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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 15/08/2026

CALL TO ACTION: Tameside Council has announced a new consultation for improvements to the A560 that include wider footpaths, resurfaced roads and footpaths, improved pedestrian crossings, safer junctions, better bus stops, and new separated cycle lanes.

A CGI showing an impression of the proposals for a road. There are silhouettes of people walking, wheeling, sitting and cycling around. The road has trees, wildflower strips, houses, and cycle lanes running alongside, and a zebra crossing across the road in the near distance. There is a summery sky above. Text states: Raise your voice for better quality of life along the A560 (Hattersley) - and ensure the scheme isn't scrapped. Consultation runs from 17 August to 18 September.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 15/08/2026

This is another big opportunity to improve our region, so don't sit on this while objectors steal the narrative. Seize the opportunity while it’s here and add your voice to positive change for our health, wellbeing and quality of life. www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/08/15/s...

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 06/08/2026

Levenshulme, Old Trafford, Chorlton or Partington, We need you! As part of the buzz project, we have received a bunch of telraam sensors which will monitor the effects of our walking and cycling busses across 4 areas. Sign up to take part: telraam.net/en/candidate...

Join our citizen science network and help us understand how walking and cycling buses are changing neighbourhoods across Greater Manchester.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 29/07/2026

Our digital hustings, Transport for a Healthy Economy continues! A question from Harry Gray, a member of our Steering Group, on road safety in Greater Manchester Answered by @geraldinecoggins.bsky.social

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 27/07/2026

Our digital hustings continues with a question from Andy Hay in Whalley Range on Starling Bikes.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24/07/2026

Our digital hustings questions are now live to all candidates! The first to respond is @geraldinecoggins.bsky.social on a question from Adam Thomson on pavement parking. @cleancitiescampaign.org @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @mcrfoe.bsky.social @ramblers.org.uk @lowtrafficfuture.bsky.social

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 17/07/2026

Not one transport question at last week's GM Mayor's hustings. Nothing on the Bee Network, clean air, walking or cycling - despite transport being one of the biggest parts of the job. This is your chance to change that 🧵

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 30/06/2026

Andy Burnham is about to become PM. What does that mean for active travel? New from Moving Up North: the inside account of how Burnham really operates. Ten years of hustings, hot seats, wins and climbdowns, from people who were in the room. A window into how he'll govern next.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24/06/2026

We're seeking new members for our lively & friendly steering group - ideally a few specific skillsets: - Accountancy / Finances - Fundraising - Charity / Third Sector Governance If this might be you - or someone you know - please complete the expression of interest form forms.gle/NTDZoK7aCQLX...

Street scene with a group of 20 or so people standing with bicycles near to a wooden planter that includes a sign saying 'road open to' followed by pictures of children playing, scooting, a wheelchair user, and a bicycle. Red brick walls and green trees line the sides of the street.

Overlaid text boxes state: Join the Walk Ride GM Steering Group to help make change. Do you have skills in: Accountancy/Finances, Fundraising, or Charity/Third Sector Governance? To get involved, send us your expression of interest via the link in the text by 19 July

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 17/06/2026

It's been a joy to work with Tameside Council to document this brilliant school street scheme in Mossley. The important messages for these projects are always the ones shared by the children we speak to. Great to see the cross-party political support for these schemes, too!

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 20/05/2026

Boombox Barry! The man, the myth, the legend - spills all on bike and scooter hire in Manchester.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 20/05/2026

A letter to the leader of Manchester City Council Bev Craig sent after May's remarkable local election results. The full letter can be read here: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/05/20/l...

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 19/05/2026

Here's the situation. You're in a rush to catch a train at Oxford Road. You're already late and only have a minute or so to lock up. You push the bike into the stand and the lock fails - you can't seem to get the front lock into place. You miss the train. Seems familiar?

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 13/04/2026

🚦 Tip 3: Ask for something simple and achievable, then build on it if they're elected.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 13/04/2026

🤝 Tip 2: Think about long-term relationship – councillors are humans!

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 13/04/2026

Local elections are three weeks away! Now is a great time to open up a conversation on active travel with your future councillors – here's @slowbikeiain.bsky.social's top tips. ⚡️ Tip 1: When communicating with candidates, keep it quick.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 28/03/2026

Choose Choice. Don't wake up in 6 months to learn that the proposal to give people genuine transport choice along this North Manchester corridor has cancelled in favour of car-choked roads and unreliable bus times. Have your say by 29 March and Choose Choice: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/03/24/s...

CGI showing the proposed street layout for Oldham Road looking south towards the Northern Quarter. There are bus lanes and cycle lanes added alongside high quality footways

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24/03/2026

Do you want to see more investment in North Manchester's health? Read more via our blog and have your say by Sunday 29 March to avoid missing out: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/03/24/s...

