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CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY TO 2040 SUMMARY

March 2021

Getting from A to Bee 2 “Our vision is for a well-connected,

CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY zero-carbon city centre at the of the North, offering our residents, employees and visitors a great place to , live and visit.” Foreword

Manchester city centre, incorporating areas of central , is at the heart of Greater and is one of the world’s most renowned areas for hospitality, culture, sport and arts. It is also the North’s leading business, and education centre. With the potential for 100,000 more jobs and 50,000 more homes in the city centre in the next 20 years, bold decisions need to be made about how transport, streets and spaces are designed and used in the future. Our ambitious strategy for travel in and around this centre from now up to 2040 recognises how important our transport choices are to making sure people can move freely in and around the city centre. The strategy envisions a well connected, zero-carbon centre at the heart of the North, offering residents, workers and visitors a great place to live, work and play, and getting the right balance between the different ways of travelling. We consulted on a draft City Centre Transport Strategy in autumn 2020 and our strategy reflects the thousands of voices who’ve contributed to previous discussions and consultations — city centre residents, 3 commuters, and business and interest groups — about how they want to travel into and around ’s capital, and how they would CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY shape the next phase of its investment in rail, , , cycling, pedestrian facilities and public spaces. What’s emerged is a strategy that boldly reflects the strongest calls: more, pleasant space for people walking and cycling; cleaner, greener more sustainable travel options that keep the air clean and cut carbon; less congestion; useful, reliable public transport that connects us; parking and deliveries that don’t choke our streets, and clever use of technology that makes all this happen. We’ve taken great care, in this final strategy, to try to make sure that the ambitions you see here are right for the people and businesses using our city centres. Successful and vibrant cities need high-quality transport connections and we feel this strategy will achieve this.

Councillor Councillor Roger Jones Executive Member for Environment, Executive Support Planning and Transport Member for Transport City centre area

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Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2020 Introduction and vision

The city centre of Manchester (incorporating areas of central Salford) lies at the heart of a major European city-region of almost three million people. It is the most important commercial, retail and entertainment location in outside of , and is the main engine for Greater Manchester’s economy. It is to a fast-growing residential population and the largest student community in Europe. Our previous City Centre Transport Strategy was adopted in 2010 and has guided the delivery of many transformative schemes, including: — Metrolink’s Second City Crossing; — Oxford Road and cycle enhancements; — The redevelopment of St Peter’s Square into a high-quality pedestrian environment; and — The Chord scheme, which provides a direct rail connection between Piccadilly and Victoria stations. Our aim is to be a zero-carbon city-region by 2038. Shaped by this strategy, transport and growth in the city centre will play a big part in our journey to 5 zero-carbon and tackling the climate emergency.

In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, our plans focus on how the city centre CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY can lead a strong, sustainable, healthy and inclusive recovery, taking the achievements made since 2010 to the next level. This strategy supports Manchester’s Economic Recovery and Investment Plan. By 2040, there is potential for 100,000 more jobs and 50,000 more homes in the city centre. Much of this is driven by planned growth accounted for within Manchester and Salford’s Local Plans, and “Places for Everyone” a Joint Development Plan Document. This includes providing the right locations for homes and creating jobs to ensure the future prosperity of the city-region, whilst The City Centre Transport prioritising development of brownfield Strategy has been shaped sites and reducing unnecessary green belt by extensive engagement, release. Planning for the future city centre including a focused listening requires us to balance sometimes exercise in summer 2018, competing demands, as growth puts targeted engagement through additional pressure on transport systems a co-design exercise at the and streets. end of 2019 / start of 2020 and a consultation on the draft strategy in autumn 2020. This City Centre Transport Strategy for 2040 has been produced following input from residents, commuters, businesses, visitors, transport operators and other stakeholders to understand the existing transport challenges and future aspirations for the city centre of those that use it each day. To support our vision, our aim is for 90% of morning peak trips into the city centre to be made on foot, by cycle or public transport before 2040 (as highlighted in the figure below). This means fewer cars in the city centre so we can have cleaner air, support our carbon reduction targets and rebalance street space enabling us to make walking the main mode of travel for getting around. We define walking in its most inclusive form, recognising for those who may be disabled or with limited mobility this may mean relying upon guide dogs, wheelchairs, or other mobility aids to travel.

