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A57/A628 Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth and Tintwistle Bypass
A57/A628 Mottram in Longdendale, Hollingworth and Tintwistle Bypass
- Status
- Planned
- Located in
- Area 12
- Scheme type
- Programme of Major Schemes
The Project
The A57/A628 links the Greater Manchester conurbation with Sheffield and South Yorkshire. Where the A57/A628 passes through the villages of Mottram, Hollingworth and Tintwistle there are several junctions causing long delays for traffic, there is on-street parking, making the road narrow for the large numbers of heavy goods vehicles using the route, and together with steep gradients these make conditions difficult for residents, pedestrians and all road users.
The proposed bypass will address the issues within the villages by removing a significant volume of traffic from the existing route.
Following earlier investigations to provide a bypass, the scheme was restored to the road programme in 1989 and following a public consultation process a preferred route was selected in October 1993. After subsequent reviews by the government work was suspended in 1996. In July 1998 the new government published the results of its own review in “A New Deal for Trunk Roads” and included the bypass as a scheme to be progressed through the preparatory stages.
The Highways Agency’s submission to the Regional Planning bodies (North West, East Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside) in November 2002 concluded that there were no realistic alternatives to a bypass of the villages to solve the problems that existed. In April 2003 the bypass entered the Targetted Programme of Improvements (TPI) - this is now known as the Programme of Major Schemes.
As a bypass proposal in isolation could also have the effect of increasing the attractiveness of the whole route, proposals are also being put in place to discourage road users switching to the A57/A628/A616 corridor from other cross - Pennine routes. This is to provide an equitable balance between the problems in the villages and the impacts of traffic on the Peak District National Park.
To find out about what happens next for this scheme, please see the What Happens Next page.
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