Greater Manchester launches ‘hard-hitting’ Safer Roads campaign
The real-life impact of traffic collisions is laid bare in a hard-hitting campaign featuring bereaved parents and emergency services staff. As part of the ‘It’s Time’ campaign, the Safer Roads Partnership is calling on motorists to think differently about how they drive and the journeys they are going to make, before getting behind the wheel. On average, 681 people have been killed or seriously injured on […]
Stockport bus station set to close as part of multi-million pound redevelopment
Stockport bus station is set to close to passengers from Sunday 29 August as part of a major redevelopment scheme which will deliver a new £120m transport interchange and help to transform the town centre. The project, being undertaken by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Stockport Council, working with Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) […]
New £800,000 business support package launched to help boost sustainable travel in Manchester
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has launched a new £800,000 funding package and interactive web portal to help businesses and employers embed sustainable travel behaviours, head-off a car-led recovery and build back better from the pandemic. While the numbers of trips on public transport dropped significantly during lockdown – and still remain well below ‘normal’ levels – the numbers of trips by car remained consistently high and are now close to pre-pandemic levels, said TfGM. If that trend continues, and more […]
Greater Manchester to create 50 School Streets
Greater Manchester (GM) has secured £500,000 to deliver 50 School Streets to help transform the school run, enable healthier lifestyles and tackle air pollution, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced. The city region-wide initiative will enable tens of thousands of Greater Manchester children to breathe cleaner air on the school run – with at […]
Burnham launches ambitious transport vision for Manchester
The Newly re-elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has put a transport revolution across Greater Manchester at the centre of plans for his second term. In advance of the first meeting of the Mayor’s new Bee Network Delivery Board, he has unveiled a raft of measures to improve Greater Manchester’s transport system, making it […]
TfGM launched tram aware campaign after several accidents
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has launched a new campaign to ensure motorists are ‘tram aware’ as traffic levels start to increase. There were 122 road traffic collisions involving motorists (77), cyclists (10) or pedestrians (35) on the Metrolink network between April 2019 and March 2021. While the number of collisions remains very small compared […]
AECOM wins place on TfGM’s Professional Services framework
AECOM has announced it has won a place on Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM’s) Transport Professional Services (TPS) framework. The four-year framework will be used by TfGM and the ten local authorities in Greater Manchester to deliver transport projects and programmes across the region. Projects delivered through the framework will support Greater Manchester’s Right Mix […]
TfGM celebrates its birthday with a look back on a “decade of achievement”
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has celebrated its tenth birthday with a look back on what it’s calling ten years of achievement and investment in the region. The start of April marked exactly ten years since the current organisation was born, after a reform of local government in Greater Manchester granted the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) more powers and led to a rebranding. […]
Manchester to be first city region outside of London to take buses under local control
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has taken the decision to take control of buses in the biggest shake-up to Greater Manchester’s transport network in over 30 years, as part of plans for a joined-up and truly passenger-focused transport network. The ‘landmark’ decision will mean Greater Manchester will be the first city-region outside London […]
Half of respondents to Greater Manchester survey open to walking and cycling more post-pandemic
A Greater Manchester COVID-19 recovery survey has found almost half (47%) of respondents want to keep on walking and cycling more often once the pandemic is over after positive experiences on bike and foot during lockdown. Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) network intelligence data has also shown that cycle trips are up 25% on the […]
