A555 Stockport news

[Helvellyn]

I listen to the Spotify the music streaming service and one of the adverts is a bloke saying that the new road has cut his commuting times in half. I suspect it's just a sign that a general election is imminent, but it's a weirdly specifically targeted ad.

Well it's added quite a bit of time to mine. The problems it caused on the A6 eased off a bit when the light timings were changed, and then it's been OK until recently anyway because of school holidays but this morning the queue was back to Disley, at a time when there was never a queue before.

[jackal]

The sort of post that seems to imply there are only two categories, complete wilderness and everything else, with everything else, from the busiest city centre to the quietest piece of farmland, being considered equal because they're heavily shaped by human influence.

Quite the strawman you've constructed there.

Nope, try again. You made a valid point about the picture not being representative of where the proposed road is but then came up with "the plasticity of natural and cultural heritage," with the implication that it's somehow fake and doesn't count anyway as an excuse to justify development, or at any rate "isn't unspoilt because it involves (relatively modern) human activity". That approach is just as specious as the picture used to present the objection.

In any case anyone who pretends any form of development isn't a necessary evil at best that inevitably makes an obnoxious mess is in denial.

Plasticity does not mean or imply 'fake'. Hence the strawman.

[Helvellyn]

It often is used like that, more than any other meaning. Describing something as "plastic" is anyway. If your intention was to mean "malleable" then I apologise for misunderstanding (not that that changes the general gist of my opinion about that not being a relevant objection).

[jackal]

Yep, malleable. Anyway, let's just leave it there.

[Robert Kilcoyne]

The A555 has suffered major flooding for the sixth time in twelve months:-

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... 6-17151202

[Berk]

Why is the drainage not up to it?? Is this value engineering gone mad??

[Bryn666]

Why is the drainage not up to it?? Is this value engineering gone mad??

Clearly a design flaw somewhere and it isn't like anyone can claim it doesn't rain much around Manchester....

[Robert Kilcoyne]

Why is the drainage not up to it?? Is this value engineering gone mad??

Clearly a design flaw somewhere and it isn't like anyone can claim it doesn't rain much around Manchester....

Why is it that the final section of the M60 to be opened is invariably the first to suffer from flooding problems whenever there is heavy rain in the Manchester area? If you have a big downpour in Manchester, you can almost guarantee that the M60 will be closed as a result of flooding near Ashton-under-Lyne...

[fras]

Why is the drainage not up to it?? Is this value engineering gone mad??

No, it's valueless engineering etc

[nowster]

Why is it that the final section of the M60 to be opened is invariably the first to suffer from flooding problems whenever there is heavy rain in the Manchester area? If you have a big downpour in Manchester, you can almost guarantee that the M60 will be closed as a result of flooding near Ashton-under-Lyne...

The last part to be built was the Heaton Park to Daisy Nook section. The Daisy Nook to Denton section was built, surfaced and lined well before the final section was started.

The bit near the A664 junction was terrible for flooding, and even had slippery road signs for a few years.

[Bryn666]

There has been improved drainage installed around Blackley after a few high profile total closures due to flooding.

Again not like this part of the world isn't known for rain...

[FleetlinePhil]

The A555 has suffered major flooding for the sixth time in twelve months:-

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk ... 6-17151202

When visiting the Mounting Stone micropub in Bramhall (also home to Made of Stone microbrewery) last week, I spotted this old pumpclip on the wall, which the proprietor kindly allowed me to photograph. The flooding is rapidly becoming part of local folklore, it appears!

Sorry I can't get it to align correctly, and the sharpness wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped for at only just after midday .

[Helvellyn]

Like it! I've seen plenty of worse jobs of signs too...

[Andyman]

This article was in the local rag today: https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news ... -a6-997163

Not much of a surprise - I've made journeys to North Wales, Chester, Liverpool and Didsbury from Sheffield since the A555 opened, and I've used it every time as an alternative to the Snake Pass. I wonder if more medium-to-long distance traffic is using the A6 to access the route than was initially predicted?

[Bryn666]

This article was in the local rag today: https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news ... -a6-997163

Not much of a surprise - I've made journeys to North Wales, Chester, Liverpool and Didsbury from Sheffield since the A555 opened, and I've used it every time as an alternative to the Snake Pass. I wonder if more medium-to-long distance traffic is using the A6 to access the route than was initially predicted?

Induced demand will be trotted out, but if traffic has reduced on other routes then that's no bad thing.

The A6 really does need improving out to Chapel-en-le-Frith.

[Truvelo]

Time to resurrect the Disley High Lane Bypass then

[fiveways]

Yet another major incident at the A523/A555 junction this afternoon (Monday 17th Feb. approx 2.30.p.m.) Several vehicles, including a police vehicle and a taxi involved. Two helicopters (!) and several ambulances, four + police vehicles and roads shut with growing queues. This junction needs a very serious rethink - this is the fifth/sixth major incident here since it opened, and that doesn't include the regular flooding.

[montyburns56]

Yet another major incident at the A523/A555 junction this afternoon (Monday 17th Feb. approx 2.30.p.m.) Several vehicles, including a police vehicle and a taxi involved. Two helicopters (!) and several ambulances, four + police vehicles and roads shut with growing queues. This junction needs a very serious rethink - this is the fifth/sixth major incident here since it opened, and that doesn't include the regular flooding.

According to the MEN it was blue light situation, so it's more likely to be a driver not paying attention, not the road layout itself.

[jackal]

Yet another major incident at the A523/A555 junction this afternoon (Monday 17th Feb. approx 2.30.p.m.) Several vehicles, including a police vehicle and a taxi involved. Two helicopters (!) and several ambulances, four + police vehicles and roads shut with growing queues. This junction needs a very serious rethink - this is the fifth/sixth major incident here since it opened, and that doesn't include the regular flooding.

According to the MEN it was blue light situation, so it's more likely to be a driver not paying attention, not the road layout itself.

If the junction was grade separated the vehicles in question would probably not even have been on the same level.

[A320Driver]

Yet another major incident at the A523/A555 junction this afternoon (Monday 17th Feb. approx 2.30.p.m.) Several vehicles, including a police vehicle and a taxi involved. Two helicopters (!) and several ambulances, four + police vehicles and roads shut with growing queues. This junction needs a very serious rethink - this is the fifth/sixth major incident here since it opened, and that doesn't include the regular flooding.

According to the MEN it was blue light situation, so it's more likely to be a driver not paying attention, not the road layout itself.

If the junction was grade separated the vehicles in question would probably not even have been on the same level.

Exactly. There is plenty of land around the junction so a GSJ could have been constructed with minimal demolition. Another short-sighted and penny-pinching decision on an important regional route.