We recently linked up with Manchester Friends of the Earth to meet representatives of Manchester City Council to remind them who we are and who does what at GMCC. We talked about the need for a more strategic approach to promoting cycling in Manchester, rather than the somewhat piecemeal approach at the moment. One barrier […]
GMCC regularly monitors council plans. This month Dick Venes looked at ten Traffic Management Unit schemes presented by Manchester City Council Traffic Management Unit, including three related directly to cycling: a proposed new off-road cycling facility along the Princess Parkway from Wilbraham Road to Claremont Road (looks good); an extension to part of the Manchester Cycleway […]
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 […]
The GMPTE is proposing changes in parking and cycling provision for Upper Chorlton Road and Brooks’s Bar Junction. Upper Chorlton Road is used by large numbers of cyclists, particularly in the morning and afternoon peak periods and Brooks’s Bar is one of the busiest junctions in the area.
Manchester City councillor Neil Swannick, Executive Member for Planning and Environment, at the Love Your Bike launch the other week. But where were any of his ninety five fellow councillors?
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. […]
