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Bypass: your say
Eve Dugdale29/ 8/2007
THE creation of a 920m-long tunnel through Glossop is one of the alternative proposals put forward to the Mottram-Tintwistle bypass.
A booklet of objectors' alternative proposals has just been published by the Highways Agency.
The 13-page document, which was sent out with the Advertiser, lists six alternatives to the draft orders published in February.
The first alternative suggests using the existing road network around Mottram and Hollingworth and proposes a new two-way link between the M67 terminal roundabout and a new roundabout with Roe Cross Road.
The second suggestion is a bypass at Mottram to the south of the A57. It suggests a dual carriageway which would connect the A560 Stockport Road to a proposed roundabout to the west of Gamesley - a link which would run through a tunnel approximately 920m long.
From this roundabout, single carriageways would link to the A626 Glossop Road and the A57 Brookfield.
A two-lane gyratory with a one-way flow around the A57 makes up the third option and a dual carriageway linking the existing M67 terminal roundabout with a proposed roundabout to the west of Mottram makes up the fourth.
Providing a 1.4km bypass of the village of Langsett in Sheffield is the next option and the final option is the rerouting of footpaths to connect Edge Lane with the A57 using the proposed Old Mill Farm underpass.
The Highways Agency, which says it is merely setting out proposals and does not favour any, says several alternatives to its published scheme have been suggested and consideration is being given to each of them.
The booklet can be picked up free at Hadfield and Mottram library, High Peak Borough and Tameside Council offices and from the Highways Agency in Manchester.
For information phone 0161 303 8252.
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