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Manchester Cycle Hub 2.png250 bike parking places to be added to railway stations in Greater Manchester
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Northern Rail have successfully bid for £636,000 from the Department for Transport (DfT) to improve cycle parking facilities at local railway stations. In total, 250 new bike parking places will be added across nine different stations.
Nick Fisher, TfGM’s Customer Operations Director, said:
“We are very happy to secure funding that will help to improve facilities for cyclists that fit in with our long-term vision to make Greater Manchester a cycle city.
“Better cycle parking facilities will allow more people to use bikes to get to key destinations, as well as to cycle as part of a longer journey. It also helps people to build exercise into their daily routine. These improvements will help many more people to access rail services and allow them to travel further afield.”
Covered stands will be installed at Gorton, Heaton Chapel, Hyde Central, Marple, Mills Hill, and Trafford Park stations, while enclosed secure cycle hubs are to be added at Cheadle Hulme and Deansgate. The Fairfield Street entrance of Piccadilly station will also benefit from new covered bike racks.
Ian Joslin, area director for Network Rail, said he hoped that the money would encourage more people to travel to and from stations by bike and said that the aim now was to install the new facilities as soon as possible.
TfGM is aiming to increase cycling to 10 per cent of all journeys by 2025. Earlier in the month, we reported how an extra £22 million had been secured via Cycle City Ambition funding to spend on cycling infrastructure and there are now plans to build 100km of cycle lanes around the city.
The flagship project is along Wilmslow Road, a route which carries an estimated 2,000 cyclists a day. Plans are for fully kerb-protected cycle lanes on both sides of the street. Major cycle path projects are also planned for Manchester Airport, Prestwich, Cheetham Hill, Salford and Stockport as well as alongside the Bridgewater and Ashton Canals.
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Inhumane system that now will be getting even worse.
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Nothing says "welcoming environment" like uniformed thugs, umm I mean "security patrols " roaming the area.
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That is class news. Super bikes and vision. Bet there will be no stand at the Taiwan bike show next year! Big luck to all the team
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But still no secure bike parking at Manchester Piccadilly.
And apparently it's because of terrorists 
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In 2013 I was told
But weirdly they can have a great big carpark, Brompton Dock and so on.
And before anyone mentions the "City Tower Cycle Hub", I'd like to ride into town to get a train at the weekend on an occasional basis, so an expensive subscription based service which closes at 5pm is naff all use when I arrive back late on a Sunday night.
TFGM have just spent £19 million redeveloping Altrincham Interchange. There are no segregated cycle lanes into the station. Not one. There aren't even any painted cycle lanes. The pedestrianised shopping centre nearby has great big "no cycling" signs at each end.
There's parking for 50 bicycles though, so that's nice.
Great if you work at the station.
Pile of old bollocks if you want to take your bike on a train...
There is a secure bike shelter at Oxford Road station that was installed last summer. It looks great but has, inexplicably, sat unused since it was built.
This may have something to do with it not been actually made operational and it being permanently locked.
Another example of grant money quickly being spent and then then just left to rot.
The only bike related info I can find about that station is from the National Rail page:
At present the nearest Bike & Go bikes are more than 7 miles away in Altrincham. The work rate at this particular station doesn't exactly fill one with confidence.
Ditto Bolton there are two enclosed cycle storage sheds each with a capacity of around 50 bikes which have been sitting around for about the last 18 months. Somewhere along the line you or I (as a tax payer or rail user) are paying for this waste of money.
Ditto Bolton there are two enclosed cycle storage sheds each with a capacity of around 50 bikes which have been sitting around for about the last 18 months. Somewhere along the line you or I (as a tax payer or rail user) are paying for this waste of money.
Ditto Bolton there are two enclosed cycle storage sheds each with a capacity of around 50 bikes which have been sitting around for about the last 18 months. Somewhere along the line you or I (as a tax payer or rail user) are paying for this waste of money.
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