Metrolink have written to local councillor’s informing them that there is a rolling programme of overnight working between midnight and 5am from Sunday 8 March until Friday 8 May, 2015. The following locations will be affected at various times during this period: · Bury Metrolink stop to Radcliffe Metrolink stop · Radcliffe Metrolink stop to […]

Transport for Greater Manchester and Bus Operators are proposing some significant changes to the bus services which currently serve the Hilton Lane, Butterstile Lane and Bury New Road areas of Prestwich – although less directlyrelevant to a lot of Sedgley Ward this may well affect residents who in the Bury New Road area, or who […]

Long suffering passengers on the Bury Metrolink line will have welcome the return to: – trams stopping at Victoria, and – through trains to Piccadilly both which came into force last week. This now means that we have our six-minute service from Bury to the city centre back and a link to Piccadilly station. The […]

Two important pieces of news around cycling in the Prestwich area Prestwich to Heaton Park Cycle Route Work is starting this month to improve cycling facilities in Prestwich with an improved route for cycling between Heaton Park and Prestwich Metrolink. The work is part of the Government Funded Cycle City Ambition Grant which has been […]

Metrolink have written to councillors to inform us that they will be carrying out a rolling programme of overnight cabling and ducting works at various locations along the Bury line from the Queen’s Road junction to Bury Metrolink stop between midnight and 5am from now until 19th December, 2014. No work will take place over […]

On Monday the Government made a detailed announcement on investment in roads across the country. In the North West, this amounts to nine new schemes, worth about £800 million and estimated to create 600 jobs in construction. Three will be of particular interest to local residents: M60 Junction 18 (Simister Island) “Improvement to the Simister […]

At the last full meeting of Bury Council my colleague Councillor Tim Pickstone asked a question of Bury’s representatives to Transport for Greater Manchester about their plans for ‘Real-Time’ bus information at bus stops. People might be familiar with the signs that we now have on Metrolink Platorms which show (after many years of them […]

The Highways Agency have produced an updated information leaflet regarding their M60 Junction 8 to M62 Junction 20 Smart Motorways scheme. More details about the project are available on the HA website at http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/M60-Junction-8-to-M62-Junction-20. In particular, the leaflet gives details of four exhibitions they are holding to give more information about the scheme. Locally, this includes […]

A number of residents have been in touch to ask about the report in the Prestwich and Whitefield Guide about the possible ‘singling’ of Bury New Road. Residents will be aware that the Council has (finally) agreed to invest £1/2 million (£500,000) in the Bury New Road area of Prestwich to address the traffic issues […]

First Bus has launched mobile ticketing across their whole operating area in Greater Manchester. Customers can now use their mobile phones as bus tickets! They have done this by launching an ‘app’ (First Bus Tickets), where customers can purchase a day, week, month and a new “Carnet” ticket. Once purchased customers can simply show the […]