General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Peter unless they can find a way of diverting traffic away from Ashton then no matter how much money is spent on the town then this problem will not go away.They cannot divert traffic at Stubshaw Cross because there is only two roads to the A580 via Golborne one has a low bridge and the other has a weight limit ,Plus badly increasing the traffic through Golborne They could go through the fields and connect Stubshaw to the M6 slip road at Landgate going over the main railway line . This would cost millions and take years to complete A few weeks ago the gas company were working on Bolton road (A58) for a week the traffic was queueing for miles in every direction. This week due to a major fire the road has got traffic lights again (electric) power cut plus no internet and queues again. When I drove past at 9-30pm last night at least they were working on the problem