P_NOCAT 2021 A North-South addition to The Great North Cycle Trail Album

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The River Bollin is a problem for leisure and commuting cyclists, and families with children, who want to ride between Cheshire and Manchester. A 5 mile stretch of the Bollin blocks them; car drivers don't even realise it's there.	Near the middle of the 5 miles is a junction of the M56 which it's easy to cross on a bike from the south. But there's no right to do so ... and you haven't crossed the Bollin.	Proposal Only two things are needed: 1) Give some existing closed tarmac roads the right of way for cycling. 2) Build a new light bridge over the Bollin at approximately 53.367°N 2.382°E	Whether within the Tatton Services project or separately, Trafford and Cheshire East authorities would need to work together on this, the Bollin being the boundary between them.
Crossing the river involves using the A56 for more than 600 yards in four lanes of 50mph traffic which have to be crossed. Families and children on bikes can't do this.	The proposed route crosses the M56 spur and there is already a large and solid bridge for that, but it doesn't cross the Bollin and has had little use for such an expensive asset which doesn't really go anywhere.	This Bollin crossing and opening the roads for cycling, could be included within the proposal to develop a motorway services nearby on the M56.	National, not local authorities plan the crossing of major boundaries by a motorway, an airport runway, or a high-speed rail link, which all cross the Bollin (or were planned to). How do you get the co-operation to cross it with just a new cycleway?
Click the picture below to see the details:			John Seymour This page is at www.jack.ski/bollin
Bollin Crossings in 2021 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Proposed Non-motorised N-S Route Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Proposed bridge site Click here to explore in Google (Opens in a separate window/tab)
From Bowdon, Altrincham & Hale, the proposed route will connect to things like:- Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Tatton Park, 2 miles to the south Sunday 19/09/2021 10:56 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	2019 The new Chester Road (ex-A556) cycle facility Tuesday 17/09/2019 16:44 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Knutsford, where cyclists could get to Bowdon, Altrincham and Hale, with things like:- Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)
Bowdon Park a few hundred yards to the north. Friday 01/10/2021 16:19 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Entering the southern end of the route at Tom Lane Friday 01/10/2021 15:10 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Yarwoodheath Lane crossing the M56, looking north Friday 01/10/2021 15:15 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Yarwoodheath Lane and the site for Tatton Services, looking north Friday 01/10/2021 15:16 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)
Exit of Yarwoodheath Lane on to the Bowdon roundabouts Friday 01/10/2021 15:17 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Already a cycle crossing, but there is now no good way to get here on a bike Friday 01/10/2021 15:19 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Crossing the M56 flyover between the Bowdon roundabouts, looking south Friday 01/10/2021 15:24 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	East from the M56 flyover, currently designated a public footpath Friday 01/10/2021 15:26 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)
Crossing the M56 spur looking north, officially just a public footpath Friday 01/10/2021 15:28 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Crossing the M56 spur looking south, officially just a public footpath Friday 01/10/2021 15:32 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	View to the west from the M56 spur crossing Friday 01/10/2021 15:33 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Site of the proposed crossing of the River Bollin: the only new thing needed Friday 01/10/2021 15:30 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)
Existing bridge over the M56 spur seen on Google Street View Click here to explore in Google (Opens in a separate window/tab)	North bank of the Bollin near the proposed new bridge Friday 01/10/2021 16:07 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Entering the route at the north end, looking west from Bow Lane Friday 01/10/2021 15:47 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Bow Lane at the northern end of the proposed route Friday 01/10/2021 16:14 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)
The proposal will avoid crossing two exits and an entrance of the northern Bowdon roundabout Friday 01/10/2021 15:37 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Travelling north you have to cross the second of the exits Friday 01/10/2021 15:39 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	You won't have to ride in 4 lanes of the A56 Friday 01/10/2021 15:39 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Riding north you have to cross 4 lanes of the A56 again Friday 01/10/2021 15:41 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)
Friday 01/10/2021 15:42 Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	Missing links shown on Open Source Mapping, cycling. Not much to ask for, is it? Click to see full-size (and start a slideshow)	TattonServices.com scheme design Click to open the link in a separate window/tab