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Transport Activity Pack – Key Stage 2 . Welcome! Transport activity pack – Key Stage 2 . Welcome! At the moment, it is important for us to stay at home as An important message: much as possible, to help reduce the spread of coronavirus. People still need to make journeys, but it’s important to stay safe no matter how we get around. Normally we want everyone to use public transport. But at the moment we’re asking most people to avoid There is limited space on public transport and fewer services Greater Manchester’s buses, trains and trams. running. If you’re missing the transport network, there’s a range of So we need to leave our buses, trains and trams for key activities in this pack to help you enjoy it from the safety of workers like doctors, nurses and shop workers, and other your own home. people who rely on it. The activities are aimed at Key Stage 2 Primary School If you need to make a journey, please try to stay local and children. But you’re never too old to solve a puzzle, design a walk, cycle or drive. tram or do a bit of colouring in! Answers can be found at the end of the pack. In the future, when it is safe to, more people will be able to enjoy our buses, trains and trams again. We hope you all have fun thinking about different ways to travel, like cycling, walking, driving or catching the bus, train But for now, we hope you’ll enjoy the transport network from or Metrolink tram. home, using the resources in this pack. Please share your transport art with us @OfficialTfGM on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. Transport activity pack – Key Stage 2 Travel fact sheet and quiz This fact sheet tells you about how to travel Driving is also a safe way to travel, but it can cause How can people stay safe on public transport? safely in Greater Manchester at the moment. traffic and can be bad for the environment. Read through the sheet and use it to answer the The trams, buses and trains are being cleaned More cars on the roads could lead to road questions on the following page. more often to make sure they are safe for drivers, accidents, and the emergency services and the key workers and other people who rely on them. National Health Service (NHS) are already busy. Coronavirus: How should we travel right now? People who do need to use public transport are Using public transport being asked to help protect themselves and At the moment, it is important for us to stay at others by: home as much as possible. This is because when Buses, trains and Metrolink trams are still lots of people are near each other, it can spread running, but there are fewer services. There is • Wearing a face covering coronavirus. also limited space on buses, trains and trams, • Keeping two metres apart from other people because people need to keep a safe distance from But many people still need to make journeys. other travellers. • Washing their hands before and after their Some reasons people need to travel are below: journey Normally, we want more people to travel by public • To buy food transport. But at the moment most people are • Coughing or sneezing into a tissue • To go to the doctors being asked to avoid public transport unless they • Using contactless payments if possible (rather have no other way to travel. • To travel to important work in a hospital or than change and notes) supermarket Public transport should be used by: In the future, when it is safe to do so, more people • To care for other people • Key workers like doctors, nurses and shop will be able to go on buses, trains and trams again. workers, who have to go to important work • To get to work if they can’t work from home But there may be different rules to follow to make • People who have no other way to make a sure everybody can travel safely. How should we travel? journey It’s better to cycle, walk or drive, if you can – and Walking or cycling this is the best way to travel leave public transport for key workers and people and stay safe. It is also good exercise for you and who rely on it. better for the environment. Just remember to stay two metres (the length of a bed!) away from anyone who is not in your household. Transport activity pack – Key Stage 2 Travel fact sheet and quiz Quiz 1. Who should be using public transport and why? 3. What should people do to keep safe if they have to travel on public transport? 