Car 12% 6% 16% 34% 22% 10% 2040 19,000 9,500 25,300 53,800 43,800 15,800 Bus

3% 3,500 Rail

6 14% 16% 29% 20% 18% 2025 16,600 18,900 34,300 23,700 23,700 Metrolink

CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY 2% Cycle 2,500

13% 16% 26% 21% 21% Walk 2019 14,500 17,700 28,700 22,700 22,400

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Inbound Trips (07:30–09:30)

Responses to the TfGM Covid-19 recovery survey suggested there will be a significant shake-up in Since 2009 there has been a successful commuting travel patterns, with many reduction in the number of cars entering the respondents suggesting that they will city centre, falling from over 27,000 in 2009 be doing less commuting in the future. to under 23,000 a decade later in the morning Estimates (based on how respondents peak. In parallel, there has been an increasing in May 2020 anticipated travelling number of people accessing the city centre when restrictions were eased) on foot, by cycle, Metrolink and rail. Access revealed that commuting could be to the city centre by bus has been largely down by about 1 in 10 trips, with a consistent across the 10-year period. move away from the 5-day commuting week to more working from home. Background

For many years we have been transforming the city centre, to make it a place where more people choose to live, work and spend leisure time. We have also been working with transport partners to make investments, so it is an easier place to travel to and from, and to reduce the number of trips made by car. The figures below highlight our success to date in achieving this. How people travel in the future will continue to change, not just as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and this strategy aims to help support this modal shift to work for everyone.

2,477 14,463 17,671 28,709 22,669 22,391 2019 Car 2,132 2018 12,734 18,100 28,527 21,210 23,377 1,892 Bus 2017 11,821 14,679 28,669 21,727 23,779 1,781 11,773 13,183 28,533 22,640 25,085 2016 1,648 Rail 2015 10,506 10,942 25,435 23,092 24,988 1,638 2014 10,277 10,731 24,914 23,038 25,835 Metrolink 7 1,542 10,348 9,086 25,949 23,300 26,815 2013

1,476 CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY 11,009 7,877 22,414 22,286 25,734 Cycle 2012 1,190 2011 9,207 6,832 22,899 22,438 26,801 1,190 Walk 9,599 6,448 21,291 23,418 27,402 2010 1,102 8,877 6,716 20,386 24,615 27,021 2009

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Inbound Trips (07:30–09:30) (Source: TfGM SRAD REPORT 2021 Transport Statistics 2018 -19: Key Centre Monitoring Section)

The most successful cities of the future will be those offering the best quality of life and a range of job and leisure opportunities, reducing the need to travel by locating homes close to jobs and services, and enabling ease of local travel by walking, cycling, public transport and new zero-carbon forms of micro-mobility. As set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy, a high quality of life requires the creation of green, clean and desirable places and spaces to give people access to more natural environments. We want to increase the amount of quality public space in the city and to create even better places in our city centre by improving our streets. This includes prioritising walking, planning for more people walking and cycling, encouraging more trips by public transport, and further reducing dependence on the private car. In making these improvements, we will look to plant more trees and to provide more green spaces within the city centre, in addition to the planned in the Mayfield area. 48% of respondents Bury Heywood to the City Centre Littleborough We want to improve air quality in the city centre, not just Transport Strategy Standish Little Lever Rochdale because we have a legal responsibility to do so but also Radcliffe Shaw conversation because we recognise this will make for a healthier and Lees felt that cars, Middleton more attractive place to live, work and spend leisure time. Hindley Pemberton Cheetham motorcycles and Hill Atherton Atherton mopeds had too The city-region has set an ambitious target for Greater Leigh Ashton-under-Lyne much space in the Manchester to be net-zero carbon by 2038 with the need Ashton-in-Makerfield Swinton Pendleton city centre. for urgent action over the next five years. As we expect Newton-le-willows Salford Eccles Quays Eastlands continued high levels of growth in the city, we need to ensure TRAFFORD TRAFFORD Park this is delivered in a sustainable, clean and green way. Salford Stretford Denton (HS2) and Rail (NPR) represent huge IrlamIrlam Sale Hyde commitments from national government that will significantly contribute to HEATON CHAPEL an increasing number of job opportunities in the city centre (approx. 100,000 Romiley METROLINK Marple Future METROLINK by 2040). These, and other, investments will also unlock further major BUS CYCLING & WALKING redevelopment opportunities in the heart of the city centre. This will create Bee Network MANCHESTER Wythenshawe Cheadle RAIL AIRPORT increasing pressures on our transport systems as more people travel to, -TRAIN from and across the city to access new jobs and opportunities, and so our transport systems need to adapt and expand to cope.. Underpinning all this will be a major shift to walking and cycling for trips at the local level within, and to, the city centre. Delivery of measures to make Investments in HS2 and NPR into the city walking and cycling safer and easier through the Bee Network is a key part of centre are estimated to support a doubling of our plans for the city centre. 8 the economic output of Greater Manchester We also want to complement this with measures to make cycling and to circa £132 billion by 2050.

CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY walking safer and easier, recognising the importance and growth of active travel modes as a clean way of travelling. By 2040, at least 6% of trips into the city Our transport systems need to be safe and secure for all centre in the morning peak are targeted to our users. We will continue to work hard to reduce road be by cycling (9,500 trips between 7:30am – traffic accidents to as close as zero as possible and ensure Cycle safety is 9:30am, compared to 2,500 in 2019). transport networks are safe for all users. identified as a major We need to plan significant improvements to issue with 80% Our future transport services will need to complement our cycle routes into the city centre to support of conversation infrastructure proposals. Travel patterns may change this growth. respondents significantly both in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and indicating they felt with future mobility enhancements and innovations, so our unsafe when cycling plans must be agile to respond to people’s changing needs. It is estimated that up to 12,500 spaces around the city could be gradually removed from the inner This strategy also supports wider plans for the Greater centre. city centre parking supply, as improved Manchester region and across sustainable travel options are created. Manchester and Salford City Councils’ 90% of respondents areas. We live in a fast-paced society to the City Centre with continual change, but our strategy has been Transport Strategy There is an overall planned reduction in developed to incorporate near-term improvements conversation survey off-street car parking in the city centre area required before 2025, and longer-term proposals up to identified air quality through planned redevelopment of car 2040. These will need to remain flexible, keeping everyone as an important issue parking sites. It is estimated that 12,500 (residents, commuters, tourists and businesses) at the to tackle. spaces could be removed from the parking heart of the changes we make. supply, which will free up space for other uses. 48% of respondents Ramsbottom Bury Horwich Heywood to the City Centre Littleborough We want to improve air quality in the city centre, not just Bolton Transport Strategy Standish Little Rochdale Lever Rochdale because we have a legal responsibility to do so but also Radcliffe Shaw conversation Prestwich Westhoughton Farnworth Royton because we recognise this will make for a healthier and Lees Uppermill felt that cars, Middleton Chadderton more attractive place to live, work and spend leisure time. Wigan Hindley Oldham Pemberton Cheetham motorcycles and Hill Atherton Atherton Harpurhey Failsworth Mossley mopeds had too The city-region has set an ambitious target for Greater Leigh Walkden Tyldesley Ashton-under-Lyne Stalybridge much space in the Manchester to be net-zero carbon by 2038 with the need Ashton-in-Makerfield Swinton Golborne Pendleton Newton Heath Worsley city centre. for urgent action over the next five years. As we expect Newton-le-willows Salford Droylsden Eccles Quays Eastlands continued high levels of growth in the city, we need to ensure Openshaw DUKINFIELD TRAFFORD TRAFFORD Longsight Gorton Port Park Hulme this is delivered in a sustainable, clean and green way. Salford Urmston Rusholme Fallowfield Stretford Stretford Chorlton Levenshulme Denton High Speed 2 (HS2) and (NPR) represent huge IrlamIrlam Withington Sale Reddish Hyde HATTERSLEY Didsbury commitments from national government that will significantly contribute to Warrington HEATON Glossop CHAPEL an increasing number of job opportunities in the city centre (approx. 100,000 Altrincham Northenden Romiley METROLINK Marple Future METROLINK Hale Baguley by 2040). These, and other, investments will also unlock further major BUS Stockport CYCLING & WALKING Wythenshawe Hazel Grove redevelopment opportunities in the heart of the city centre. This will create Bee Network MANCHESTER Wythenshawe Cheadle RAIL AIRPORT Cheadle Hulme increasing pressures on our transport systems as more people travel to, TRAM-TRAIN Bramhall from and across the city to access new jobs and opportunities, and so our Wilmslow transport systems need to adapt and expand to cope.. Underpinning all this will be a major shift to walking and cycling for trips at the local level within, and to, the city centre. Delivery of measures to make Investments in HS2 and NPR into the city walking and cycling safer and easier through the Bee Network is a key part of centre are estimated to support a doubling of our plans for the city centre. the economic output of Greater Manchester 9 We also want to complement this with measures to make cycling and to circa £132 billion by 2050.

