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The Cabinet Member for
Parks, Highways & Transport Services has considered a report
outlining that the council had secured funding to develop a Quality
Bus Transit (QBT) corridor, aiming to make travel quicker and
easier for bus passengers in Stockport. This initiative was being
developed in collaboration with Transport for Greater Manchester
(TfGM) and was funded by the government's City Region Sustainable
Transport Settlement (CRSTS). The project was part of a major
investment spanning the entire 330 bus route connecting Stockport
to Ashton via Hyde and Dukinfield, which would see enhancements to
bus stops, junctions, crossings, and access points.
 
It was noted that the
‘Scheme B – Carrington Road’ relating to the
upgrade of the existing Pelican crossing on Carrington Road to a
Puffin crossing; the relocation of and improvement to bus stops on
Carrington Road; the provision of a cycle link between Crescent
Road and Carrington Road; and the provision of a raised table at
the junction of Werneth Street and
Carrington Road had been considered and recommended for approval by
the Central Stockport Area Committee at its meeting on 1 August
2024, however since that date it had been necessary to make some
minor amendments to the proposed schedule of traffic regulation
orders as a result of detailed design changes.
 
The Cabinet Member
Parks, Highways & Transport Services has then given approval to
the proposed ‘Scheme B – Carrington Road’ scheme,
and to the legal advertising of the associated package of traffic
regulation orders as detailed in the revised schedule of orders
attached at Appendix C to the report and, subject to the receipt of
no objections within 21 days of the advertisement date, the
subsequent making of the orders.

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