Updated plans to improve public #transport and active travel in #Heywood town centre, Greater #Manchester, have been revealed following feedback gathered in spring 2024. TfGM and #Rochdale Council have refined proposals to include upgraded pedestrian and cycle crossings, wider footpaths, improved bus stops, junction upgrades, and a better car park on Hill Street. Key changes include removing the proposed bus gate on Lance Corporal Stephen Shaw MC Way, scrapping the one-way system on Hartley Street, and adding signal upgrades to ease traffic flow. These improvements aim to reduce congestion, speed up bus journeys, and make walking, wheeling, and cycling safer as part of the wider Bee Network, focusing on the 471 bus route between Rochdale and Bury. Residents and businesses are encouraged to give their views on the updated proposals between 7 April and 18 May, with public drop-in sessions at Heywood Sports Village on 23 April (9am–12pm) and 6 May (5pm–8pm).
https://news.tfgm.com/press-releases/d9dee93d-e610-4b76-99bd-79f26e89e165/updated-plans-to-improve-public-transport-and-active-travel-in-heywood-town-centre-revealed

This, from @workersliberty, is good on Workers' Party of Britain leader and now Rochdale MP, George Galloway.

#GeorgeGalloway #Galloway #Rochdale

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2024-02-20/who-george-galloway

It's fun watching the Graun getting its cycling lycras in a twist over #Rochdale

https://www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/01/what-does-george-galloway-rochdale-byelection-win-mean-for-the-other-parties

Highish turnout in #Rochdale, nearly 40% for a by-election for an MP for maybe 8 months? Is it almost as if there are actual options to 'business as usual'?
#Rochdale #UKpolitics

He's not without his faults obviously, but is he really so much worse than the rest of them?

Anyway, it's Galloday isn't it?

#Rochdale tomorrow lads, lasses and all those of other definitions. This could be hilarious in terms of the press and broadcast media reaction.

The fact that there are still #Labour figures flailing to defend their conduct over the #Rochdale by election, is just risible. You fought for days to protect Azhar Ali, don't try and come over all pious now you've switched tactic.

And obv Gorgeous George is a wanker but then aren't they all, and wouldn't it be so completely fitting if he found his place back among them in Parliament?
(Disclaimer: gave him the finger once upon a time as he went cruising past Bartlett Park in his open-topped battle bus)
#Rochdale

Well that's gonna be quite a lot of words for various #Labour right wing figures to eat, as Azhar Ali is suspended and his party gives up on the #Rochdale by election.

Labour people really need to stop waving Galloway's name about in an effort to distract from the scandalous revelations sinking Azhar Ali's campaign.

It fools no one, and it's embarrassing.

So who are the Rochdale candidates who aren't a racist, an antisemite, some dude who went off sexting a 16 year old girl, a random nutter or in some other way an unpalatable weirdo?

Asking for some voters.

It's all beginning to look a bit hairy for #Labour in #Rochdale, as Azhar Ali is caught out saying stuff even George Galloway would probably steer clear of.

Surely #Starmer has to drop him?

#RochdaleByElection #UKLabour

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13069671/Outrage-Labour-candidate-claims-Israel-deliberately-allowed-1-400-citizens-massacred-October-7-order-green-light-invade-Gaza.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

Good God. It's as though #Labour had run Maajid Nawaz (or rather, Maajid a few years ago) in #Rochdale, in the hope of #Muslim votes.

#RochdaleByElection

https://5pillarsuk.com/2024/02/08/the-troubling-backstory-of-labour-rochdale-candidate-azhar-ali/