Manchester unemployment to get on its bike with TfGM jobseeker cycle giveaway
Mancunian jobseekers will be handed free bikes to help them to get back on the job ladder by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
Mancunian jobseekers will be handed free bikes to help them to get back on the job ladder by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
More than 75% of people in Britain have ‘overwhelmingly confirmed’ that more money should be invested in cycling, according to the biggest survey into cycling habits in the UK.
An extra 16.5 km of cycle routes are to be created in Salford as part of the city’s drive to encourage people to use greener modes of transport.
Six new cycle hubs have been opened at Greater Manchester railway stations, doubling the number of bike parking spaces in the region, as councilors push for Manchester to become a ‘flagship Cycling City’.
Manchester blogger and Lord of the Rings fan, Will O’Hara, has spotted links between Metrolink and Middle-earth during his morning commute across Manchester.
Manchester’s commuters will soon have to find something new to moan about, as Transport for Greater Manchester have announced that normal Metorlink services will resume at the end of the month.
Six local residents have been chosen to become poster stars for the Life on 2 Wheels campaign, which will be launched at Sky Ride Manchester.
Sale schoolkids have won a competition designed to get children from across Manchester teaching others about the impact of travel on our environment.
Manchester City Council has approved the additional funding which is made up of £1.69m from the council’s own clean city fund alongside £6.34m of money the authority successfully applied for from the Department for Transport.
Local Liberal Democrats are demanding that secret information on how bus companies are performing should be made accessible to the public by Transport for Greater Manchester.
A gang of men and women who threw rocks at a tram in Chorlton, forcing passengers to take cover and causing serious damage shortly before another was derailed, are wanted by Greater Manchester Police.
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