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Join Cycle to Work Day 2019

Tomorrow, Thursday 8 August is the annual Cycle to Work Day. Whether you are dusting off the old wheels or looking to make your commute more reliable and healthy, now is the time to get started, alongside thousands of others from the Greater Manchester area. Courtesy of the #cycletoworkday team, there are prizes to be […]

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Cycling Events

Stockport Community Groups Encouraged to Support Tour of Britain

Community groups in Stockport have the opportunity to apply for funding via the council to provide a warm welcome to cyclists competing in the Tour of Britain. The fund has been introduced to help with materials for banners and flags to support the competitors on Saturday 14 September and can help to raise the profile […]

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Cycling Infrastructure Walking

Will We Ever See the Chorlton Cycleway?

UPDATE (07/08/19): Councillors are due to convene during August and September to discuss the revised plans. In the meantime, keep writing to your local councillors to outline the importance of this scheme for active travel and healthy living in the area.   In the week when TFGM boasted of its new CYCLOPS junction design, the […]

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Review: Chorlton Great Get Together

On the morning of Sunday 23 June, all seemed normal on Wilbraham Road, a busy thoroughfare going through the heart of Chorlton. Traffic was busy, as usual, and a handful of pedestrians were getting breakfast in the cafes and restaurants close to the Four Banks junction. At 11am that changed. Members of Walk Ride Chorlton […]

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Events

Review: The Great Ancoats Street Swindle

This evening, hundreds of people attended a group walk and ride through the Northern Quarter and Ancoats to protest the Great Ancoats Street scheme revealed by Manchester City Council earlier this month. Those involved in the event included campaigners from Walk Ride GM, alongside people living, working and regularly moving through the area who require […]