Categories
Closures Cycling Infrastructure Works

Roman Old Road to Buxton to close for remedial works

The old Roman Road around Combs Moss north of Buxton will be closed for up to two months to improve a notoriously deteriorated section of the signposted Pennine Cycleway and Midshires Way.

Categories
Campaigns Infrastructure Proposals

Lyme Park to withdraw harmful car park plans

National Trust property Lyme has just announced that the planning application it made nearly a year ago to relocate and massively expand its car parking will be withdrawn.

Categories
Cycling

National Trust’s Lyme causes two-mile A6 traffic queues

The National Trust’s Lyme Park, on the Cheshire edge of the Peak District, caused over 2 miles of queuing traffic on the A6 this Sunday morning — not for the first time.

Categories
Cycling

Marple active travel plans: a good start but not a strategy

Stockport Council is running a long-awaited consultation on cycling and walking proposals for Marple, on the south eastern edge of Greater Manchester, which needs your feedback by this Monday, 9th October.

Categories
Cycling Events Infrastructure

Tour of Britain tours Stockport cycling blackspots

This year’s Tour of Britain cycling race returns to our corner of the country again, with its opening stage on Sunday 3rd September arcing across Stockport on its way from Altrincham to Manchester.

Categories
Access Cycling Events

Five day Snake Pass closure heralds new mass cycle ride

The spectacular, sweeping climb up the A57 Snake Pass road out of Glossop will be a low-traffic space once again for five days in late May, prompting a new organised cycle ride to the summit.

Categories
Access Cycling Ideas

Lyme Park adds new cycling signs, extra bookshop space

You may be aware there is currently a bit of a thing ongoing with Lyme Park, a disaster which many hope can be averted. In the meantime, here’s two positive new moves from the National Trust property.

Categories
Closures Cycling Walking Works

Shallcross Incline: Whaley Bridge greenway rebuild finally begins

Work to rebuild the Shallcross Incline Greenway in Whaley Bridge has finally begun, more than three years after the already-poor surface was severely damaged in 2019’s rain storms.

Categories
Cycling Infrastructure Proposals Walking

Half of High Lane A6 cycle link could be created with one road filter

Stockport Council has trialled a single closure point to stop queue-jumping on a residential road off the A6 at the High Lane — a move which, if made permanent, could also provide up to half the length of a safe cycling route along this busy travel corridor.

Categories
Closures Cycling Walking

Marple’s Brabyns Park Iron Bridge closed for repair

The historic Iron Bridge connecting Brabyns Park in Marple with Rollins Lane in Compstall is currently closed for repair, blocking a key route for walking and riding across the River Goyt.