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Contactless ‘tap and go’ across bus and tram just a month away as Greater Manchester achieves ambition of London-style integrated payment system

Contactless ‘tap and go’ across bus and tram just a month away as Greater Manchester achieves ambition of London-style integrated payment system

by Nikki Brown | Feb 26, 2025 | Transport

Bee Network passengers will soon be able to travel seamlessly across bus and tram knowing they’ll always pay the best fare over the day or week, as Greater Manchester gets ready to achieve its long-held ambition for an integrated, London-style transport system.  From...
Salford school creates new woodland to help borough tackle climate change

Salford school creates new woodland to help borough tackle climate change

by Nikki Brown | Feb 19, 2025 | Natural Environment

City of Trees, the Community Forest for Greater Manchester, has been working with Salford City Academy in Eccles to plant over 600 trees on the school grounds. 602 whips were planted as part of a programme of works with the school’s eco and intervention group...
Greater Manchester to receive £20.8m to fund new walking, wheeling and cycling routes

Greater Manchester to receive £20.8m to fund new walking, wheeling and cycling routes

by Nikki Brown | Feb 13, 2025 | Transport

  Greater Manchester will receive £20.8million from the Government to build more walking, wheeling and cycling routes, The funding is yet to be allocated locally, but will focus on a range of walking and wheeling projects including the strategic cycle network,...
Salford’s Chapel Street set for big changes to boost walking and cycling routes

Salford’s Chapel Street set for big changes to boost walking and cycling routes

by Nikki Brown | Feb 6, 2025 | Transport

A CGI of works planned on Chapel Street.© Manchester council One of Salford’s major roads which is usually ‘dominated’ by cars’ is set for big changes to boost walking and cycling routes around the city. A section of Chapel Street, between New Bailey Street and...
Renewable energy helping to power Greater Manchester’s ambitions to have the UK’s first carbon neutral transport network

Renewable energy helping to power Greater Manchester’s ambitions to have the UK’s first carbon neutral transport network

by Nikki Brown | Feb 5, 2025 | Transport

Greater Manchester is taking huge steps towards having the first carbon neutral public transport system in the UK by outlining plans to invest significantly in homegrown clean energy to power the Bee Network. A week on from the Government approving an investment-led...
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