This consultation is now closed.
Manchester City Council want to make walking, wheeling, and cycling more accessible and easier for everyone throughout the city. The strategy covers the whole city, ensuring that residents and visitors can get to where they want to go and can feel confident whilst travelling.
Purpose
We already know from our previous consultations on active travel schemes and the City Centre Transport Strategy, that one of the biggest barriers to people walking, wheeling or cycling is the perception of safety, for example whilst using roads shared with motor vehicles or crossing busy roads and junction.
Walking, wheeling and cycling - which we collectively call ‘active travel’ - can take cars off the road, improve air quality, improve the vitality of local shops and neighbourhoods and help people feel healthier. We want to make sure that we are prioritising the right measures that will deliver improvements to Manchester for all our neighbourhoods and that our residents want to see.
So we want to hear from you, because nobody understands the local network better the people who regularly use it.
Measures to support active travel can come in a range of forms, from protected space for cycling to widened pavements and safer side road crossings. With some already being put in place, as we have begun constructing protected cycle lanes, active neighbourhoods and improved crossings in some areas, and are developing plans for more. We want to make sure that what we build in the future makes sense and forms a network that can serve the whole city, and for that we need your input.
Have your say
To tackle these obstacles and to make active travel better, we need your help to develop our understanding and to plan an active travel network that works for Manchester. Click on 'Have Your Say' to complete a short survey and make your comments and suggestions on our interactive map.
Alternatively you can email your comments to walk-cycle@manchester.gov.uk