‘SAVAGE’ cuts to local bus services should be suspended immediately, says Saddleworth Parish Council following changes by First Manchester. The alterations introduced on October 27…
View More Council calls for ‘savage’ bus service cuts to be suspended after changes without consultation
GREATER Manchester is launching a major public consultation to get a wide range of views on how the city-region’s bus services should be run. People…
View More Greater Manchester launches major public consultation on how buses should be run
CAMPAIGNERS predict “expected improvements” to services when a new rail timetable is released in December. By then, platform lengthening work at Greenfield, which is Oldham’s…
View More New timetable to bring improved service to long-suffering rail users?
By Charlotte Green, Local Democracy Reporter LONG awaited plans to make Greenfield train station accessible for disabled people could be thrown in jeopardy if transport…
View More Provision of disabled access at Greenfield station still in doubt
Oldham Council has agreed a deal to bring a Lidl supermarket and a major UK hotel chain to Prince’s Gate at Oldham Mumps. The local…
View More Supermarket and hotel planned for Oldham Mumps
Metrolink’s popular Oldham town centre line celebrates its fifth anniversary this weekend with an impressive track record. Around 60,000 tram passenger journeys are being made…
View More Oldham town centre Metrolink line celebrates its first five years
A POPULAR new bus service could be deployed to help crackdown on crime in Saddleworth. But the primary function of the Saddleworth Rambler, introduced in…
View More Bus service to be used to help fight crime?
Three Oldham teenagers who repeatedly kicked a man as he lay in a pool of blood at a tram stop have been jailed. At 9.36pm…
View More Three Oldham teenagers jailed after attacking a man at a tram stop
ECO friendly students at Saddleworth School are among a select few in the final of Transport for Greater Manchester’s Clean Air Day competition – and…
View More Creative Saddleworth School pupils need your vote in final of Clean Air Day competition
DAVID Littlewood had the honour of being the first passenger on Saddleworth’s new dedicated bus service. It’s hoped thousands more will follow him in…
View More New Saddleworth Rambler bus service is now up and running