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 […]

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg last week announced £115m in funding for cycling projects across the UK. The money will be split between eight major cities, with each using the money to improve the safety and accessibility of their cycle routes. The full details are below – but importantly Greater Manchester is to get […]

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. Not directly relevant to us in Holyrood Ward – but may well affect residents who use the buses to travel across Prestwich, or who […]

Residents who live in Rhodes may be affected by a proposed change to the 164 bus service currently being considered by Transport for Greater Manchester. 164 is an hourly service from Shudehill to Heywood, via Heaton Park and Middleton. The proposal is that the service will in the future run only to from Manchester to […]

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 services to and through Victoria station will stop for four days over next month’s half-term – the stop will close from February 14 to February 17. For passengers travelling from Bury, Oldham and Rochdale, there will be replacement buses running from Crumpsall, Central Park, Shudehill and Piccadilly Gardens. The stop is expected to re-open […]

Some good news for pedestrians who cross Bury Old Road at its junction with Heywood Road. A number of people have been in touch telling us that crossing on the ‘northern side’ can be a challenge, because when the Bury Old Road lights are on red, traffic still comes up off Heywood Road at speed […]

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 […]

At the last full meeting of Bury Council I 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 being unused) show what […]