walking safer and easier, recognising the importance and growth of active CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY travel modes as a clean way of travelling. By 2040, at least 6% of trips into the city Our transport systems need to be safe and secure for all centre in the morning peak are targeted to our users. We will continue to work hard to reduce road be by cycling (9,500 trips between 7:30am – traffic accidents to as close as zero as possible and ensure Cycle safety is 9:30am, compared to 2,500 in 2019). transport networks are safe for all users. identified as a major We need to plan significant improvements to issue with 80% Our future transport services will need to complement our cycle routes into the city centre to support of conversation infrastructure proposals. Travel patterns may change this growth. respondents significantly both in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and indicating they felt with future mobility enhancements and innovations, so our unsafe when cycling plans must be agile to respond to people’s changing needs. It is estimated that up to 12,500 spaces around the city could be gradually removed from the inner This strategy also supports wider plans for the Greater centre. city centre parking supply, as improved Manchester region and across sustainable travel options are created. Manchester and Salford City Councils’ 90% of respondents areas. We live in a fast-paced society to the City Centre with continual change, but our strategy has been Transport Strategy There is an overall planned reduction in developed to incorporate near-term improvements conversation survey off-street car parking in the city centre area required before 2025, and longer-term proposals up to identified air quality through planned redevelopment of car 2040. These will need to remain flexible, keeping everyone as an important issue parking sites. It is estimated that 12,500 (residents, commuters, tourists and businesses) at the to tackle. spaces could be removed from the parking heart of the changes we make. supply, which will free up space for other uses. Our ambitions

Our vision is for a well-connected, zero-carbon city centre at the heart of the North, offering our residents, employees and visitors a great place to work, live in and visit. We have set out seven ambitions to deliver our vision.

Ambition Details Ambition 1: Walking The city centre is safe and easy to walk around with clear, is the main way of well-signed routes. Pavements and public spaces will be getting around the city high quality, green and accessible; catering for everyone, centre no matter what their age or mobility. Ambition 2: The city Traffic levels and pollution in the city will be reduced, centre is cleaner, through the removal of non-essential and polluting greener and less vehicles traveling into and across the city centre. congested Ambition 3: More There is an attractive, safe, protected and efficient cycling people choose to cycle network into and through the city centre, delivered as to destinations within part of our city-region’s proposed Bee Network. Cycling the city centre is supported with good parking facilities close to key destinations, and hire bikes are easy to access in the city centre. Ambition 4: The city Manchester and Salford city centres are well connected centre benefits from by rail to other cities and towns (to support commuting, better public transport business and leisure trips). There is sufficient capacity 10 connections on peak hour Metrolink, bus and rail services, and better integration between modes to ensure that public CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY transport is an attractive alternative to car travel. Public transport operating hours and service patterns support travel needs at evenings and weekends, particularly for leisure and commuting trips. Cross-city services are convenient, reliable, safe and secure, clean, quiet and accessible to all. Ambition 5: Parking Car parking is reduced and appropriately located in the in the city centre city centre but remains available to those with specific is smarter and mobility needs that rely upon accessible parking integrated with other provision. Parking will be reviewed close to city centre modes public transport hubs, with people encouraged to travel to those locations using the public transport and active travel options provided. Outside of the city centre, car parking is smarter and better integrated with other modes of travel. Ambition 6: Goods are Essential goods can access our city centre, with a shift moved and delivered towards cleaner, more efficient vehicles and processes sustainably and that minimise the negative impacts of deliveries and efficiently into and servicing. within the city centre Ambition 7: Innovation We support creating a better travel experience in our city is embraced where centre using new technologies and emerging methods it benefits the city of travel. This includes embracing new ways of working, centre and its users to optimise and improve transport services, customer information and asset management. Our proposals The proposals we have developed aim to support our short-term recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic, and to support delivery of our vision for the city centre for an integrated, healthy, inclusive and sustainable transport network with increased connectivity and capacity. They will help to deliver growth in a sustainable way and to support our target for 90% of people using public transport and active travel to get into the city centre, in the peak period before 2040. Our proposals also reflect our desire to make walking the main mode of travel for getting around the city centre, by improving the quality and ease of movement on our city centre streets and within public spaces, ensuring that the city centre is a 11 great place to spend time in and move around. All

