Manchester needs a motorway spur (From Knutsford Guardian)

Manchester needs a motorway spur

11:44am Wednesday 9th December 2009

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None of the options for the A556 bypass will be a solution to the horrendous traffic dangers and problems now encountered.

The use of the A556 as a link between motorways was only supposed to be an economic stopgap anyway. Why is it that the mega-conurbation of Manchester has never had a southern motorway approach? Traffic to and from the greater Manchester area is crying out for such a motorway spur from the M60 ring road.

The clear solution is for that spur to come from the M6 between the Knutsford and Holmes Chapel junctions to join the M56 at or very near its Hale junction 6, a short distance from the travellers and freight movements. That done, the Tabley junction 19, linking the A556 to the M6 should be closed and demolished. The A556 would revert to the reasonably quiet old main road between Altrincham and Northwich.

The money allotted to the present Highways Agency schemes, plus very little more I suggest, would build the motorway spur through the relatively open countryside, passed Mobberley, and save all the argy-bargy about what to do with the A556, which is sure to produce the wrong answer and no proper solution to please anybody.

PETER KEMP Knutsford

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