Velocity 2025

Our vision to transform cycling in Greater Manchester – help us make it happen

A cycling revolution is within Greater Manchester's grasp. A revolution that shows we’re as serious about cycling as cities such as Berlin, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

But we need your support to make this vision a reality. Pledge your support right now by clicking the link on this page.
Greater Manchester is bidding for up to £20 million of government investment, to be spent over two years, to make cycling safer and easier.

Most of this investment will be in a series of more continental-style, largely segregated, cycle routes within the heart of the conurbation, together with the delivery of a number of cycle and ride stations.
And to get more people on their bikes using these new facilities, we’ll deliver a programme of promotion and engagement designed to trigger a generational shift that has the potential to ‘mainstream’ cycling.
If approved, our bid would unlock further investment in cycling across Greater Manchester from public and private partners over a 10 year period, and would build on almost £40 million of DfT investment that we’ve already secured from the DfT’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund, including new cycling facilities and support services.

With significant future funding secured, our ambition is to deliver improvements and investment which radically raise the levels of cycling in Greater Manchester by 2025.

We need funding from government to kick-start this dramatic transformation, but to win this funding we need to show that we have the wider community on board.

And that’s where you can help.

You can show your support for our plans – for major investment in cycling in Greater Manchester – by simply clicking on the pledge link

http://cycling.tfgm.com/velocity/

I thought it was a new rim out.

^ Or a new lo-pro standard.

Manchester is perfect for cycling...
Not sure about the spending on all that segregation. Cheaper easier things to do now rather than wait for 12 years

The problem with Manchester (city centre) is all the ridiculous round-the-houses one-way/no entry/no left turn/no right turn business - I'm sure it works awesome for stopping cars fucking the whole thing up but for a cyclist, complying with all the instructions practically negates the benefits of being on a bike. Instead of "segregated" routes they should, where possible, get rid of a lane of cars and put in a bikes-only contraflow. And fix all the fucking potholes.

^Trufax
Just need to get rid of the one way system near Picadilly and the bus station
And calm the routes into the centre (like Ashton Old Road, the A665, Bury new road and the A6) which are urban Motorways. Not great to commute to town on

Road surface is my one major complaint about manchester.