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Low Carbon Bike Tour

Join us on a tour of some of Manchester’s innovative projects to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. From green walls and green tariffs to community energy and grey water use we’ll shed new light on some familiar locations as we cycle the city. The route is around 10 miles on roads and cycle paths and we’ll cycle at a leisurely pace.  Meet at 10am outside Manchester Bike Hire (41 Whitworth Street West, M1 5BD); finish 1pm Stephenson Square, M1.

Bring a lock for your bike and money for a coffee stop at the end. Organised by Love your Bike and Manchester Bike Tours.  Led by Pete Abel and Ursula Harries.

Bring your own bike or hire one for the morning.  Please book in advance with Manchester Bike Hire if you want to hire a bike for this event  – please note bike hire not included as part of Eventbrite ticket.

Tickets are £5 or £12 via Eventbrite.

Any questions contact Ursula on 07828 466999 or Pete on 07951 642858

A Google map of some of the locations is available – more examples will be added as we find them. Please note that this Bike Tour will not be visiting all of them !

 

See below for photos of some of the possible locations.

Manchester Bike Hire (start location)

Manchester Bike Hire

 

Oxford Road station Bike and Go.  and view of the Green Building

Green Building and Bike n Go sign

 

Deansgate Castlefield – Metrolink stop and green wall.

Deansgate Castlefield - Green wall

 

Pedestrian - cycle bridge over Motorway

 

Teatime Collective

Teatime Collective

 

Hulme – Henry Royce Plaque

Henry Royce Plaque

 

St John’s Sunshine

St Johns Sunshine

Cycle to church for body soul and plaent

 

Hulme Community Garden Centre

Hulme Community Garden cetnre

 

Hulme ‘Yellow Bricks’

Yellow bricks

 

Manchester Metropolitan University – Birley Fields Campus

MMU Birley Fielsd - Danger deep water

 

Whitworth Art Gallery

 

Oxford Road corridor – cycle developments

Oxford Road cycle scheme

 

Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester

George Begg Building

 

Co-operative Insurance Society tower and solar PV panels

CIS solar panels

 

New Co-operative Building

New co-op building

Manchester Cathedral

Cathedral

MadLab

MadLab

Louse Vegas

Louse Vegas

 

Stevenson Square

 

Stevenson Square and Leigh Guided busway bus

 

Other interesting low carbon developments in Greater Manchester

Bolton: Salford Road Resource Recovery Facility and Solar Farm

The £2 million solar farm can produce around 2 million kWh (2GW) of electricity every year, which is enough to power approximately 600 homes. It comprises over 18,000 individual solar panels across 6.8 acres). See Bolton News article.

18000 solar panel farm powering Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authoritys waste recycling centre in Bolton

 

United Utilities. Floating solar farm, Godley Reservoir Tameside.

See Manchester Evening News article.

United Utilities floating olar farm - gogley reservoir

 

 

Event Details

Location Manchester Bike Hire
Salford, M3 6BY
Start Saturday 17 Sep 2016 10:00am
Finish Saturday 17 Sep 2016 1:00pm


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