Category Archives: transport

The timidity of Transport for the North (TfN)

Posted on 14 June, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

Transport for the North has released what it calls its Decarbonisation Strategy.  It is also asking for comments on it via its consultation process. Occasional contributor to this website, Peter Somerville, has provided the following commentary. The timidity of Transport … Continue reading →

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Open letter to Manchester City Council about pop-up cycle lanes

Posted on 17 June, 2020 by The Steady State Manchester team

UPDATED, 29 June. On Wednesday24 June, Extinction Rebellion Manchester erected a pop-up lane with signage and cones on the A56 Chester Rd. It bridges the 300m gap between the Trafford border, where the neighbouring council’s pop-up lane from Sale ends, … Continue reading →

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Doing Buses Differently. Our response to the consultation.

Posted on 2 January, 2020 by The Steady State Manchester team

Here is our response to the Mayor and Transport for Greater Manchester proposals for bus system reform. We strongly support these proposals as the best option available now for securing the urgent and massive shift away from private motorised transport … Continue reading →

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Better Buses in Greater Manchester.

Posted on 29 November, 2018 by The Steady State Manchester team

We are pleased to republish an article that appeared in The Big Issue North, by Pascale Robinson, coordinator of the Better Buses for Greater Manchester campaign. First though, we’d like to introduce it, in the context of our thinking on … Continue reading →

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Fearless Cities: could we have the new municipalism in Greater Manchester?

Posted on 13 August, 2018 by The Steady State Manchester team

Fearless Cities: the new municipalism. NEW!  January, 2019.  English edition of the book now available from (click->) New Internationalist.  Today it is easy enough to think that people are not interested in politics, or even that they don’t value democracy. … Continue reading →

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Burners and preservers: most Greater Manchester MPs voted for more climate change

Posted on 29 June, 2018 by The Steady State Manchester team

You’ll no doubt have seen the parliament vote on Heathrow. It indicates the appalling disregard by a majority of politicians for the threat of climate change and for sensible economic policies more broadly. Only 5 out of 26 Greater Manchester … Continue reading →

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The Open Veins of Greater Manchester

Posted on 2 June, 2015 by The Steady State Manchester team

In Greater Manchester and the North (which we now have to call the Northern Powerhouse) new investment is coming. New transport minister, Patrick McLoughlin, has confirmed that HS2 (the Y shaped high speed railway with its foot in London and … Continue reading →

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Can we end aviation dependency, and meanwhile how to spend the profits?

Posted on 16 July, 2014 by The Steady State Manchester team

  Last year Manchester City Council received what was described as a windfall of some £14m from its share of Manchester Airport Group. The other Greater Manchester councils have received a smaller, proportionate share. This year the figure is £16.23m … Continue reading →

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