our planned proposals support the transformation CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY needed to shift towards a net-zero carbon city centre and cleaner air. Committed interventions Manchester City Council, Salford City Council and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have committed transport interventions for the city centre, which will be delivered in the next five years and contribute to achieving our vision. These projects have significant funding allocated, and the case for change has already been made (although final funding arrangements and approval of the business case may still be needed in some cases). The main committed proposals include: — Albert Square - major redevelopment of the square to create one of the finest civic spaces in Europe linked to the town hall refurbishment project. — New Bailey St / Bridge St infrastructure improvements - public realm, bus and environmental improvements. — New and enhanced city centre cycling routes as part of the Bee Network including: 12 • the Northern Quarter cycle route including Stevenson Square; • Chapel Street East; • Manchester to Chorlton Beeway; CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY • Rochdale towpath upgrade; • Northern and Eastern Gateway Bee Network in Ancoats and New Islington; • Salford City Centre Bee Network Package including Riverside Connection, Oldfield Road Corridor, Chapel Street/Trinity Way and Broughton cycleway enhancements; and • City Centre Triangle. — Connectivity and capacity enhancements to our rail network through the Salford Central Rail Station upgrade, the (including new platforms 15 and 16 at Manchester Piccadilly Station – subject to formal government approval) and the Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade electrification to Stalybridge. — Higher frequency of Metrolink services across the city centre, facilitated by the purchase of an additional 27 tram units. — Electric bus fleet investment and expansion of the electric vehicle (EV) charging network and EVs in car clubs. — Innovation pilots of new technologies in the city centre such as the trial of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and e-scooters at Salford University. — Smart integrated ticketing. Future transport interventions Further transformation of our plays a complementary role in streets and public transport, to helping people travel around the support people travelling into city centre. The role and routing of and around the city centre will Free Bus within the city centre may help us to achieve our vision and change over time and a refresh of ambitions. This is not necessarily the fleet will support our Clean Air about creating new infrastructure, ambitions. it is also about using existing ones We will ensure that changes to more effectively. The following bus operations in the city centre summarises other investments we and wider area do not significantly are planning: inconvenience bus users and are Our Bus — we see bus playing a compatible with the objective of fundamental role supporting increasing bus usage as part of access to the city centre, especially our vision for 90% of all morning for those living within 10km of the peak trips to the city centre to 13 city. We want bus services to be be made by public transport and more efficient and reliable when active travel before 2040. We will CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY travelling into and through the city work with bus operators, users and centre and we will work with wider stakeholders to develop more operators towards these goals. detailed proposals. We will achieve this with Our Metrolink — our longer- interventions that reduce the traffic term aspirations focus on in the city centre, including bus significant enhancements to gates, improvements to bus stops the network including integration and the development of quality bus with some parts of the rail network to transit corridors. deliver a metro-type operation. To In the future we would like our buses facilitate metro services, we are to become zero-emission, quieter exploring the feasibility of testing and have integrated ticketing with tram-train technology in Greater potentially more cross-city bus Manchester and the potential for services and some services not Salford Crescent to act as a focal running all the way into the centre. point for growth in the north west of We want to redevelop Piccadilly the city centre. Gardens and enhance this area with We will look at the feasibility of better quality public realm for people achieving further major metro to enjoy. capacity increases by using This could be coupled with the tunnels under the city centre. This introduction of a new bus facility/ solution would avoid taking scarce interchange as part of redeveloping street-level space to expand the the Manchester Piccadilly Station metro network and facilitate longer area for HS2. Free Bus currently vehicles. Our Rail — the rail network Deansgate proposals in response to will need to be developed the Covid-19 pandemic are planned and services made far more reliable. to become permanent, to make it In the nearer-term, longer trains a more attractive street for people facilitated by selective platform on foot. We are planning for further lengthening will support travel street improvements on the rest of growth to the city centre. We fully Deansgate and support longer-term commitments to make these key streets, through to deliver HS2, NPR, and the significantly reduced traffic, better development of the Integrated Rail for walking and cycling as well as Plan to transform connectivity and spending time in. rail capacity across the North of is an important England. part of the city centre which we We will aim to transform Manchester would like to improve as a space Piccadilly Station into a world-class for people to visit more often, enjoy interchange, and gateway into our and for walking through safely. city. We will assess the role that rail Improving the ease of access to the is likely to play in the future shape of significant range of attractions and the city centre, and work with the rail facilities such as university buildings, industry to improve the rail offering hospitals, museums and open where it does not currently meet the space in the Oxford Road Corridor needs of the area. area forms part of the city centre 14 plans to improve streets for people Our Streets — we want walking walking and cycling. In Salford, we

CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY to be the main mode of travel are committed to redeveloping many within the city centre and of the streets within and around recognise that further investment is the city centre to encourage more needed to achieve this. We are walking and cycling in this area. planning a step-change in the redesign of many of Manchester’s For cycling, we know that city centre streets and spaces to our streets leading to the create a highly walkable network and city centre, and those within it, in particular to ensure that our city require improvement. To support centre is accessible to all, including more people cycling we are people with disabilities and limited developing an integrated city centre mobility. We have already started to cycle network, formed around “the trial some of this in response to the triangle” primary cycle network, Covid-19 pandemic. comprising three major routes: Deansgate, Whitworth Street West The city centre must be accessible and the committed Northern Quarter to all people, including those with cycle route. This will be supported by limited mobility. We want to expand measures to ensure greater our pedestrian priority zones across permeability of the whole city centre the city, enhance walking routes, by bike, and a series of “spokes” on and make it easier to cross our the “city centre wheel” cycle streets. Our vision is to transform network, which includes high-quality some of Manchester’s most iconic radial routes for people travelling streets and spaces. The car-free from across the city-region. This investment in the city centre forms a In the future, we will designate key part of the development of the different corridors into the city Bee Network, and the wider delivery centre to prioritise movement by of the commitments outlined by our particular modes e.g. cycle, bus, Cycling and Walking Commissioner, freight movements – to give those Chris Boardman, in his 2017 report modes the safe space they need and Made to Move. reduce the need for different modes of traffic to mix. We will also ensure We believe that car use needs that the plans for the city centre do to change and be carefully not have a detrimental impact on managed in our future city centre. To areas surrounding the city centre support this we will be, over time, such as Ardwick, Cheetham Hill, removing some existing car parking Hulme and Ordsall. within the core of the city centre. New developments will remove Our integrated network surface car parks and on-street — future mobility is a fast- parking will be reduced to make evolving area as new technologies, better use of street space, such as systems and solutions enter the providing wider footways, more market, continuously offering new dynamic loading or servicing transport solutions. We will remain provision, space for bars and flexible and agile to support restaurants or parklets. technologies which align with our vision and will continue to undertake Where trips by cars, taxis or goods trials to understand their impact. 15 vehicles need to be made into the Such trials will potentially include the city centre, we will push for them to CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY review of e-scooters, electric cargo be cleaner, lower polluting vehicles, cycles, travel hubs, dynamic supporting our commitments to kerbside management for parking deliver clean air (as part of the GM and goods deliveries across the city Clean Air Plan) and a zero carbon centre. future. Work will be undertaken Our efforts will focus on delivering to see whether it is feasible and cleaner air in the city centre and practical to implement an Ultra supporting our aspirations to deliver Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in the a zero-carbon city centre city centre at a future point. We environment. will develop our city centre street network to be a fully 20mph area and An ambitious but flexible remove through traffic, which we combination of policies, will facilitate with the development infrastructure investments, service of loops into and out of the city from improvements and behavioural the Manchester Salford Inner Relief changes will be needed over the Route. period to 2040. These interventions are set out in the map overleaf. Committed to delivering in next 5 years

Business case to be completed in next 5 years Sandhills Victoria North bus corridor/ Metrolink stop Options to be developed in next 5 years Metro/tram-train, potentially M62 North-East Corridor S4A & QBT ick express bus corridor Metrolink and Metro/tram-train services er ad including a tunnel under the (MediaCityUK – ed o Fr R city centre Rail infrastructure improvements Salford Crescent) Salford High speed rail City Centre Salford University S4A & bus corridor B Package u 2 Streets for All & Quality Bus Transit and bus network improvements escooter r 6 upgrade (A56 y A N Manchester – Bury) d Streets for All & bus corridor upgrade and new bus corridors e a w 4 o 6 R R Local road network improvements ver Irwell 6 Rapid Transit connection Ri d A A m Br Improve Piccadilly– a Public realm and interchange improvements o between Salford Crescent 5 h towpath upgrade a 6 d d – Inner Salford – City Centre Victoria Metrolink d l a O S Chapel o Asset Management and Maintenance Programmes t frequency R r St East e le e Salford Central a Ancoats Travel Hub Cycling and Walking Schemes t University of Victoria d ch A Salford station upgrade o Travel Hubs 6 R Salford Northern and Potential new Metrolink stop Salford Crescent Crescent S4A: Deansgate – Shudehill Eastern Gateway Masterplan S4A & QBT Phase 1 Pedestrian crossing improvements: Access Package 6 1 (A6 Manchester – A Northern Quarter 1 Nicholas Croft/Shudehill/Thomas Street St Ancoats ) pel Exchange Square Cycle Way Scheme 2 Deansgate/ Street Cha Metrolink Trans-Pennine Route upgrade 3 Portland Street/Princess Street connection – Piccadilly Gardens 4 Deansgate/Whitworth Street West Improvements electrification to Stalybridge MediaCityUK – Salford and potentially to 5 Oxford Street/Whitworth Street Salford Crescent Bike hire Bus routing, services City Centre Central Piccadilly 6 Princess Street/Whitworth Street North West: scheme: Market and interchange 7 Sackville Street/Whitworth Street Phase 1 Deansgate Street Gardens improvements New Bailey 2 New Islington 8 Aytoun Street/Fairfield Street/Whitworth Street M602 SALFORD 9 Fairfield Street/London Road 10 Charles Street/Hulme Street/Oxford Road Establishing a 20mph Manchester Piccadilly Albert Square zone in the city centre MANCHESTER Piccadilly HS2 Growth Strategy (early interventions Reg redevelopment 16 Other strategic interventions not shown on the map: ents R HS2 and powers) oad A5 Manchester St Peters 3 7 Central Square 9 • Implementation of the Congestion Deal et 8 Stre CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY • Smart, integrated ticketing rth Deansgate- itwo Ashto A57 Regent Road Castlefield Wh n Old Road • Further investment in the Bee Network KRN Carriageway 7 S4A: Deansgate – 6 A635 • Clean Air Plan measures resurfacing Phase 2 4 5 • Retrofitting buses and electric bus fleet investment Anchorage Deansgate Manchester • EV Charging Points HOME 10 S4A & QBT Ardwick Active Travel Fund: Oxford Road • Implementation of the city S4A: (A57 Manchester– City Centre Cycle Triangle Whitworth St Hattersley) centre car parking strategy Salford • Streets for All network Quays Salford Quays A57(M) improvements Manchester Cornbrook Metropolitan S4A & QBT • Travels Hubs/Park and Ride 27 additional trams University (A6 Manchester– Stockport College) • Station accessibility improvements A Central Manchester 6 • Innovation pilots and trial of new 6 technologies eg. Mobility as a Service Exchange Quay 5 Rail Network (including A S ad Castlefield corridor) to • Improvements to local bus services o Manchester c R enhancements kp r o • Implementation of the GM Freight and Wharfside te to Chorlton r s t e P R Logistics Strategy h University o C r i of Manchester a n d • Improved wayfinding, pedestrian links and public realm in Pomona c A the city centre e 6 s Manchester s

