Salford ups community engagement on cycling, walking and road safety

Salford is changing the way it engages with the public around cycling and walking in order to attract more residents to get involved and help tackle key issues in the borough such as school road safety. The Salford Walking and Cycling Forum is being launched on Tuesday 13th November, with an open invitation to anyone […]

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Why now is the time to make our voices heard

Beelines feedback meeting in Chorlton library hosted by GMCC

Report from the September 2018 Manchester Cycle Forum – news and views from a newbie cycling campaigner…

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Stretford Cycleway information and action

Proposal for upgraded cycleways on Talbot Road & Stretford Road – comment by July 15

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Oxford Road cycleways – re-design information

Proposals to change – and water down – the designs for Oxford Road’s cycleways were presented to Manchester City Council’s Cycle Forum on Tuesday 28th June 2016. Instead of providing protected cycleways throughout, TfGM and MCC are now considering designs that would make the cycling route less safe and attractive at three locations: near the Palace […]

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Rusholme consultation responses

On Friday 27th February 2015, Manchester City Council announced their public consultation for the Rusholme section of the Wilmslow Road Cycleway, commonly known as “The Curry Mile”. GMCC made an initial response, encouraged people to support the scheme, and provided a simple template-based response system – thanks to all of you who used it to support […]

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A future cycle map for Greater Manchester

Proposal to create a schematic, strategic cycle route map for Greater Manchester. I’ve been a GMCC member for quite a short time (since October 2013), however at monthly meetings there was something which kept cropping up in different discussions; here, there and everywhere. A strategic map of cycle routes across Greater Manchester. At June’s GMCC […]

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Bolton Bury Greenway

Some years ago Sustrans acquired part of the trackbed of the disused Bolton-Bury railway from the former British Rail Property Board, along with leases on two major viaducts at Darcy Lever and Burnden. This was to help with, and to encourage the councils in developing a greenway between the two towns as part of the National […]

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Bridging the Woolfold Gap

New bridge and traffic-free cycle path to open in Bury, re-linking Bury and Tottington

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