Hold the front page!

Has this post been split from a different topic or did I miss something? That seems like a very confident statement to make, depending on your estimation of "in the coming years". This route has been an "aspiration" of Stockport MBC for well over a decade, constantly on their wish lists, but they never make enough noise about it for it to actually go ahead.
Do you plan to make sure it
will happen? Then my polling card is ready. But otherwise it sounds like spouting a random, long-standing transport policy just in time for May. What are your views on the far more feasible tram-train plans for Marple's existing line to Manchester, which genuinely could (in fact,
must) happen in the coming years?