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Ask your Councillors for on-street cycle storage!

transport
take action
10th Jun 2020

Read on to find out how to get secure cycle storage on your street.

Urgent: get your council to do more on Active Travel

transport
take action
24th May 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down, wreaking havoc on health and jobs. As a result, many of us are spending far more time at home – prompting traffic levels to drop, along with air pollution and carbon emissions. Restrictions on travel and movement mean roads are now being used more by walkers and cyclists.

Petition: Make streets safe for social distancing & save lives (Playing Out)

transport
take action
20th May 2020

All of us – including children and vulnerable people – are having to frequently step into the road to follow the 2m rule, as most pavements are too narrow to pass safely. We’re also being encouraged to walk and cycle more as lockdown eases.

Ask the Government to give the green light to “implied zebras”

transport
take action
1st May 2020

Crossing roads can be a lottery at the best of times, never mind if you have limited vision or mobility. But there’s a simple way to make our neighbourhoods safer for everyone - implied zebra crossings.

Ask your council to reallocate road space for walking (Living Streets)

transport
23rd Apr 2020

Under the current Covid-19 guidance, it is vital that, when we take our permitted daily exercise outside, we are able to do it safely. It is also important that keyworkers are able to travel safely.

Show support for the Transport Select Committee’s report asking for the Government to change the law on pavement parking (Guide Dogs)

transport
12th Feb 2020

When cars are parked on pavements, people with a vision impairment may have to risk their lives by walking into the road just to get by them.

Scrap dangerous ‘smart motorways’ (Petition – Change.org)

transport
8th Feb 2020

The BBC’s Panorama programme found that there have been twenty times more near-misses on the M25 since the introduction of so-called ‘smart motorways’.

Add your name: A child’s right to clean air shouldn’t be a postcode lottery (The Air Team)

transport
16th Jan 2020

In the UK's biggest cities, air pollution is dangerously high – and it’s putting our children’s health at risk.

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Demand clean air now (British Heart Foundation)

transport
13th Jan 2020

Each year, up to 11,000 UK heart and circulatory disease deaths are attributable to air pollution. We need your help to change this.

Show your support in the buses consultation!

transport
22nd Dec 2019

Add your voice to the Greater Manchester Bus Consultation.

To: Manchester City Council Prioritise People not Cars. Please Pedestrianise Deansgate

transport
5th Sep 2019

Call on the council to go the whole hog and close it to traffic* all year round and make it the living, breathing, vibrant street it wants to be!

Public service announcement: TfGM would like to know your thoughts about cycling in Greater Manchester…. even if you don’t cycle they still want to hear from you!

transport
8th Aug 2019

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds are interested to know your thoughts about cycling, and, if you cycle, how often you do so, what influences your decisions to cycle, and how cycling affects your lifestyle.

To: Manchester City Council – Build a Green, Community Space, not a CAR PARK (38 Degrees)

transport
6th Aug 2019

We the undersigned petition Manchester City Council to transform the old Central Retail Park into a 10 acre Green, Community space, not a 440 space car park.

Dirty Air Hits the Vulnerable Hardest

The GM Clean Air Conversation

transport
take action
19th Jun 2019

Speak up for Healthy Air People in Greater Manchester can comment on proposals for a Clean Air Plan. This is an opportunity to demand strong action on pollution from transport and get the healthy air our city deserves. You can …

Interested in free bus journeys? You could win £500 by completing a survey

transport
30th Apr 2019

Later this year the Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, plans to introduce free bus travel for young people in the Greater Manchester area.

Save the Stockport Metroshuttle

transport
9th Feb 2019

Stockport Council is planning to scrap the free Metroshuttle bus service in Stockport town centre. 

Chorlton Cycling and Walking Way (Manchester City Council)

Support the Chorlton Cycling and Walking Route

transport
take action
3rd Dec 2018

Manchester City Council are leading a consultation on a 5km, £13.4 million proposed cycling and walking route from Chorlton to Manchester. You can show your support with this simple email action, created by Love Your Bike.

Time is running out to save Wales’ Amazon rainforest.

transport
2nd Dec 2018

The Welsh Government wants to bulldoze through the Gwent Levels – Wales’ equivalent of the Amazon rainforest for their diversity of wildlife – to build a new 14-mile-long six-lane motorway. Gwent Wildlife Trust urgently needs your help to stop their destruction.

Sign the petition for Better Buses in Greater Manchester

transport
11th Nov 2018

Right now, bus companies do what they like and it’s afree market wild west scenario. We need public control.

Call for sustainable transport and healthy air for the city centre!

transport
take action
8th Oct 2018

Transport for Greater Manchester are seeking views on the development of the city centre. They are working with Manchester City Council and Salford City Council. You have until Wednesday 17th October to give your views on how you find getting …

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