The footbridge vanishes
CycleGM route maps show some significant omissions when compared to the CycleCity Guide maps they have replaced.
More gaps in the maps
The new CycleGM route maps which replaced the old CycleCity Guides map show another omission on Heaton Golf course, where a right of way is missing.
Sustrans Connect2 – your vote needed !
This UK-wide project aims to improve local travel for everyday journeys in 79 communities and is competing for a grant of £50 million in the Big Lottery Fund’s Living Landmarks: The People’s Millions competition. The winner will be decided by a TV vote in December 2007. Visit www.sustransconnect2.org.uk and leave them your details so they […]
Transport & Climate Change
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.
What’s fluorescent yellow and very polite ?
Please Give Cyclists Room signs are cropping up all over the city. But there’s something of a mystery about where the signs come from.
Upper Chorlton Road
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.
Sustainable Communities Bill
Ruth Kelly, MP for Bolton West is to decide whether the Sustainable Communities Bill, supported by the CTC and many other goodly organisations, becomes law. She has been invited to a Public Meeting on 30th March 2007 at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton.The Sustainable Communities Bill aims to reverse the decline of local economic activity, […]
Irlam Lock goes missing
This is Irlam Lock, a very convenient passage for walkers and cyclists who want to cross the Manchester Ship Canal between Salford and Trafford. Unfortunately, like the Gorsey Bank Bridge, Irlam Lock hasn’t made it onto the council produced CycleGM maps. Why this is we don’t know, and the omissions don’t end here… (to be […]
All Alone
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?
Apathy at Trafford Council
Ever since Trafford MBC came under new management in 2004, residents there have noticed a distinct reluctance to do anything very much to promote cycling in the borough. The local Seamons Cycling Club and GMCC activists have been bringing this sorry state of affairs to the attention of the local press. Click here for the […]
