Tameside - Transport

Transport

Tameside is served by 13 railway stations. Denton railway station is on the Stockport to Stalybridge Line. Fairfield railway station, Guide Bridge railway station, Hyde Central railway station, and Hyde North railway station are all on the Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manchester. Broadbottom railway station, Flowery Field railway station, Godley railway station, Guide Bridge railway station, Hattersley railway station, and Newton for Hyde railway station are served by the Glossop Line between Glossop and Manchester. Ashton-under-Lyne railway station, Mossley railway station, and Stalybridge railway station are on the Huddersfield Line.

Work on an extension of the Manchester Metrolink costing £260M began in 2008. The original plan was to extend the Metrolink to Ashton-under-Lyne, but due to reduced funding from the government, the plans were for a time scaled back and it was planned that the extension would go only as far as Droylsden. However, work has started to bring the Metrolink to Ashton centre; currently (2012) work is well underway on the route to Ashton.

Tameside council is responsible for maintaining the public rights of way in the borough, including 145 mi (233 km) of footpaths. In 2003, the government passed a scheme to create a bypass between the M67 and the A628. The Longdendale Bypass is expected to cost between £240M and £315M and although it received support from the communities effected by the bypass in the form of a petition with 9,000 signatures, the scheme ran into opposition. An enquiry was launched in 2007, costing £15M, however the fate of the bypass remains undecided.