CGI showing the proposed street layout for Oldham Road showing a proposed Cyclops style junction. There are bus lanes and cycle lanes added alongside high quality footways.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 18/03/2026

We're recruiting a Walking and Cycling Bus Coordinator and Administrator 📯📯📯 Join our team! Apply now lnkd.in/ekhTE7br

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 04/02/2026

NEW FOR 2026... We're going to start running online Skill Share events on a range of different topics, starting with a general intro to Walk Ride GM (and active travel campaigning) featuring our very own @harryhamishgray.bsky.social. 🎟️ Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/walkr...

Walk Ride GM Skill Share. Intro to Walk Ride GM, 8pm, Tue 24th Feb, online.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 03/02/2026

Meanwhile, people in Greater Manchester are being killed and seriously injured at an increasing rate. Driver convenience is apparently more important than keeping people alive.

Graph showing a number of killed and seriously injured casualties, and fatal and life changing injured casualties, in Greater Manchester. KSI increased 28.1% year on year, and FLCI increased 29.5% year on year.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 21/01/2026

And just like that, 2000 e bikes roll out across Birmingham In the 7 years we've had Beryl running our bike here we've barely lifted above 1000 bikes. @andyburnham.bsky.social we are being short changed.

Lime to run West Midlands cycle and e-scooter hire
Published: Tuesday 20 Jan 2026

More than 2,000 new bikes and e-scooters are set to hit the streets this April following the appointment of Lime as the region’s latest cycle hire provider.

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has selected Lime, a global leader in micromobility (the collective term for bikes and scooters), to take on management of the official regional hire scheme following a competitive bidding process.

The agreement means that for the first time the scheme will operate at no cost to the taxpayer. Until now cycle hire has cost £1.4m a year to run.

Lime is introducing a new fare structure but has committed to maintain existing overall price levels for the first two years to make sure sustainable travel remains affordable.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 27/12/2025

Simple yet ingenious electric bike hire in Caen, France. Bikes are locked together like a trolley rack. Stops theft and vandalism. If only Bee Network and @andyburnham.bsky.social would let us have such a clever and useful system

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

The biggest cheer was saved for Best Campaign Success. The Walk Ride GM-led campaign to retain the direct cycling link through the @manmetuni.bsky.social campus shows the importance of active citizenship, as 100s raised their voices in reply to a proposed development of student halls on Cavendish St

Two people posing with an award in front of a TV screen

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

Walk Ride Tameside was named Best Community/Campaign Group for their work building bridges with @tamesidecouncil.bsky.social & proposing the Tameside Trails greenways network. And the much-loved & tireless campaigner Owler Nook was crowned People’s Active Travel Champion for 2025.

Man standing speaking next to a TV screen

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

Greater Manchester’s Bicycle Mayor Belinda Everett, nominated in two categories, took home the Best Activation Event award for her work organising the hugely impactful Black Unity Bike Ride, which has announced it will return for the next few years at least.

Person speaking and holding an award next to a TV screen

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

With an eye on building a genuinely connected network of walking, wheeling and cycling routes, @traffordcouncil.bsky.social’s ambitious proposals to transform Seymour Grove received the Best Proposed Scheme award.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

@rochdalecouncil.bsky.social’s advancements over the year were rewarded with the Most Improved Council prize – acknowledging their commitment to continuing with the Castleton scheme for the greater good despite noises from a vocal minority of objectors.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

Marking exciting times for the core of the region, Manchester City Council claimed two titles – for the completed scheme to reallocate road space and curtail car use on Deansgate, and as Best Council for the ever-growing pipeline and clear ambitions for the near future.

Six people posing for the photo in front of a TV screen

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

Manchester, Rochdale & Trafford Councils were all prize-winners at Walk Ride GM’s 2nd annual awards event. Across an energising ceremony, half of the categories saw the region’s 10 boroughs battling it out for accolades including the hotly contested Most Improved & Best Council.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 07/12/2025

The 2025 Walk Ride GM Awards celebrated council, local volunteer and community efforts to progress active travel across Greater Manchester.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 18/11/2025

Have you booked your ticket for our annual awards night yet? Don't miss your chance to have some fun and celebrate our hard-earned successes over the past year 🎉

Station South Cycle Cafe filled with people applauding at an awards ceremony

Walk Ride GM Celebration and Awards Evening 2025, Tuesday 2nd December, 6pm, Station South, Levenshulme, M19 3NP. Image shows the walking and cycling crossing at the bottom of Deansgate, in a painterly style inside an ornate gold frame.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 10/11/2025

The Walk Ride GM Awards return! Grab your seat now for the most anticipated night of the year 🎊

Walk Ride GM Celebration and Awards 2025 Tues 2nd Dec, 6pm
Station South Levenshulme M19 3NP

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 08/11/2025

Today we rode to demand safer streets for women cycling in winter. Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.

Cllr Tracey Rawlins speaking to the crowd about Manchester's commitment to safer streets for people walking, wheeling and cycling.

