Excellent result and congratulations to all who turned out to vote YES. When I stood as Independent Mayor candidate in Doncaster in 2009 my election platform was to make streets safer, that resulted in a two year promise being at last honoured by the Council. I stood to force that to happen and I would love to do the same in Salford to get the back log of problems corrected. It is time for change and I will help in any way to get a better deal for Salford people instead of local people paying one more penny to silly ideas like the £20million BBC that got just 26 local jobs.