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Campaigning to make walking, wheeling and cycling the natural choice for journeys in Greater Manchester.

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walkriderochdale.org.uk
The #CWIS3 backlash continues - multiple organisations petitioning for clearer targets, strategy and funding, brining #ActiveTravel in line with driving & rail

If you’ve not done so, respond to the consultation @cyclinguk.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk
Active travel groups call for clear targets on walking and cycling in England
Exclusive: Groups including British Cycling call for active travel strategy to be put on equal footing with road and rail
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
walkridegm.org.uk
We've signed a letter to the Government calling for clear targets in the upcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3 with 50+ other groups across the country
adamtranter.bsky.social Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: 50+ transport and health groups have written to the Government calling for clear targets in the upcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3, as well as a comprehensive plan for a national active travel network, matching the long-term strategic focus given to roads.
Active travel groups call for clear targets on walking and cycling in England Exclusive: Groups including British Cycling call for active travel strategy to be put on equal footing with road and rail Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3 (CWIS3) Dear Secretary of State, Active travel directly advances all five of the Government’s missions — improving health, creating opportunity, delivering safer streets, driving economic growth and meeting our decarbonisation commitments. To realise this potential, the forthcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3 (CWIS3) must move from good intentions to a clear, long-term, fully deliverable national plan comparable to other strategic transport programmes. Currently, CWIS3’s proposed objectives, “ensuring people are safe to travel actively” and “ensuring people feel it is an easy choice”, are open to interpretation and not measurable. List of signatories
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
walkridegm.org.uk
The 2025 Walk Ride GM Awards celebrated council, local volunteer and community efforts to progress active travel across Greater Manchester.
Man speaking next to a TV screen
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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walkriderochdale.org.uk
Good interview between @LauraLaker.bsky.social and @ChristianWolmar.bsky.social about #CWIS3 @callingallstations.bsky.social
The deadline for the consultation is 15 Dec - if #ActiveTravel is important to you, please respond ASAP using the @cyclinguk.bsky.social guidance @walkridegm.org.uk
Calling All Stations with Christian Wolmar, Episode 4, Season 4 - Cogitamus
Christian and co-presenter Mark Walker discuss the full range of transport-related items in the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Budget statement issued on 26 November 2025 [1:38].  With the UK…
cogitamus.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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tomflood.bsky.social
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
walkridegm.org.uk
Coronation Street-themed Kidical Mass, anyone?
awalkerinla.bsky.social Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 4d
I wrote about the Netflix CicLAvia buyout and how the Branding of Everything™ during LA's megaevent era has now become our reality — but it's less about the unavoidable commercialism that's already seeped into our major events, and more about who sets the standards that align with our values
The upside down
The spectacle that unfolded along four miles of Melrose on the Sunday before Thanksgiving was a portal into LA's age of activations
www.torched.la
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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mandiesg.bsky.social
Fab night at the @walkridegm.org.uk awards tonight, with Cllr Anthony. Manchester won Best Council and Best Scheme (Deansgate)..amazing. Thanks to brilliant officers ...sorry Cllr Tracey couldn't be there .
And thanks to WalkRideChorlton for the peleton home along the Floop..
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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owlernook.bsky.social
Tonight!
walkridegm.org.uk Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 19d
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 🎉
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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walkriderochdale.org.uk
Manchester next? @walkridegm.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
walkridegm.org.uk
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.
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
walkridegm.org.uk
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
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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owlernook.bsky.social
For all three questions I will select Strongly Disagree. I will detail the points above.

You can fill in the consultation (see link) or email [email protected]

Include your name and postcode.

If you live nearby, please also email your councillors with your objections.

Thank you!
A34MRN Scheme 7 - Bruntwood Park to Cheadle Royal - Stockport Metropolitan Borough Citizen Space - Citizen Space
Find and participate in consultations run by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and NHS Stockport CCG
consultation.stockport.gov.uk
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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owlernook.bsky.social
The consultation closes TODAY. And I’ll be responding as follows. If you agree with my points, it would be great if you could also respond.
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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owlernook.bsky.social
Back in 2020, Stockport Council consulted on a walking and cycling scheme along (or occasionally parallel to) the A34. It was a mixed bag, but local campaigners supported it with several caveats.

It’s back for another consultation – because part of the scheme is being dropped.
A detail of the A34 MRN scheme plan.
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
walkridegm.org.uk
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 Lights Up Marshall photo Ride out of All Saints Park for Lights Up
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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gillmphoto.bsky.social
A wonderful “Lights Up 2025” #glowride Disco On Wheels cycle in Manchester this evening. Many parks & quiet routes feel unsafe to women & girls in the dark nights. About 200 cyclists with music+lights. Empowering ✊🚦💡🚲
Thanks organisers & ride leaders.
@walkridegm.org.uk
@stationsouth.bsky.social
A group of people on bikes with lots of lights wait for a ride to set off as dusk descends. Trees and tall buildings can be seen either side of them. A group of people on bikes with lots of lights stare up at the SODA Digital arts building in Manchester. It is ablaze with colourful stripes of yellow and black #BeeNetwork 🐝 . Spectacular against the blue dusky night sky. A poster listing the timings for the Lights Up - Disco on Wheels night ride in Manchester An A4 black and white handprint showing a lady on a bike kicking her legs out and pointing with a smile up to the sky. She is surrounded by stars, a crescent moon and shooting stars.
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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walkriderochdale.org.uk
The #Oxford #CongestionCharge is already having a positive effect because its political leaders had the bravery to see it through. The evidence is that this works & make public transport more attractive. All councils should have powers to implement congestion charging @walkridegm.org.uk
Cllr Dr Alex Powell (@apowelllaw.bsky.social)
It is perhaps indicative of how effectively the congestion charge is working in Oxford City that my bus this morning had to hold at 4 different stops to regularise the service to the timetable. It's…
bsky.app
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
walkridegm.org.uk
*manifesting a world where this much money is spent advertising bikes and walking*
adamtranter.bsky.social Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · Oct 21
Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?

Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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walkriderochdale.org.uk
Seven years into #MadeToMove very little of this vision has been delivered. This will go down as a huge missed opportunity to make travel cheaper and improve health and air quality in #GreaterManchester.

We call upon the city’s politicians to restore the vision #BeeNetwork @walkridegm.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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timmorton2.bsky.social
Oh, oh my @cyclinguk.bsky.social @rideleicester.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk
bikeportland.org BikePortland @bikeportland.org · Oct 21
At several locations across the city where bike bus routes cross busy intersections, the Portland Bureau of Transportation has programmed traffic signals with a custom, bike bus-friendly timing plan that is activated by a longer push of the beg button.

(!!!)

bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...
PBOT gives bike bus leaders traffic signal superpowers
You could think of this as bike bus signal priority.
bikeportland.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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harryhamishgray.bsky.social
Last year I realised something that has changed my perspective on advocacy

At @walkridegm.org.uk we noticed social media wasn’t having a meaningful impact on active travel delivery, so we shifted our focus to more constructive spaces
October 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?
Cartoon of a single-detached housing subdivision with a road jammed with cars
October 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
walkridegm.org.uk
📯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
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Nice blog here from @walkridegm.org.uk on nitrogen dioxide levels in Greater Manchester.

www.walkridegm.org.uk/2025/09/03/l...
Understanding Nitrogen Dioxide Levels in GM - Walk Ride GM
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) is a harmful pollutant formed mainly from the burning of fossil fuels in vehicles and industrial processes. It can harm our lungs through inflaming airways and worsen respirator...
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October 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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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!
October 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM