Mottram Bypass: Jonathan Reynolds Letter To Constituents.
Anyone familiar with the Mottram Bypass issue knows locals have been trying to get a bypass built around the villages of Mottram-in-Longdendale and Tintwistle for over thirty years.
Tameside Council keeps collecting Council Tax, smiling and doing nothing. They are only interested in collecting parking fines that destroy the once thriving market and shopping areas of nearby Hyde, Stalybridge and Ashton town centres.
They also – unhelpfully – allowed Tesco to build a huge superstore directly adjacent to the site of one of Tameside’s worst traffic nightmares (M67/Mottram Moor).
Although Tesco’s is useful to locals (and particularly useful to the professional shoplifters of the neighbouring Hattersley sink estate), it has done nothing to ease the local traffic congestion.… Click here to continue reading this article