RIDES FOR WOMEN flag on the back of Anna's lit up bike

Ride out of All Saints Park for Lights Up

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 14/10/2025

So here's your opportunity - it's never been more important to have your say via the Trafford Council website. You can do so here: www.trafford.gov.uk/residents/tr...

Parents and school children walking and cycling on a road near a school

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 14/10/2025

This could be a key strategic connection between existing routes, responding positively to TfGM's 'Streets for All' Design Guide. But currently, as a pavement parking hotbed, it is riddled with obstacles that prevent its use by people.

Map of the Old Trafford area showing existing active travel routes in orange and yellow and a proposed Seymour Grove route in green

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 14/10/2025

📯Huge Opportunity for Public Space Improvement Do you want to see a joined-up #BeeNetwork in #GreaterManchester? Then have your say on this impressive proposal for Seymour Grove. It's ambitious on paper, but local Councillors need confidence that there's public backing to approve it.

A computer generated image of a street scene with small text stating Option 1 - One-way cycle lanes on each side - view south on Seymour Grove at Junction with Chatham Road

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 06/10/2025

Want to know the story behind the UK's biggest @kidicalmass.bsky.social? Layla Siebert shares her story on how she started Kidical Mass in our latest podcast 👇🏻

Layla leading Kidical Mass from the front with kids all over!

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 03/10/2025

Bus strike mania has hit Manchester This week Oxford Road saw the most cyclists in a single day EVER Nearly 4000 people used the route on Monday

Record numbers choose cycling on Oxford Road during Manchester bus strike

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 14/09/2025

Walk Ride GM was horrified by the recent news of a hate crime against Klaudia Mitura on the Ashton Canal. There is no excuse for violence, including this example of male violence against women. Incidents like this are made more likely by a widespread press and media bias against cyclists. 🧵

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 09/09/2025

The Living Streets website says not to include them.

Uploaded photos should be your own, or you should have permission from the copyright holder to upload them. Photos should not include any personal details, images or number plates and images containing such details may be removed. In uploading an image, you are granting Living Streets a royalty free licence to store, copy and publish the image and derivative works created from the image. Living Streets may use your image in communications to support this campaign.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 09/09/2025

Fed up with pavement parking? We're supporting @livingstreets.bsky.social to show where pavements are used as car parks to the detriment of all who walk/wheel. Go & take photos (make sure you cover over reg numbers) & upload them to the Living Streets map: lnkd.in/ekEmPn3q Contribute by 22 Nov

A red car covering most of a pavement on a residential street. There are other cars covering the pavement further along the road.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 06/09/2025

Thanks for joining us for our social at the gorgeous Low Four Studio! We shared the latest successes and updates, and gave away some brand new badges and stickers. Keep your eyes peeled for more chances to get your hands on them... 👀

A large group of people mingling at Low Four

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 04/09/2025

CYCLE ROUTE SAVED! 🎉🎉🎉 Following our campaign, Manchester Met and Unite have backed down on plans to block bike access on Cavendish Road, saving a major cycle route between Hulme and the city centre. Thanks to councillors Lee Glover, Lee-Ann Igbon and Annette Wright for all your support ❤️

A group of people with bikes standing in front of Cambridge Halls, Manchester, with signs saying Cycle Route Saved and We Did It.

A group of people cycling through the bike lane at Cambridge Halls, Manchester.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 03/09/2025

At Walk Ride GM, we’re demanding safe active travel for women and girls in Greater Manchester. Research by Lime found that 100% of female survey respondents want improvements aimed at personal safety. Read more here: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2025/08/27/s...

A banner stating 'Women Out + About' raised above a few bicycles that are leaning against wooden deck seating. In the background there are some trees.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 28/08/2025

HUGE win for Walk Ride GM! Manchester Met has agreed to revise the plans that would have blocked Cavendish Street to cyclists. A massive thanks to everyone who spoke up with us. Meet us at All Saints Park at 5pm next Thurs (4th Sep) to toast our success and take a celebratory photo. 🥂🚲

Drake meme. Drake reacts positively to a map showing a straight cycle route along Cavendish Street, connecting Stretford Road with Grosvenor Street, but negatively to a map showing that route diverted around Boundary Lane West.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 27/08/2025

🚨 URGENT ASK to help us push micromobility forwards in Greater Manchester 🛴 Your local authority has until 21st October 2025 to apply for an e-scooter trial. We believe e-scooters are a crucial part of the shift away from cars, so PLEASE email your councillor and ask them to apply. 1/3

A woman riding a Lime hire e-scooter along a bike lane in a US city

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 20/08/2025

The plans now retain access with a 3-3.5m width bidirectional cycle lane along the length of the new development on Cavendish Street. The plans do not address further works on the junction with Cambridge Street.

Plans can be found here https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/200074/planning/5865/planning_permission

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