Daves comment: "I'm not too worried about the loss of investment SC coz I don't believe the money would have been wisely spent anyway. Call me an old cynic if you like but when local councils start saying they are going to invest millions of our pounds I start to get cold sweats!" is very close to the truth of the feelings of many...including me.

The Metrolink is bloody expensive an unreliable. The bus service is a bad joke. Extensions to the Metrolink we were promised some years ago have been cancelled, only to be brought back if the outcome was a 'Yes'.

We were going to get an extra 250 bicycle 'parking' bays spread over 25 locations = 10 per location. Not many really. Consider that most cycle-friendly country, Holland. They have parking for thousands of bicycles at the railway station at Amsterdam.

Perhaps if the public transport system was brought up to scratch first, and THEN have a referendum the result may have been different.

Dave if you're an old cynic then so am I!

BTW, I voted Yes but I didn't for one minute think it would go through.

John