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Join us Going Car Free from 1st - 31st July 2022. (Possible)


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Calling out around the UK, are you ready for a brand new challenge? Summer’s here and the time is right for Going Car Free – a month of climate-friendly travel. Could you swap your daily commute or school run from …

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Fight for Clean Air in Greater Manchester


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take action

We’re working with the British Lung Foundation to call for action on clean air in Greater Manchester. Take our simple online action: send a letter to Andy Burnham.

Cycle Hoop

Ask your Councillors for on-street cycle storage!


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

Urgent: get your council to do more on Active Travel


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take action

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)


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take action

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 your council for cycle space during lockdown (Cycling UK)


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Temporary cycling and walking space won't only help people get their daily exercise safely, but will allow key workers to cycle to work, whether they are hospital staff, care workers, or others providing vital services. Please let your council know how much this is needed, why it's important in your area, and how easy it is to do.

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


transport

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

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

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

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)


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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!


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Add your voice to the Greater Manchester Bus Consultation.

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


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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!


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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)


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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


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take action

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


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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


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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


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take action

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.


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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.

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