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Ann @agvbergin.net · 3d

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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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 1d

Yes in Manchester - but you're right, unfortunately they've not been able to do it this year. Their Instagram is a good place for updates if you've not already followed them there: www.instagram.com/kidicalmassmcr

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 2d

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 2d

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 · 2d

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 👇🏻

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Lib Dem Friends of Cycling 🔶🚲 @libdemcycling.org.uk · 4d

Good evidence of the effect of building safe #ActiveTravel infrastructure - aside from the health and environmental benefits, it builds in transport resilience

Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 5d

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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GillMPhoto @gillmphoto.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant news. Having decent cycle lanes gives another option for how to travel. Hopefully some of those who cycled their journey will do it again as it was convenient, healthy and fun 🚲 🙌 #cycling #activetravel

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 5d

And that was only northbound too - combined with southbound journeys it was a record of 7,527!

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 5d

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

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 9d

Plenty of research gathered on the subject by @cyclinguk.bsky.social:

Six reasons to build cycle lanes

Separated cycle lanes are good for business, reduce congestion, are fantastic value for money, get more people cycling and are what the public wants. Head of campaigns, Duncan Dollimore sets out the o...

www.cyclinguk.org

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 9d

If you scroll aaaall the way to the bottom they've managed to put in *one* positive comment.

Please can we have a bit more balance and research next time, @manchestereveningnews.co.uk? It's a well-evidenced fact that schemes like this are good for businesses and residents.

Walk Ride Stockport @walkridestocky.bsky.social · 9d

We weren't approached for comment on this, so we'll do it here.

'This is going to massively impact our business - it's life changing'

Work to build a new cycling track is causing concern in part of Stockport.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Walk Ride Stockport @walkridestocky.bsky.social · 16d

Our friends at What If? in Edgeley have an exciting double-event this Thursday, 25 September!

Stockport's very own e-bike hub library is having a launch event, where you can try out an e-bike, and book a month-long loan.

Climate Cuts Film Event: E- Bike Taster Rides with Cycling UK

Launching at What if? - Stockport's very own e-bike hub library to try a new way to get around - test one at the Climate Cuts Film Event!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 19d

A good news story for a dreary Friday! What a wonderful bunch of humans.

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 19d

TREK BATH IS THE BEST BIKE SHOP IN THE WORLD. Claire recognised my bike on the way in to work and said “that’s not meant to be there” and TOOK IT INTO THE SHOP!! They called me and refused any sort of finders fee. I do not deserve people like this.

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Merseyside Cycling Campaign @merseycyclists.bsky.social · 24d

Get your headphones on and go for walk with @walkridegm.org.uk's excellent podcast Moving Up North, to learn more about what effective #ActiveTravel campaigning looks like🚲🚶🏾‍♀️🧑‍🦽 🛴 www.walkridegm.org.uk/2024/11/01/m...

Moving Up North - Walk Ride GM

The northern perspective on walking, wheeling and cycling. Harry and Will digest each month’s policy and delivery news into a friendly, easily accessible round-up. Walk Ride GM campaigns to make walk...

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24d

Read more about our demands for Safe Active Travel for Women & Girls in Greater Manchester via our blog. www.walkridegm.org.uk/2025/08/27/s...

Safe Active Travel for Women & Girls in GM - Walk Ride GM

A recent study in Greater Manchester found 68% of women compared to 20% of men reported feeling unsafe going out alone after dark. Women are more likely to cite concerns about road danger and the lack...

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24d

At Walk Ride GM, we’ve had enough. If you would like to join Walk Ride GM’s working group to campaign on this issue, please contact us at [email protected].

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24d

Evidence shows more women cycle when our highways and public spaces are designed with women’s perspectives and lifestyles at the forefront, including ‘trip-chaining’ between various destinations.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Build it and give ‘em bikes, and they will come: The effects of cycling infrastructure and bike-sharing system in Lisbon

Reliable and detailed data are required for the evaluation of pro-bike investments. Longitudinal studies that compare the cycling levels before and af…

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24d

The risk of incidents like this is increased by a ‘cycle network’ reliant on shared-use canal towpaths & narrow, poorly lit routes out of sight of roads.

Women should be safe everywhere – and deserve to have the option of wide pavements & protected cycleways on roads like Hyde Road & Ashton New Rd.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24d

Language inciting hate and violence towards people cycling is normalised – language which would be completely unacceptable to use about other groups.

The attack on Klaudia comes only months after disgusting comments made by local MP Andrew Gwynne.

www.walkridegm.org.uk/2025/02/23/w...

Walk Ride GM Sends Invitation to Andrew Gwynne MP - Walk Ride GM

Walk Ride GM has today invited the independent MP for Gorton and Denton, Andrew Gwynne, to join a cycle ride around his constituency. The invitation states: Dear Mr Gwynne, We were concerned to read y...

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 24d

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 Rochdale @walkriderochdale.org.uk · 28d

Meanwhile in Greater Manchester...

(It does look like Oxford is going to be the British test case for what happens when a city goes all in for #ActiveTravel) @walkridegm.org.uk @cycloxoxford.bsky.social

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 28d

Oxford is to get a congestion charge of £5 per car per day, starting this autumn. Charges will be levied for driving past one of six camera sites. The decision, intended to accelerate bus services and encourage cycling/walking, was taken at an Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting this morning.

Buses on the High Street, Oxford. Photo by Roger Close.

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Walk Ride Rochdale @walkriderochdale.org.uk · 29d

We somehow missed this consultation for the #HeywoodTriangle - this looks like a really easy win diverting through traffic away from a school and park. Please write to your councillors if you’re near there to support. @walkridegm.org.uk

Hopwood Triangle Heywood - Rochdale Borough Council - Citizen Space

Welcome to the Rochdale Borough Council Consultation Hub. This site will help you find and participate in consultations that interest you.

consultations.rochdale.gov.uk

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 29d

Pavement were designed to provide access for people, and that's the norm we'd like to return to. The wider it is, the more people can walk & wheel (& possibly cycle, depending on the context) along it - not, 'the wider it is, the more car can be stored on it'.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 29d

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 · 29d

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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