stockport via Failsworth.  I’ll need to think about that……….. 🙄

Fly me to the moon let me play among the stars ,

[Dave]

Hmmm.  Marple to Stockport via Failsworth.  I’ll need to think about that……….. 🙄

[GM]

According to Google there is a road by that name in Failsworth, so you never know!.

[Dave]

Come on Steve - spill the beans! Where is the mystery railway line?

Good luck actually getting a straight answer

It seems GM was right, although to be fair to Cllr Gribbon, he mentioned last week that he had limited internet access, so maybe that's why he hasn't got back to us?     But Cllr Smart's office is not providing any information either, apart from assuring us that 'the Councillors will keep you updated with  any news' (which they are not, at the moment).

We really do need a rail link  between Marple and Stockport, and it's good that our elected representatives are pressing the government om our behalf - thank you!  But as I pointed out before, the letter from Cllrs Gribbon and Smart refers to 'reinstating the Rose Hill to Maple Grove line' 'using existing track'.   That makes no sense to me, and I think we're entitled to know exactly what it is that our councillors are asking for, which route they have in mind, and of course, where Maple Grove is.   

[GM]

How about widening the road into the tree free woodland by a couple of feet to give an actual two lane road to reduce the bottleneck.

[Belly]

Good luck actually getting a straight answer, it's probably cheaper and more cost effective to just sort out the two primary problems which cause traffic to back up.

That being the junction at Bredbury near the old rat pit and the double junction on Dan bank.

Sort those and traffic would flow and people who have time to use public transport can use so with a regular schedule.

The simple solution is the easiest instead of pie in the sky schemes that would cost billions.

How do you propose to 'sort the double junction on Dan Bank' without huge amounts of earthworks and destruction and enormous cost? Thats never going to happen. What you have now is what will always be.

[royal_marple]

There is a road from Dooley Lane where the cattery is/was which leads to next to Offerton Sand & Gravel. Could this form part of a segregated bus route?

[GM]

No wheels you don't seem to actually understand how to persuade people out of the car other than taxing the joy and freedom car ownership brings.

If public transport isn't slowed down by traffic, motorists are more likely to be tempted away especially when it comes to finding parking etc.

[wheels]

Good luck actually getting a straight answer, it's probably cheaper and more cost effective to just sort out the two primary problems which cause traffic to back up.

That being the junction at Bredbury near the old rat pit and the double junction on Dan bank.

Sort those and traffic would flow and people who have time to use public transport can use so with a regular schedule.

The simple solution is the easiest instead of pie in the sky schemes that would cost billions.

That's not a solution at all, all it would mean is that people continue to use their cars. Surely the whole point of Monday day traffic management is to get people out of their cars onto public transport. If motorists don't respond to the carrot perhaps it's time to think of greater restriction on car usage.

[GM]

Good luck actually getting a straight answer, it's probably cheaper and more cost effective to just sort out the two primary problems which cause traffic to back up.

That being the junction at Bredbury near the old rat pit and the double junction on Dan bank.

Sort those and traffic would flow and people who have time to use public transport can use so with a regular schedule.

The simple solution is the easiest instead of pie in the sky schemes that would cost billions.

[Dave]

Steve, can you enlighten us: what is the actual route of the railway line that you and Clllr Smart wrote to the DfT about?

I would reiterate this request @Steve Gribbon - What is the route that you support being reinstated? Can we have a map or diagram please? Or at least a clear description.

Come on Steve - spill the beans! Where is the mystery railway line?   

[GM]

And look how successful the bus lane in Stockport was, it was an utter and complete was of money.

Out of interest how much has already been wasted on these proposals by a councillor who can't even give specifics about how such a scheme would connect to the existing network or its route through an already densely populated area?.

[royal_marple]

Apparently my idea is called a bus corridor.

If there was a dedicated bus lane right down the A6 from High Lane to Stockport, then all that would be needed is a traffic free route from Marple to High Lane.