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GREATER MANCHESTER TRANSPORT STRATEGY 2040 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Part of the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040

Published February 2017, updated January 2021 02 Contents

01. Introduction 05

02. Our Vision and the Right Mix for 2040 08

03. Critical transport challenges 10

04. A more customer-focused transport system: Our Network principles 12

05. Our Greater Manchester modal principles for 2040 13

06. Our 2040 Spatial Themes 14

07. GM-Wide policies 16

08. Making it happen 18

03 Transport is crucial in supporting Greater Manchester’s ambitious plans, including those set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy (GMS) with its vision ‘to make Greater Manchester one of the best places in the world to grow up, get on and grow old’.

04 01. Introduction

Greater Manchester is changing. Not only is our interventions needed to achieve it. It focuses on city-region growing — in terms of population and tackling the critical long-term challenges we are economy — but it is continuing to set the agenda facing in Greater Manchester, such as a rapidly on English devolution. We are leading the way in growing and ageing population, climate change making use of the powers and funds devolved to and the need to improve productivity and reduce us by national Government, and we are confident social inequality in our city region. that our city-region is on a path towards more powers and funding, supported by our directly Why 2040? The opportunities offered by elected Mayor and council leaders. devolution and greater local determination of policies, funding and delivery allow us to take More local decision-making leads to greater a much bolder and longer-term view of our benefits for our people and communities, transport needs. This means we can identify an including by enabling us to create better places evidence-based, long-term vision for the ‘right and to develop a modern, integrated and reliable mix’ of transport modes on our network. Our transport system. Right Mix vision is for 50% of trips to be made by sustainable modes, with no net increase in motor It is in this context that we are continuing to vehicle traffic, by 2040. develop and deliver the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040. In 2021, a refreshed Greater Manchester also has a long-term version of the document was published to reflect environmental ambition for carbon neutrality by work undertaken, and the policy changed context, 2038. It is vital that we act to reduce the impact since 2017. of transport on the environment. At every stage, this Strategy takes into consideration the actions Transport is crucial in supporting Greater needed to protect people’s health, reduce air Manchester’s ambitious plans, including those pollution and tackle the climate emergency. set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy (GMS) with its vision ‘to make Greater Manchester one of Our 2040 Vision — and the Right Mix — will not the best places in the world to grow up, get on and be easy to deliver but, in preparing this long-term grow old’. Strategy, we believe we are putting in place the right framework to face up to the challenges of Our 2040 Vision for Transport, which we the next 20 years. consulted on in 2015, set out our ambitions for a radical new approach to planning our The full Strategy document can be downloaded transport system in support of long-term needs at tfgm.com/strategy and the key aspects are and aspirations. The 2040 Transport Strategy highlighted in this Executive Summary. builds on that Vision, highlighting the priority

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Our vision is for Greater Manchester to have ‘World class connections that support long-term, sustainable economic growth and access to opportunity for all’. Our approach to achieving this was set out in the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040: Our Vision. The four key elements of our Vision, which represent the goals of our Strategy, are set out below.

Supporting sustainable economic Protecting our growth environment

TRANSPORT VISION World-class connections that support long-term sustainable economic growth and access to opportunity for all.

Improving Developing an quality of life innovative for all city-region

08 Our new Greater Manchester 2040 Local Transport Plan Our 2040 Vision Greater Manchester Transport Strategy Sets out a vision for Greater Manchester Five 2040 transport in Greater Year Transport Delivery Manchester 2040, Plans and Local identifying what success Contains more detail on Implementation Plans looks like for different how we will achieve our types of travel. Five year transport Vision, including the spending plans (updated Highlights wider policy interventions we will annually). linkages and likely drivers bring forward in the of future travel demands. short, medium and long Monitoring and evaluation Includes indicative term. of transport delivery. delivery timeline. Supported by a robust Integrated Assessment and Evidence Base.

Ten LIPs are included as a Delivery Plan appendix to highlight local priorities.

In 2019, we set out our ambition to improve our transport system so that — by 2040 — 50% of all journeys in Greater Manchester are made by public transport or active travel, supporting a reduction in car use to no more than 50% of daily trips. This will mean one million more sustainable journeys every day in Greater Manchester by 2040. We call this the transport ‘Right Mix’. Achieving the Right Mix is expected to lead to zero net growth in motor vehicle traffic in Greater Manchester between 2017 and 2040.

