Further boost for Greater Manchester's sustainable transport ambitions

GMCVO and the Greater Manchester Community Transport Forum are supporting a bid to put sustainable travel at the heart of Greater Manchester’s blueprint for a low carbon economy.
After a successful ‘key component’ bid for nearly £5 million of LSTF funding for the Greater Manchester Commuter Cycling Project, the ambitions of Transport for Greater Manchester and their partners have had a further boost through an invitation from the Government to move ahead and work with them to develop a revised business case for their plans.
The proposals look towards helping more people chose to cycle and walk to work, using new technologies to offer electronic travel cards and deliver real-time travel information to ‘smart’ phones, and building the capacity of local community transport to develop access to work services from isolated and deprived communities.
Greater Manchester is bidding for up to £50 million over five years to help take this vision forward.