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The Oldham Conservative Group has announced more good news for the Metropolitan Borough in the form of transport funding grants.

“Oldham Council has been awarded £1.5m from the Conservative government to improve transport links in Oldham.

“A grant of £855,000 provided by the Department for Transport (DfT) City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) will be used to help fund transport networks at the Beal Valley and Broadbent Moss due to having zero infrastructure as a result of the Labour Party bulldozing the green belt in Shaw and Sholver.

“The most controversial part of the package includes upgrading the “Big Lamp” roundabout to a CYCLOPS junction (pictured above) that will incorporate pedestrian/cycle crossing facilities, the creation of a segregated cycle link alongside Crompton Way linking to Shaw town centre. This is already a busy roundabout and attempt to shrink it or major delays will see huge disruption.

“Upgrades to bus stops on key routes to Shaw and Oldham town centres.

“Another grant of £675,000, also from the CRSTS, is being used to draw up plans for a scheme to improve transport in and around Mumps, specifically the Oldham Mumps Corridor. The overall cost of the Oldham Mumps scheme is set to reach £4.5m.

“Greater Manchester received a total of £1.7bn to be split across deliver rail, bus and Metrolink schemes throughout all ten boroughs in the Region”.

The Oldham Labour Cabinet Member for Transport is the Council Leader, Cllr Arooj Shah. A statement on the funding is awaited with interest. She also holds the portfolios for Strategy and Communications (read more here).

Earlier today on Neil Wilby Media an article revealed that Oldham had received £5.8 million from the Conservative government to fund a ground-breaking programme to test and refine services for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities and their families (read more here).

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Page last updated: Saturday 26th August, 2023 at 10h45

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