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Letter to Cllr Bev Craig

Dear Cllr Bev Craig, We wanted to write to you today, in the wake of what can only be described as a remarkable set of election results for Manchester. The Green wave seen across the city is indicative of something we have felt during our campaign work when engaging with communities on School Streets, pavement […]

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Freelance Fundraiser Role

Walk Ride GM is recruiting a freelance fundraiser to help the organisation as we transition into becoming a charity. Walk Ride GM campaigns for safer streets across Greater Manchester, supports a growing network of local groups, and pushes decision-makers to deliver active travel infrastructure that works for communities. The organisation wants to expand – reaching […]

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Walk Ride GM Sends Invitation to Andrew Gwynne MP

Walk Ride GM has today invited the independent MP for Gorton and Denton, Andrew Gwynne, to join a cycle ride around his constituency. The invitation states: Dear Mr Gwynne, We were concerned to read your comments about your constituent’s pleas for a safer network for cycling. We are a Greater Manchester-wide campaigning organisation with supporters […]

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Cycling Politics

Cycling and the city region: policy ambitions and the realities of delivery in GM

Thomas van Laake, doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester First published in Royal Town Planning Institute Transformative change takes time. Nearly seven years on from the launch of the agenda-setting ‘Made to Move’ strategy, which set out Greater Manchester’s target of becoming ‘the very first city region [with] a fully joined up cycling and […]

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Moving Up North

The northern perspective on walking, wheeling and cycling.  Harry and Will digest each month’s policy and delivery news into a friendly, easily accessible round-up. Walk Ride GM campaigns to make walking, wheeling and cycling the natural choice for journeys across Greater Manchester.  We’ve created a podcast to explore in more detail how the work we […]