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The transport hub will form part of a wider regeneration of the town centre\"AA tram pulls out of Ashton-under-Lyne Metrolink station(Image: Adam Vaughan)<\/p>\n

Ashton will be the first town in Greater Manchester to combine bus, tram and train services at a massive \u2018hub\u2019. As part of a huge overhaul of the town centre, Tameside<\/a>\u2019s civic centre will also welcome the first fully integrated Bee Network hub, according to town hall bosses.<\/p>\n

It means Metrolink<\/a>, bus, and rail services will all be connected within a 200-metre radius by a network of footpaths.<\/p>\n

While Bury<\/a> is expected to have the first operational carbon-neutral transport hub, it will only connect Metrolink and bus services. Ashton<\/a> will be the first to combine all three modes of transport.<\/p>\n

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The train station, tram stop and bus station in Ashton all act as separate hubs currently, but a progressing plan would see them all connected by new, safer and more accessible walking links.<\/p>\n

Public transport users will see their experience enhanced by integrated ticketing; more frequent services; shared arrival and departure information; as well as improved wayfinding, safety, and accessibility.<\/p>\n

\"AshtonAshton bus station(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Tameside council is actively looking for a development partner to start work in the coming months on the major town centre redevelopment project.<\/p>\n

In addition to the integrated transport hub, the project could see up to 2,400 new homes built; 12.5 hectares of commercial space created to support businesses and jobs in a vision to make Ashton a \u2018vibrant\u2019 and \u2018modern\u2019 town.<\/p>\n

The latest version of the Ashton masterplan builds on the ongoing transformation of Market Square and development of St Petersfield as part of the Ashton Mayoral Development (AMDZ).<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Ashton Bus Station site(Image: Tameside Council)<\/p>\n

The old bus station, now demolished, will also play a part in the transport hub proposal. Where the station once stood on Wellington Road will become home to a new public realm \u2013 linking the town centre to the new Bee Network hub.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for Tameside council said: \u201cThe council is dedicated to improving pedestrian links between the station and the town centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe council looks forward to collaborating with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) following the Government\u2019s recent announcement of multi-billion-pound funding for city region transport earlier this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The transport hub will form part of a wider regeneration of the town centreA tram pulls out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[1379,748,393,4884,2465,285,1026,16499,1263,8825,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-ashton-and-mossley","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-tameside","15":"tag-tameside-council","16":"tag-transport","17":"tag-transport-for-greater-manchester","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145229574032596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}