M6 Smart Motorway Extension
(AKA automated money collecting machine)
First of all the residents are not against the M6 Smart Motorway Extension what they would like to achieve is that the pollution that is coming from the motorway in noise and air quality exceeding European Union Safety levels and world health organisations recommendations are addressed at the time of the new construction.
Latest M6 Developments below
Road could be covered with tunnels to cut pollution
Yes you read that right the wonderful highways agency are spending a 100 million pounds to trial options of reducing pollution. Why are they spending 100 milion on this feasibility study? yet we can’t have a noise absorbing fence along this section of motorway and it...
M6 noise fence meeting results
We had a very productive meeting yesterday the 13th july with the representatives from Tilon the fence manufacturing company that Highways England gave the details of after the previous meeting. The picture shows a small sample of the noise reducing fence that they...
Email to Fiona Bruce
Residents met with Mr Andrew Brown from Highways England to discuss ongoing noise and pollution problems
Conifers along the M6, it’s a NO from Carillion Kier
As some of you will know the question was raised could the contractors plant a line of conifers along the M6 to help control sound pollution and given that the Nox levels are rising both on oak tree lane and Northwich road shown by the data collected and that...
Fiona Bruce Correspondence
We have recently received these two letters from Fiona Bruce MP in relation to the smart motorway works and the continuing noise and pollution in the Cranage neighborhood! Letter 1 Letter 2 The all party commons comiittee for transport has stated that all smart...
Residents need to write to Chris Grayling MP
With the recent shake up in the government, you have probably noticed that Chris Grayling MP is now heading up the Transport department, were asking all residents who are affected by the constant noise and pollution to write letters to him so he knows the local...
Additional Noise Barriers for Cranage, sadly not
In the week that they can approve the somewhat absurb cost of replacing the Trident nuclear missile system which will come to at least £205bn, far more than previously estimated, according to figures drawn up by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). (but that's...
Sandbach Chronicle Update on Article
Further to the article in the sandbach chronicle last week, its content was not entirely correct, The meeting referred to was called by highways England for Cranage parish councillors to attend to be given an update on progress of the scheme, the general public were...
Scrap dangerous motorway hard shoulder plans, MPs warn
A new report today tells MP's to scrap the plan to turn hard shoulders in to a permanent motorway lane! Plans to convert more hard shoulders into permanent driving lanes to ease motorway congestion should be scrapped, a Commons committee has said. The government...
M6 Motorway Pollution update Fiona Bruce
Further to the recent report that was published recently about the meeting held by highways and cranage parish council members. We have requested Fiona Bruce to lobby the minister responsible again on residents behalf, which she agreed to do. Recently we contacted...
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