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Mon 15th Sep 2008
Tameside MBC have sent a reply in response to our query about road crossings. It leaves more questions than answers. We are a bit concerned that it appears that someone has to be injured before the council will consider improved pedestrian facilities at a junction. We would also like to know what a 'signallised junction' with pedestrian facilities attached really means. If it is just some traffic lights with the raised pavement but which have no green man facility then I think the statistics are very misleading because they are not adequate for crossing safely. We would also like to know what the 'audit commissions criteria for disabled access facilities' are. However, at least we have a response which gives us something to build on.
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Read "Road Safety Update - get knocked down and you might get a safer crossing" in full
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Sat 2nd Aug 2008
The Tameside Lib Dems have been doing a lot of cycling into central Manchester recently, sometimes using the Ashton canal towpath and sometimes Ashton Old Road. The weather has been a bit hit and miss but the British summer has been almost kind (well, at least the temperature has been hovering around 20). Overall though, it has shown how easy it is to cycle into Manchester but at the same time opened our eyes to the badly designed junctions (try crossing 3 lanes of busy traffic on a bike just so you can turn right) , terrible road/towpath surfaces and just how many drains there are to avoid when you are cycling in the gutters!! Canal towpaths are pushed by the council as a way to travel around by bike but the Ashton one would need a much better surface if it was used by more than a few bikes every day. At the moment it is more like an off road mountain bike track with deep puddles and ruts. The canal looks a bit too close for comfort on some of those bends! With a little bit of investment more people could be encouraged to use the bicycle as a way to get into the city. Cycling is maybe not something you want to do every day but if 10% of car journeys were replaced by cycle ones it would make a huge difference to congestion, the environment and your health. It will be interesting to see if anything comes out of Tameside's cycling review, at the moment the cycling strategy is nowhere to be seen.
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Read "The Summer of Cycling"
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Sat 2nd Aug 2008
Leaders of the 10 local councils in Greater Manchester have agreed that a public referendum should take place on the congestion charging proposals. The results will be broken down on a borough by borough basis and only if people in seven out of the 10 Greater Manchester authorities vote yes will congestion charges be imposed.
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Read "Congestion Charge - It's up to you" in full
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Fri 4th Jul 2008
Liberal Democrats in Tameside have launched a stinging attack on David Heyes, Andrew Gwynne and James Purnell, the three MPs that represent the Tameside area, for siding with phone company giants rather than residents in a row over the power of communities to stop inappropriately sited phone masts.
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Read "Labour have sided with phone giants against local communities" in full
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Wed 11th Jun 2008
As predicted by the Tameside Liberal Democrats earlier this year, more Post Office Closures are on their way. The Labour Government have announced a further round of closures with 6 in Tameside alone. The Post Offices facing the axe are:
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Read "Labour announce more Post Office closures" in full
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Sun 6th Apr 2008
It's sometimes a bit dangerous as a pedestrian in Tameside: being out and about over the last few weeks has shown several pedestrian crossings where you take your life into your hands. No green man to assist you makes things a bit tricky, must be close to running the gauntlet if you are blind! The council need to sort out the crossings listed below before someone gets seriously injured.
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Read "Look both ways before you cross (and then run like mad)" in full
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