The places where Metrolink was supposed to be by 2023

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It's over four years since Andy Burnham announced Bolton, Stockport and Wigan were next in line to be connected to the Metrolink network.

The Greater Manchester mayor said back in 2019 that he hoped to see the three boroughs with trams by 2022. “It is a bugbear for people who live in boroughs that don’t have the tram network,” Mr Burnham said back in January 2019 . “I would like it to go to Bolton, to Wigan, to Stockport and build out this system and I would like to agree a plan to take more control of the suburban rail system.” READ MORE Flash EncroChat dealer suddenly went quiet on cops after they made a big discovery READ MORE 'He was only taken away from the house 45 minutes earlier and now I was being told he was dead' Although Bolton, Wigan and Stockport all have train stations and bus services that can take their residents towards Manchester city centre, transport bosses want to provide a more diverse and comprehensive range of options for commuters - and futureproof sustainable travel within and between boroughs as the population grows.

Options being developed in the next five years.pdf So what's happening with the extension scheme now? Here, the M.E.N looks at what we know about the progress of the plans laid out in Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM)’s five-year Transport Delivery Plan 2021-26.

Under the plan, a tram service could be delivered to Bolton via Radcliffe. Currently a feasibility study is earmarked to see if this could work.