Manchester to Sheffield road tunnel plans

[Squiggs 11]

By the time we get a tunnel, the Star Trek transporter will have been invented. In Japan.

[Brian Equato 10]

what was the objection from this side - just general opposition to building on countryside?

 

The objections were for the extra traffic the bypass would attract to Woodhead so probably came mainly from the Penistone area.

[Bargepole23 337]

The objections were for the extra traffic the bypass would attract to Woodhead so probably came mainly from the Penistone area.

 

Presumably not from our very own Penistone999 though, he loves cars.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

I really can't believe they're still trying to build up our hopes with this scheme.

Well, it's not called the Hope Valley for nothing...

 

And that will be held up for decades with legal challenges, just like the Mottram bypass.

But this bypass would cost virtually nothing in comparison to the tunnel.

Or 'tunnels' as there are five schemes on display, of which four connect up the M67 [not the M60] to the M1.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37116050

Edited August 19, 2016 by Jeffrey Shaw
Typo corrected

[geared 303]

Chances are they'll go ahead with the mottram bypass instead

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Chances are they'll go ahead with the mottram bypass instead

If only...!

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

According to the Barnsley Chronicle this much needed bypass will cost £161 billion. Five routes have been identified,One on the outskirts of Sheffield off the A57. The other four been Junction 35A M1, north of junction 37M1 near A635 Cawthorne, and off the A61 A611.

 

Angel1.

[truman 10]

They have more important things to spend cash on

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37112208

[alchresearch 214]

Chances are they'll go ahead with the mottram bypass instead

 

Sadly that is just a tiny stretch of road, see pic:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longdendale_Bypass#/media/File:Longdendale_Bypass_Map.PNG

 

If they can't sort that out in the decades its been planned and argued, I can't see the tunnel ever getting started.

[geared 303]

Yea I agree, the pace at which things have gone is just glacial so you really have to take any kind of public announcement with a pinch of salt.

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

A tunnel seems to be the preferred method around the A61 A611. Apparently the traffic will be funneled from the Woodhead, Snake and the M62 towards this tunnel. Junction 35 also seems to be another starting point that would get traffic funneled to it.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

But then the traffic would have to head from southern parts of Sheffield quite a long way north.

Whereas A57 Snake is just up Manchester Road.