Old Trafford Oxford Road • Interventions to improve Metrolink reliability, capacity R Royal Infirmary

and seviceimrpovements, and stop upgrades o corridor area a U d public realm and p S • Reform of the bus market A p wayfinding t e Priority Corridor 5 r e r • Expanding car clubs to city centre residents Hulme 1 0 improvements e B (A34 New Bailey Street/ t r A o

3 Upper Bridge Street/ • Enhanced major walking routes and pedestrian priority areas 3 o 4 k Princess Street/Brook Street) • Delivery of the NPR vision and rail conditions outputs

CITY CENTRE DELIVERY PLAN MAP Subject to funding and business case approval

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2020 Committed to delivering in next 5 years

Business case to be completed in next 5 years Sandhills Victoria North bus corridor/ Metrolink stop Options to be developed in next 5 years Metro/tram-train, potentially M62 North-East Corridor S4A & QBT ick express bus corridor Metrolink and Metro/tram-train services er ad including a tunnel under the (MediaCityUK – ed o Fr R city centre Rail infrastructure improvements Salford Crescent) Salford High speed rail City Centre Salford University S4A & bus corridor B Package u 2 Streets for All & Quality Bus Transit and bus network improvements escooter pilot r 6 upgrade (A56 y A N Manchester – Bury) d Streets for All & bus corridor upgrade and new bus corridors e a w 4 o 6 R R Local road network improvements ver Irwell 6 Rapid Transit connection Ri d A A m Rochdale Canal Br Improve Piccadilly– a Public realm and interchange improvements o between Salford Crescent 5 h towpath upgrade a 6 d d – Inner Salford – City Centre Victoria Metrolink d l a O S Chapel o Asset Management and Maintenance Programmes t frequency R r St East e le e Salford Central a Ancoats Travel Hub Cycling and Walking Schemes t University of Victoria d ch A Salford station upgrade o Travel Hubs 6 R Salford Northern and Potential new Metrolink stop Salford Crescent Crescent S4A: Deansgate – Shudehill Eastern Gateway Masterplan S4A & QBT Phase 1 Pedestrian crossing improvements: Access Package 6 1 (A6 Manchester – A Northern Quarter 1 Nicholas Croft/Shudehill/Thomas Street St Ancoats Little Hulton) pel Exchange Square Cycle Way Scheme 2 Deansgate/John Dalton Street Cha Metrolink Trans-Pennine Route upgrade 3 Portland Street/Princess Street connection – Piccadilly Gardens 4 Deansgate/Whitworth Street West Improvements electrification to Stalybridge MediaCityUK – Salford and potentially to Leeds 5 Oxford Street/Whitworth Street Salford Crescent Bike hire Bus routing, services City Centre Central Piccadilly 6 Princess Street/Whitworth Street North West: scheme: Market and interchange 7 Sackville Street/Whitworth Street Phase 1 Deansgate Street Gardens improvements New Bailey 2 New Islington 8 Aytoun Street/Fairfield Street/Whitworth Street M602 SALFORD 9 Fairfield Street/London Road 10 Charles Street/Hulme Street/Oxford Road Establishing a 20mph Manchester Piccadilly Albert Square zone in the city centre MANCHESTER Piccadilly HS2 Growth Strategy (early interventions Reg redevelopment Other strategic interventions not shown on the map: ents R HS2 and powers) 17 oad A5 Manchester St Peters 3 7 Central Square 9 • Implementation of the Congestion Deal et 8 Stre • Smart, integrated ticketing rth CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY Deansgate- itwo Ashto A57 Regent Road Castlefield Wh n Old Road • Further investment in the Bee Network KRN Carriageway 7 S4A: Deansgate – 6 A635 • Clean Air Plan measures resurfacing Phase 2 4 5 • Retrofitting buses and electric bus fleet investment Anchorage Deansgate Manchester • EV Charging Points HOME 10 S4A & QBT Ardwick Active Travel Fund: Oxford Road • Implementation of the city S4A: (A57 Manchester– City Centre Cycle Triangle Whitworth St Hattersley) centre