Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign

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Both the Manchester Evening News and Channel M gave a lot of space to GMCC’s latest Commuter Challange between a cyclist, a train passenger, a bus rider and a motorist commuting from Heaton Chapel to Manchester Town Hall in the morning rush hour last Tuesday.

The results were

First:
bicycle
20 minutes

Second:
train
35 minutes

Third:
car
43 minutes

Fourth:
bus
52 [...]

The last Friday of August will see the latest in our series of sociable, fun, leisurely and law-abiding critical commutes into central Manchester.

Cycle commuters gathered in Manchester’s Albert Square following the “leap day” critical commute.
© Daniel Cadden
They had a simple message…
© Daniel Cadden
Critical commute takes place on the last Friday of the month. It is an ideal way to meet other cyclists and, if you are not already a regular cycle commuter, try it out in [...]

Manchester Evening News 27/9/2007

Manchester’s Critical Commute happens on the last Friday of every month. The next one is Friday 29 June 2007.
The idea is to make cycling visible to drivers and demonstrate that it’s a viable way to get around. If you haven’t cycled for a while, it’s a chance to enjoy safety in numbers and learn from [...]

Another week and another GMCC letter in the local press, ever if this one is a bit down-market, but then so is the paper it’s printed in. The reference to Alzheimer’s may come from here.

There’ll be a Critical Commute on Friday 27th October at 8.15am starting outside the Withington Library. From here we’ll ride up Oxford Road to the Central Library, at which point there’ll be a press launch of GMCC’s own high visibility gilet.
It’s linked to winter approaching and the clocks going back, days getting duller and evenings [...]

Manchester Friends of the Earth’s Love Your Bike campaign kicked off today with a 7am mass commute from Withington Library.

Then a photoshoot at the the Mancunian Way roundabout.

Lots of riders turned up.
The campaign will run for the next few months. Look out for posters like this one on billboards and backs of buses.

Manchester councils can be so eager to create new cycling routes - so as to be seen to be Doing Something To Encourage Cycling - that they completely forget the ones they already have. So it is with the Manchester Airport Orbital Cycle Route, which for part of the year turns into bramble-choked obstacle course.

And [...]

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