Active travel award nominations for 2026 are now open!
Author: Cazz Ward
Figures for the latest Nitrogen Dioxide (NOâ‚‚) for Greater Manchester have just come out for 2025. Just a reminder that NOâ‚‚ is a harmful pollutant formed mainly from the burning of fossil fuels in vehicles and industrial processes. It can harm our lungs through inflaming airways and worsen respiratory conditions such as asthma. The ten […]
Walk Ride GM has launched an ambitious new pilot project to establish the UK’s first coordinated network of walking and cycling buses for school travel. The project will test a scalable model for helping more children travel to school actively, safely and sustainably. The pilot will initially focus on Manchester and Trafford, working with local […]
Why the Carrington Relief Road undermines Greater Manchester’s sustainable transport goals
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Active Travel Awards 2025
The 2025 Walk Ride GM Awards celebrated council, local volunteer and community efforts to progress active travel across Greater Manchester.
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) is a harmful pollutant formed mainly from the burning of fossil fuels in vehicles and industrial processes. It can harm our lungs through inflaming airways and worsen respiratory conditions such as asthma. The ten district councils that represent the Greater Manchester Combined Authority are directed by the government to reduce roadside levels […]
Walk Ride GM and Mums for Lungs held the first ever School Street and Beyond Conference on 16 May in Manchester focused on supporting schools starting on their journey towards increasing active travel journeys to school. It was a glorious sunny day and we kicked off the event with a real-life ‘School Street’ outside St […]
This week, the region’s active transport community came together in Levenshulme to celebrate an impactful year of making Greater Manchester a safer city for all to travel. Despite the dark winter night, it was standing room only at Station South as nominees and activists came together to reflect on all the progress made through 2024 […]
We were delighted to hear that Oldham Council are leading the way as the first local authority in Greater Manchester to go live last week with an ANPR controlled School Street at Hey with Zion Primary School and St Edwards RC Primary School. But this is currently a one off and, so far, further delivery […]