Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign

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

Metrolink’s Cycle Carriage Guidelines
An Interview with Mr. Purdy, GMPTE Metrolink Director
Bicycles and “Tandems” on Swiss Light Rail

On Friday 29th May and Saturday 30th May, GMCC hosted two national cycle campaigning conferences.
We have now uploaded all the presentations used to support the speakers on each day, for you to download.
Below is a list of speakers and presentation titles; click the link to download the slides.
If you have any problems with the downloads, [...]

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).

by John Franklin, Cycling Skills & Safety Consultant
Cycling Futures seminar, Manchester, 29th May 2009
What is a bicycle?
The bicycle’s a simple machine, that we all know. But familiarity doesn’t always mean we know much about something as we might. So with cycle planning. We may all think we know what’s needed to ride a bike, but [...]