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Scheme Objectives
Why the Scheme is Needed
The A57/A628/A616 trunk road connects the M67 from Manchester to the M1 in South Yorkshire. It is a single carriageway road through the villages of Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle and through the Peak District National Park and carries a high proportion of heavy goods vehicles.
Within Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle the road has steep gradients, frequent accesses and several junctions, causing long delays for traffic. Through the villages, the road generally is narrow making it unsuitable for the volume and nature of traffic it carries. Narrow footpaths, with houses and shops close to the road, make conditions difficult for pedestrians. The traffic generates noise, visual intrusion and air quality problems in the villages. The volume of traffic results in safety and community severance problems for local residents, pedestrians and other road users.
A total of 82 personal injury accidents (2 fatal, 14 serious and 66 slight) were recorded over a period of 5 years (2000 to 2004) on the trunk road route between the M67 roundabout and Townhead Farm.
Scheme Objectives
The scheme objectives are as follows:
- Environment - to improve the local environment in Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle, and to minimise the impact on the Peak District National Park.
- Safety - to improve safety for all road users in the villages of Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle.
- Economy - to reduce congestion and delays to through and local traffic and to improve journey time reliability.
- Accessibility - to reduce community severance, to improve facilities for pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians, and to improve access to local public transport.
- Integration - to support regional and local transport strategies, the South Pennine Integrated Transport Strategy, and to take account of the views of the Regional Planning Conferences.