car parking strategy Salford • Streets for All network Quays Salford Quays A57(M) improvements Manchester Cornbrook Metropolitan S4A & QBT • Travels Hubs/Park and Ride 27 additional trams University (A6 Manchester– Stockport College) • Station accessibility improvements A Central Manchester 6 • Innovation pilots and trial of new 6 technologies eg. Mobility as a Service Exchange Quay 5 Rail Network (including A S ad Castlefield corridor) to • Improvements to local bus services o Manchester c R enhancements kp r o • Implementation of the GM Freight and Wharfside te to Chorlton r s t e P R Logistics Strategy h University o C r i of Manchester a n d • Improved wayfinding, pedestrian links and public realm in Pomona c A the city centre e 6 s Manchester s

Old Trafford Oxford Road • Interventions to improve Metrolink reliability, capacity R Royal Infirmary

and seviceimrpovements, and stop upgrades o corridor area a U d public realm and p S • Reform of the bus market A p wayfinding t e Priority Corridor 5 r e r • Expanding car clubs to city centre residents Hulme 1 0 improvements e B (A34 New Bailey Street/ t r A o

3 Upper Bridge Street/ • Enhanced major walking routes and pedestrian priority areas 3 o 4 k Princess Street/Brook Street) • Delivery of the NPR vision and rail conditions outputs

CITY CENTRE DELIVERY PLAN MAP Subject to funding and business case approval

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2020 Summary of Key Priorities and Actions

Our future transport interventions set out in this document need to focus on tackling climate change and reducing carbon, creating cleaner air, tackling social exclusion, supporting the health and economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and helping to deliver the planned growth in the city centre. We are planning to focus on investing in walking, cycling and public transport networks; better integrating our existing transport system; and developing major sustainable transport schemes for 18 delivery in the medium and long term. The full City Centre Transport Strategy and further CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY information can be found here: www.tfgm.com/strategy Review & Reporting As part of the annual review of the GM Transport Strategy 2040.

Active Travel Further active travel Bus Routing and investment, including Terminus Improvements schemes like GM Bike Hire. Supporting service Corridor Improvements changes, new cross-city Delivering streets that services, better and new support moving more interchange facilities. people and goods to and from the city centre by sustainable modes. City Centre Streets & Spaces Piccadilly Station Expanding accessible An integrated hub of local pedestrian priority through Sustainable Communities transport networks with walking routes and crossings, high-speed northern and maintaining access for disabled Ensuring new and existing national rail services. 19 residents and visitors, buses, homes and businesses

cycles, servicing and delivery. have the facilities to CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY support sustainable travel.

Rail Improvements Reliable, higher Rapid Transit capacity services, with Engagement, Consultation, Potential connections to an upgraded central Assessment Salford Crescent, tram-train Manchester rail network. opportunities, and tunnelled Collaborating with residents, services as part of a future workers, businesses, metro network. operators and partners. Testing the impacts of our proposals, to clearly identify and mitigate negative impacts, to refine and maximise their success. Future Transport & Shared Mobility Clean Air Plan Exploiting new opportunities Electric bus fleets, to reduce car dependency electric vehicle charging, and deliver environmental and investigating an benefits. Ultra Low Emission Zone.