Good news on some transport issues at a meeting today. Eaglesliffe Station (near where we live) is getting a revamp, with 77 much needed new parking spaces, a ticket office and some proper facilities. Great, after years of campaigning by Lib Dem Eaglescliffe Councillors for improvements.
Thornaby station is at long last gettng its horrible old bridge is going at last. Delays by Network Rail have meant that a grant has been lost, but owing to the lie of the land the ramps could have been too long anyway, so the access out of the station to Mandale Road is being upgraded and made disabled friendly. I was campaigning for something to be done in 2001 - only 10 years I suppose, even with modern transport things move slowly !
No progress on Billingham station being made.
It is the Transporter Bridge's 100th anniversary this year. There is a consultation and information youo might want to look at and take part in. We need to look at ways of making it clear that the Transporter Bridge is not just a Middlesbrough Bridge - it does come over to Stockton ! Ways of celebrating this interesting and almost unique (the only other one in the country is in Newport) piece of engineering. The first time I came near it I nearly drove into the river - we had only lived in the area a few months, and how was I to know the bridge over the river was not a bridge in the usual sense !
With more aplomb I was privileged to be going over as Mayor many years later as part of a Fairtrade publicity event !
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