The government has announced £20million to fund improvements to cycling infrastructure across England. The news came on the same day that the government health advisory body, the National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence (NICE), issued a report urging people to walk and cycle for short journeys. Click here to read the Department for Transport […]
The last of four “Love Cycling, Go Dutch” conferences was held in Manchester on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th November 2012. On Monday GMCC campaigners joined local highways engineers and transport consultants at a workshop day held at TfGM’s offices, with visits to two local highways, the A56/A57 roundabout near Deansgate, and a section […]
Transport for Greater Manchester is seeking your help with a cycling survey. The survey is part of a bid for funding to improve cycling and walking facilities across Greater Manchester.
Car traffic in the UK has rise in all but two years since 1958, along with congestion and pollution. Campaigners are running a Tour de TIF bike race to highlight the need for a YES vote to congestion charging and the Transport Innovation Fund in Greater Manchester.
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 […]
Dick Venes went to Manchester City Council’s TIF-bid seminar. GMCC raised the issue of bikes on Metrolink and lack of detail on cycling measures. We were told that funding cannot be moved from one spending area to another. GMCC will champion cycling as an essential congestion reduction strategy, and ensure that whatever funds are allocated […]
Road transport accounts for a fifth of the UK’s entire carbon emmissions. This public meeting will discuss how road stransport can stop causing climate change and help instead to tackle it.
The front page of yesterday’s Independent shows just why Manchester’s Our Future Transport proposals are so important. Some time ago we pointed out that when it came to leaving the car at home, public transport in Manchester currently offers much less value for money, and the only economic alternative to driving is to travel on […]
A couple of weeks back, the M.E.N. carried the large and rather inaccurate front page headline: Congestion charging You say NO. Inaccurate because on the same page was the sideline: But 59 per cent back move – if it brings cash for Metrolink. Since bringing cash for Metrolink is exactly what’s on offer, that sounds […]
