Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign

The latest (November) issue of the GMCC’s Cycle Carriage News (pdf) has now been published. It includes:

Bikes On Trams - Down Under (Austrialian cycle carriage
Metrolink’s New Trams - Built for Bikes
Article on Velostrail by Dave Holladay

The latest (October) issue of the GMCC’s Cycle Carriage News (pdf) has now been published. It includes:

GMCC Writes to the GMITA
Increased Capacity on Metrolink - Barrier to Cycle Carriage removed
Cycle Ramps to Inaccessible Platforms

The latest (September) issue of the GMCC’s Cycle Carriage News (pdf) has now been published. It includes:

Edinburgh Allows Bikes On Trams (beating Manchester)
Oldham Loop Line Replacement Buses - Cyclists Not Considered
Altrincham Line Gets More Useless Lockers

The latest (August) issue of the GMCC’s Cycle Carriage News (pdf) has now been published. It includes:

1 Million Residents Missing Out On Metrolink Expansion
Oldham Loop Line Replacement Buses - Will Cyclists Lose Out?
Cycle Carriage On UK Buses

The latest (July) issue of the GMCC’s Cycle Carriage News (pdf) has now been published. It includes:

Manchester’s New Trams - Can Carry Bikes
Cycle Carriage on Trams - 19th Century Style
Focus on Flexity Swift Trams

The GMCC has been campaigning for over 17 years to get cycling fully integrated with public transport, consistently fighting the intransigence and “Don’t care about cyclists” attitude of our public transport operators and Passenger Transport Executive.
Read about it in the latest Cycle Carriage News (.pdf).

CTC, Cyclenation and the Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign present the…
“Cycling as a solution” conference
Saturday 30th May, 10am – 5pm, Manchester

Key speakers and workshops on how increasing cycling levels can help local communities and councils respond positively to key challenges such as: climate change; cycling and the economy; style/well-being; beating traffic congestion; and achieving a more [...]

This graph from the Government’s Statistics office shows traffic in the UK rising in all but two of the last fifty years, sometimes by as much as 8%. Road traffic levels are now eight times what they were in 1952. This will continue. Car ownership in the UK is currently only just over half that [...]

The deadline for responses to the public consultation (but not the referendum) on the TIF (Transport Innovation Fund) bid, for the introduction of congestion charging after substantial investment in public transport enhancements, closes on Friday, 10th October. Make sure you respond to have your say, on something which seems to have stirred passions on both [...]

Taking your bike on public transport and cycling from where you get off to your final destination beats the car almost every time in terms of door-to-door speed and convenience, no matter how long the journey. This is the reason so many cities around the world have public transport systems that take bikes.
But on the [...]