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Walk Ride Stockport @walkridestocky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stockport's quiet lanes would be greatly improved by restricting motor traffic this way.

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Chinley and Buxworth Transport Group @cbtransportgroup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This coming weekend, the 26/27 Sept there is a an Art Trail by Rail event coordinated by Hope Valley Climate Action group + High Peak Community Rail Partnership. Chinley is hosting a dozen artists at the WI Hall. Read more here... chinleybuxworthtg.co.uk/blogs/hope-v... @peaksandpuddles.com

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/09/2026

A really surprisingly good gear change for Cheshire East! And a hopeful example also for their roads without painted lanes yet hugely wide enough for similar (you could say ‘London’ style) treatment. Not point’in at any in particular.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 18/09/2026

Beginning to wonder if you’ve actually visited or cycled in Greater Manchester? Burnham did… bits… but it’s actually still seriously lagging behind many other areas in network development and if anything it’s a worrying example of his lack of real commitment to active travel.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 07/08/2026

Perhaps “is helping to make that vision a reality” would be a more accurate appraisal of a still woefully sparse, disconnected and underfunded “network”. But maybe now seeing that struggle, PM Burnham will remember to fund active travel properly and implore councils to make progress? (You’d hope.)

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I would love for someone to do a quick calculation of the cost of barbecue-related wildfires vs whatever benefit they bring to the economy.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 13/04/2026

Good, it’s surprising (or not) how many people (and DPD drivers) try to drive that way. I guess it peters out around the stables. Which makes me wonder about equestrians, knowing the effort gone to with flexipave centre strips etc elsewhere around here…

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 11/04/2026

Oh it’s Strines! That’s quite a change from the narrow tarmac wheel strips. I seem to remember not long ago it was all pretty bumpy. How far up does it go?

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Chinley and Buxworth Transport Group @cbtransportgroup.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Hope Valley Mini Switzerland project announced today that it has financial backing from the DfT/East Midlands CCA Read our post here... @wrirosscities.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @highpeakgreens.bsky.social @paultattam.bsky.social chinleybuxworthtg.co.uk/blogs/govern...

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James Stafford @jamesdestafford.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I cycled phase 1 of the Wilmslow Handforth cycle path, its alright. Better than the share paths in the area. I read people have seen school children use it, that is good to hear.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 22/03/2026

Looks really surprisingly good for Cheshire East!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 09/03/2026

Last chance. Closing today. (If you miss it, possible you can still email transport2050@tfgm.com)

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Steve @steveessex.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As a distraction from events in Manchester, those who cycle, use trains and live or travel in the North might want to participate in this short survey: surveys.northernrailway.co.uk/jfe/form/SV_... There's a free form question at the end for being creative.

surveys.northernrailway.co.uk

Northerneers Survey

Northerneers Survey about Cycling

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 15/02/2026

Please fill in this consultation to make a pretty dreadful roundabout in Buxton a bit more favourable to active travel!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 01/02/2026

Yes and good to know, thanks James, I assume it was only closed for the aqueduct portion of the works. The CRT page now says closure above extended until 13th Feb, I guess for towpath as well as canal. Haven’t actually been up to check progress myself.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 16/01/2026

Thanks, I wasn’t. Read about it a while ago and couldn’t quite envisage actually building such a thing! Obviously long term hope for little/no impact like existing gas and oil lines but the construction would be very visible and disruptive, and carbon heavy itself.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 13/01/2026

Let’s oppose spending £1bn on major roads destroying our green breathing space and encouraging everyone to drive everywhere for a start then.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 12/01/2026

Saw Toy Story on the front row of the circle! And sometime before that a live Sooty show. Looks even more of a gem than I remember.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 07/01/2026

Just follow this link: www.gmconsult.org/transport/tr... Select ‘Delivery Plan’, scroll to Map 3. Write that you strongly oppose endorsing the A6-M60 link road and A6 High Lane and Disley bypass (and other new roads for that matter). Give reasons and suggestions for better solutions if you like.

