Author: Sarah Rowe

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Consultation

Spend five minutes improving GM’s plan for safer roads

Walk Ride GM

Last year, Greater Manchester committed to a Vision Zero approach: a strategy to eliminate road death and serious injury by 2040 by taking a more systematic approach to tackling road danger. A consultation on the draft action plan closes on 27th June and we need you to fill it in.  Too many people are killed […]

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Bee Network Cycling

Bikes on trams? About time!

A report from over 20 years ago by the Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign calling for bikes to be allowed on trams, and the Walk Ride GM Bee Network Manifesto from 2023 making the same ask.
A report from over 20 years ago by the Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign calling for bikes to be allowed on trams, and the Walk Ride GM Bee Network Manifesto from 2023 making the same ask.

20 years after the Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign first campaigned for bikes to be allowed on the Metrolink, and a year after Andy Burnham promised it would happen at a Walk Ride event, TfGM is finally starting a pilot to investigate how it could work. During the pilot, volunteers will be accompanied on the tram […]