Jon Snow, Cycling UK’s President, meets Andy Burnham MP ahead of the first Manchester Metro Mayoral elections taking place in May 2017, to seek his views and plans for cycling and walking across Greater Manchester if he gets elected.
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On-street hire schemes are great, because they can go a long way towards normalising cycling, simply by having kinds of people you don't normally see cycling on practical bikes. However the risk is without some changes on the ground first that it wouldn't be a success in Manchester.
It's not easy to find a route straight across the city centre in Manchester, and more direct and attractive routes across the ring road would be needed to create a sustainable flow of journeys, rather than continually empty stations in one area and full up in others. In London there is a perennially full station at Euston road because the road gets lairy there but it's close enough to walk to the trains – however people setting off from the there use closer bikes. Over a much smaller area with an elevated highway and trams, there's going to be a much greater challenge to get this right.
As soon as you take a bike out of the velodrome, it would get nicked in manchester.
4% how much money as been spent on this minority