THE opening of a new £53 million road has been hailed as one of the biggest days in the history of a village that for decades has had to put up with constant heavy traffic.
The Poynton Relief Road, which runs from Woodford in Stockport to Adlington near Macclesfield, will cut out the need for traffic travelling between east Cheshire and south Manchester to pass through the centre of Poynton.
The 3.5km (2.2 miles) long road named Roy Chadwick Way after the designer of the wartime Avro Lancaster bomber has a dedicated walking and three-meter-wide cycling path.
Ahead of the road opening to traffic today, hundreds of walkers and cyclists came to be among the first to use it.
Andy Gower, who brought his two grandchildren along, said: "It's history - and it will be a much bigger thing for them than for me so I just wanted to bring them down and be part of it."
This story is from the March 06, 2023 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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