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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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Bee Network Campaigns

GM’s active travel champions applauded at Walk Ride GM Awards 2024

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 […]

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Cycling Events

Notice to members of Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign (GMCC)

Whilst we have no affiliation with GMCC, they’ve asked us to share the below notice which may be of interest to anyone who was involved.

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Cycling Events

Recapping our mini conference

A guest blog by Thomas van Laake, Graeme Sherriff and Harry Gray. We asked them to share their reflections on our recent conference, which focussed on cycling advocacy and policymaking in Greater Manchester. Now nearly seven years past the launch of the ambitious ‘Made to Move’ strategy, cycling policy in Greater Manchester is at another […]

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Campaigns

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 […]

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Bee Network School Streets

Next steps for School Streets in GM

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 […]

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Bee Network Campaigns Cycling Volunteer Walking

Want to help improve places in GM? Join our steering group!

– Do you want to see a greater shift to walking, wheeling or cycling across Greater Manchester?– Do you wish to get more involved in actively making change?– Do you want to be part of a group of like minds?– Do you have connections and skills that you would like to use to help make […]

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Bee Network Cycling Infrastructure

Micromobility and the city region

Evaluating ways to promote active travel for ‘last mile’ journeys across Greater Manchester Guest blog by Thomas van Laake, Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Manchester Introduction The terms ‘micromobility’ and ‘bike sharing’ are generally used to refer to the provision of bikes and scooters for hire in public space. As fleets of e-scooters and […]

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Cycling Infrastructure Walking

Meeting the RNIB

Harry & Will from Walk Ride visited Chorlton with representatives from RNIB, to learn about the lived experience of visually impaired people using new infrastructure We met outside the Royal Oak in Chorlton, next to one of Manchester’s newest CYCLOPS (Cycle Optimised Protected Signals) junctions. Terri and Erik from RNIB, both of whom have a […]

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Consultation

Spend five minutes improving GM’s plan for safer roads

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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Cycling Politics Walking

General Election 2024 Questionnaire

It’s election season once again, and this time we are looking at the choices of candidates standing for election as MP in the Greater Manchester region on 4 July. Walk Ride GM groups have prepared the following questions and sent them to all candidates across Greater Manchester. We will add their replies to this page […]

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Cycling Infrastructure

Why I swapped my car for a bike

“I guess I’m a cyclist now” is how Gareth describes his transformation from driving by default to cycling every day. On a recent drive into town, stuck in bumper-to-bumper queues and desperate for the toilet, he watched someone sail past the traffic in Chorlton’s newly built cycling lanes. That’s when he knew there had to […]