Visual guide to responding to Greater Manchester Transport Delivery Plan consultation.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 07/01/2026

Hello 2026, time to get to work on changing this before the March deadline? Two minutes of your time for a personal objection. Could really use some wider publicity, please do anything you can!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 28/12/2025

Note that a now seemingly annual mega noisy tractor parade is happening today looping through High Lane, Marple, Strines, New Mills, Hayfield, Disley. Organised for the great cause that is The Christie cancer care. Embrace it or go elsewhere! And here is an unrelated article.

theguardian.com

Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK

Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers

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Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com · 26/12/2025

It’s not every day that a path near my home makes a major political announcement and national news… but the “Mersey Valley Way” has that honour this Boxing Day. /1 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west

Mersey Valley Way takes in Manchester and Stockport on its 13-mile route with other walks to be identified in 2026

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 23/12/2025

Instead he’s about to sleepwalk into endorsing £1bn of green belt road building across Stockport and towards the Peak District!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 22/12/2025

Snap! They should’ve styled it “sHaRe WiTh cArE”.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 21/12/2025

Tea towels for all the Cheshire towns at the Treacle Market today.

Printed tea towels for Macclesfield, Prestbury, Abersoch, Altrincham, Alderley Edge…

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/12/2025

I was mostly bothered by the awkward rail yellow on the front meeting Bee Network yellow on the sides. Hope the final livery is sharper! Though based on the buses, they might not be in any hurry putting it on old stock?

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/12/2025

Unfortunately if pushing a bike you’ll still need to deal with getting it up/down this mess on the Stockport side. And if leaving/rejoining the towpath at Turf Lea lift bridge, two locked farm gates with inappropriate gaps. (One in my view unlawful as it is quite newly created without permission.)

A steep, narrow, muddy slope on a right of way with fallen and twisting tree branches across its path. Bicycle handlebars show the narrow width and difficulty of access as a diversion route.

A farm gate locked in place across a right of way by a large concrete block, the gap being so narrow it is effectively a new stile. The gate was previously (until a few years ago) locked at 90 degrees to the farm building in the background. (Rights of Way officer has not progressed complaint, to my knowledge)

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/12/2025

Big praise then for Disley Footpaths Society with assistance from the Parish Council for springing to action to improve part of the diversion off their own back! Broken stile removed, new stone on the mud, stream drainage completely fixed and new raised path in progress! My grateful thanks sent. 👏

Location of a former stile on canal bridge 23 beside a field gate. The stile is removed and new stone to make good the surface. A bicycle is propped where it would’ve had to be lifted over.

Fresh stone on what was a very muddy and slippy narrow slope on the right of way.

A boggy section of a wooded footpath with wooden boards installed to presumably be infilled and made level to provide a route over the wet section.

A fast flowing stream from the woods to the canal now controlled by wooden boards and routed through drainage pipes under the path.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/12/2025

My issues with this remain: • Still no warning notices at all further back along the canal (despite requests) • No online publicity from CRT or councils (despite requests) • No measures to assist safety of vulnerable users now shifted to roads (despite representations to Stockport council & cllrs)

Swing bridge at Disley with existing sign board; it would be easy to attach a poster “canal closed x km ahead here” but CRT don’t seem to understand.

New information board at closure site after suggesting it would be helpful to inform users what is actually going on. No reopening dates or clearer map of diversion route is included. From this point on Disley side towpath users have to backtrack a long way unless they swim across canal.

Close-up zoom of construction site. Until recently reopening had been scheduled for 18th December. No publicity or update to signage has been undertaken to inform users of changing situation.

Looking down towards construction site from Turf Lea Farm; diggers and temporary haul road across field in rural valley.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/12/2025

⚠️ Canal & River Trust have confirmed to me that the Peak Forest Canal towpath between Marple and Disley will now remain closed right through to 30th January 2025. Wholly understandable, the work is vital, but it remains a huge inconvenience to those of us who rely on the path as a transport route.

Photo of canal closure point this week with waterway drained and a mass of machinery and equipment.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/12/2025

Thanks that’s a good (bad) stat. Painfully aware, both seem quite linked and one (housing sprawl/new roads) will undoubtedly lead to the other. All feeling a lot to counter right now. Some more into today to dig into here: www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/stoc... A6M60 now priced at £750m!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 17/12/2025

Thanks, must’ve been when they realised more work needed doing. I was happy yesterday at least to see work has been done on the Cheshire part of the towpath diversion, fixing the drainage, new stone on the mud and removing the stile! Stockport side still poor.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 16/12/2025

Oh you can’t even walk under the aqueduct? Don’t think I’ve even seen that closure listed. Towpath was still very closed today and looking rather unlikely to reopen at end of week.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 15/12/2025

Heard the canal towpath at Strines Aqueduct may be open? But the CRT stoppage page also states due to towpath side walls being in far worse state work will now continue to 30th January (half expected would happen 🙁): canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/0196... Anyone been along lately?