2. What is the best way to travel right now? 4. Why are cycling and walking good ways to travel? Transport activity pack – Key Stage 2 Metrolink fact sheet and quiz This fact sheet tells you about the Metrolink • Due to popular demand for the service, system in Greater Manchester at the moment. new lines opened to Eccles (2000) and Read through the sheet and use it to answer the MediaCityUK (2010); since 2010 the service questions on the following page. has expanded rapidly with six new lines to Rochdale, Oldham, Didsbury, Ashton-under- • Greater Manchester’s Metrolink is the UK’s Lyne, Manchester Airport and the brand new largest tram network! Metrolink has come to Trafford Park Line. Sometimes we call this be known as a symbol of Manchester, alongside expansion the Big Bang! the bee symbol and our rainy weather. • The Trafford Park Line opened in March of this • Our Metrolink trams are a key part of keeping year and saw the total number of Metrolink Manchester moving alongside the roads, buses stops rise to 99 across the entire network. and trains. Each tram can carry up to 206 people and travel speeds of up to 50 miles per • It is important to keep our environment clean. hour. Metrolink is environmentally sustainable with 100% of the network powered by renewable • The first Metrolink line to start service goes energy sources. Metrolink trams also give between Altrincham and Bury, it was opened off no air pollution into the streets ensuring by the Queen in 1992 and is 19 miles long. Manchester’s air can stay clean. • After opening, the Metrolink proved popular with Greater Manchester residents and now almost 45 million people a year use the service! Transport activity pack – Key Stage 2 Metrolink fact sheet and quiz Quiz Questions 1. Who opened the first Metrolink line? 5. Name two of the six places that the new 9. Roughly, how many journeys are made on Metrolink lines go to. Metrolink a year? 2. What new Metrolink line opened this year? 6. How many Metrolink stops are there at the 10. State one of the two ways Metrolink is an moment? environmentally friendly public transport service. 3. In what year did the Metrolink service start? 7. How fast can a Metrolink tram travel? 4. What two towns did the first line go between? 8. How many people can a Metrolink tram carry? Transport activity pack – Key Stage 2 Coronavirus Design your own Metrolink networkMetrolink reduced service from Monday 23 March 2020 Coronavirus This is our Metrolink network Metrolink reduced service from Monday 23 March 2020 Ladywell Langworthy Abraham Bowker Heaton Besses o’ P+R Weaste Vale P+R Radcliffe Reduced Service Metrolink map March 2020 450 Broadway Moss P Park P th’ Barn 216 Bury MediaCityUK P P P+R Crumpsall Prestwich Whitefield 369 Eccles approx 350m Harbour City Queens ZONE Altrincham ZONE ZONE Road P+R Ladywell Langworthy Anchorage Newton 100 Salford ZONE Abraham BowkerHeath andHeaton Besses o’ Shaw and P+R Weaste Moss Vale Moston Park th’ Barn P+R Radcliffe Barton Dock 450 Quays Broadway Monsall P Hollinwood P Freehold 216 Crompton Navigation Parkway Exchange Bury 4 P+R intu 3 Road Village 2 Wharfside P P 81 MediaCityUK Quay P+RP+R Road Trafford CrumpsallCentral Failsworth PrestwichSouth WhitefieldP+R 369 Newhey 270 90 P approx 1 Eccles Imperial Chadderton Centre 350m Harbour City Victoria Queens Park P+R War Museum Pomona 190 ZONE Timperley ZONE ZONE Road P+R P Altrincham AnchorageDeansgate- Exchange Newton Westwood Oldham 251 Derker P+RMilnrow Dane Central 100 P+R Salford Castlefield ZONESquare Heath and Shaw and 108 Stretford Old Trafford P Road Quays Monsall Moston Hollinwood Freehold Crompton Manchester Barton Dock Exchange Oldham Oldham Kingsway 4 Navigation P+R intu 3 Road ParkwayP Village 2 Wharfside Shudehill ZONE ZONE ZONE Airport 81 Sale Trafford King Mumps Business Park Road Brooklands Quay Failsworth South P+R P+R Newhey Trafford Cornbrook St Peter’s Central 90 P Bar 1 Street 270 Imperial Square Park Chadderton Centre MarketVictoria P+R Newbold Timperley War Museum Pomona 190 P+R Firswood Derker P Milnrow Shadowmoss Didsbury Burton St Werburgh’s Deansgate- ExchangeStreet 2 3Westwood Oldham 251 4 East Village RoadDane Road Chorlton Castlefield Square Central Rochdale P+R Ashton- P+R 108 Stretford Old Trafford Peel Hall Didsbury P Road under-Lyne 217 Railway Piccadilly Kingsway Robinswood Manchester approx West Withington Shudehill ZONE ZONE Oldham Oldham ZONE Station Airport 450mSale P Trafford Gardens King Mumps Business Park Road Brooklands Didsbury St Peter’s approx Barlow Moor Bar Cornbrook 250mStreet Wythenshawe Road Square P+R Piccadilly Market P+R Rochdale Newbold Town Centre 302 Firswood Ashton West 195 Shadowmoss Didsbury Burton SaleSt Werburgh’s Street 2 3 4Town Centre P+R New Crossacres East Village Road WaterRoad300 Chorlton Etihad Clayton Edge Ashton Ashton- Rochdale Wythenshawe Islington P+R Peel Hall Park Campus Hall Lane Droylsden Moss 217 Railway Martinscroft DidsburyBaguley Park Piccadilly under-Lyne Robinswood approx West Withington Station 450m Gardens P+R Road Didsbury Holt Town Velopark Cemetery Audenshaw 200approx Benchill Roundthorn Moor Northern Barlow Moor 250m Road Wythenshawe Road Moor Road P+R Piccadilly P+R Rochdale Town Centre Ashton West 195 302 Sale Town Centre P+R New Crossacres
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