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 15/12/2025

The town Christmas tree is just behind, held by a thing fixed to the wall. (And it seems to be national tradition that community Christmas trees be surrounded by them!)

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 14/12/2025

I’ve also written to NMTC asking they be moved but sometimes whinging online is important and valid too. Sick of being made to feel completely unimportant while subsidising free car parking.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 14/12/2025

Not again, New Mills! 🎄🚲 (Fond memories of the Christmas I got verbally abused by former local cllr on Twitter for daring to suggest putting pointless metal barriers around the only cycle stands when local businesses need supporting is A Bit Bloody Stupid. These are unfixed and can be moved, but…🤷‍♂️)

Grey metal barriers surround both a small town Christmas tree and two Sheffield cycle stands with high street shops in the background.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 12/12/2025

There’s also a separate application to expand the car park at Millers Dale. Again I see their need and it’s essentially brownfield I guess being former sidings but feels off-message drawing more car visitors all the way in to there. Blackwell and Hassop are better placed close to A roads.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 12/12/2025

A new addition to the Peak District cycle parking map! Brill work and thank you - perfect coffee stop on the Cheshire Mountains of Macclesfield now.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 11/12/2025

I think I’ve finally learnt to love the natural drama of our shortest days. The secret is just to get outside.

Tight rays of golden sunlight burst through cloud in a wide green valley.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 11/12/2025

Crowden Clough to Ringing Roger refreshing the soul today.

Top of Crowden Clough looking across to Mam Tor. A stream begins to tumble between gritstone boulders.

Wind-shaped rock formations in a bleak winter moorland landscape with crisp cloud and blue sky.

Silhouetted jagged gritstone outcrops black against a blue cloudy sky and faded yellow moorland grasses.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 11/12/2025

One person can’t oppose £1 billion’s worth of destructive roadbuilding. Surely this isn’t the future we want. Please do all you can to raise awareness and respond!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 10/12/2025

🙌 Together we need to do all we can to raise alarm and rally opposition to more roads giving us more traffic, in even more sensitive areas. ✍️ Tell everyone, especially organisations, to prepare their responses. 💬 Do it yourself now in 2mins: (Delivery Plan, Map 3) www.gmconsult.org/transport/tr...

Screenshot of consultation showing boxes to fill under “Delivery Plan” “Map 3” or email transport2050@tfgm.com

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 10/12/2025

There is a lot to support too: tram, rail and active travel plans. But this endorsement of major roadbuilding would be a disastrous misstep, setting the course for destruction of landscape, wildlife and sustainable transport hopes; dumping huge volumes of traffic on the Peak District’s doorstep.

Map of road schemes with “Peak District National Park” location sticker added.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 10/12/2025

Consultation is now OPEN on GM’s Transport Strategy 2050, which resurrects old ideas for major roadbuilding over our precious remaining green spaces. Endorsing an A6-M60 link road and A6 High Lane and Disley bypass would hinder key policies in the plan, wasting money and time on the wrong solution.

“Huge new roadbuilding here?” banner over pastoral scene.

“The route is likely to fall in proximity to listed buildings such as the Grade II listed Goyt Hall, where development could cause permanent harm to its wider open countryside setting.”

Both will “involve new road infrastructure across important local landscapes and are likely to cause permanent harm to landscape features including field patterns and boundaries, trees and green infrastructure.”

- Integrated Appraisal of the Draft GM Transport Strategy 2050 and Delivery Plan

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 10/12/2025

🚨🚗💨 Thanks to Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester, foothills and valleys of the Peak District fringe face the gravest threat of our lifetimes from huge new roadbuilding. Two severely harmful old road proposals have been dug up for TfGM’s 2050 transport plan. But you can choose a different way. 🌳👇

Photo of green valley below a canal with Kinder Scout visible in distance. Caption titled “Huge new roadbuilding here?”

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 09/12/2025

Pivot! The Greater Manchester Transport 2050 consultation is now finally live and in the Delivery Plan doc an A6 High Lane and Disley bypass is no longer “promoted by Cheshire East.” 🤭 *Of course* it was only ever a Stockport Council Highways pipe dream. www.gmconsult.org/transport/tr...

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 04/12/2025

Wow that’s spectacularly poor. Besides fares unlikely to be much of an immediate step-change with Bee Network Rail either?

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