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09 03. Critical transport challenges

We face challenges in achieving our vision, and these are analysed in depth in our 2040 Evidence Base, which should be read alongside this 2040 Transport Strategy. They are also summarised below.

SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AN INCREASE TO SUPPORT GROWTH IN EMPLOYMENT REQUIRING AT LEAST HS2 AND FROM JUST c.200,000 NORTHERN 1.3 MILLION POWERHOUSE 200,000 RAIL (NPR) IN 2011 TO OVER JOBS NEW HOMES 1.56 MILLION GREATER BY 2035. MANCHESTER LOCAL INDUSTRIAL 2011 DWELLINGS 1.2 MILLION – 2040 DWELLINGS c 1.4 MILLION TOWN STRATEGY (GM LIS) CENTRE CHALLENGE

A RAPIDLY SUPPORTING MANCHESTER INCREASING POPULATION CONGESTION DEAL AIRPORT POPULATION GROWTH TO SUSTAINABLE MORE THAN +600,000 DEVELOPMENT PLAN MILLION 3by 2040 MORE TRIPS ON OUR TRANSPORT STREETS FOR ALL TRANSPORT NETWORKS EVERYDAY BY 2040 FOR THE NORTH

IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE ACROSS GREATER MANCHESTER

GREATER MANCHESTER HAS REDUCED CASUALTY RATES (PER HEAD OF POPULATION) STRATEGIC INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE 31% TO BELOW THE NATIONAL AVERAGE QUALITY OF LIFE ACROSS GM

OF HOUSEHOLDS HAVE NO CAR KSIS PER 100,000 POPULATION GM MOVING MADE TO PLAN FOR MOVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORT BY 2036 OF GM'S GM UK POPULATION WILL BE 75 OR OVER AN INCREASE OF 75% 14% FARES & FROM 2011. GM CYCLING 28 AND WALKING TICKETING 41 INFRASTRUCTURE PROPOSAL

HALF OF ALL TRIPS ARE LESS THAN 41% OF THESE SHORT STATION BUS 2KM TRIPS ARE BY CAR PARTNERSHIPS REFORM 943 550 PEDESTRIANS CYCLIST INJURED ON GM IN GM, OVER INJURED ON GM GM LOCAL WALKING AND OF ADULTS ARE NOT ROADS (2017) ROADS (2017) CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE PLAN (LWCIP) ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN BUT WE STILL HAVE A HIGH NUMBER OF PEDESTRIAN GOOD HEALTH. 1/3 AND CYCLE INJURIES

10 PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT

TRANSPORT IS THE COST OF DOING NOTHING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES TO RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT

£20bn 1200 LOW AIR QUALITY ECONOMIC COST IF EARLY DEATHS EMISSIONS ACTION PLAN WE DO NOT TACKLE PER YEAR DUE STRATEGY CLIMATE CHANGE & TO ILLNESSES 30% LINKED TO AIR POLLUTION CLIMATE CHANGE GREEN SUMMIT OF CARBON EMISSIONS AND LOW “SPRINGBOARD EMISSIONS TO A GREEN IMPLEMENTATION CITY REGION” PLAN PREDICTED WEATHER CHANGES LOW CLEAN AIR CARBON PLAN AND ANNUAL HUB MEAN TEMP RISE 13% OF UP TO CO2 5 YEAR 2.3°C ENVIRONMENTAL INCREASE PLAN 2020 48% IN WINTER CARBON REDUCTION 1990 – 2020 RAINFALL & A TARGET OF 80 – 90% BY 2050

TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

BY 2033 FUTURE PROOFING TRANSPORT AUTOMOTIVE TECH GREATER FOR GREATER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER WORTH ESTIMATED WILL MEET THE UK GREATER MANCHESTER’S RESEARCH AND TARGET FOR FULL DIGITAL STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT FIBRE BROADBAND IN £900 PROGRAMME ALL HOUSEHOLDS. BILLION GLOBALLY BY 2025 BY 2027, TECHNOLOGIES WILL BE ACCESSIBLE TO MOST PEOPLE LIVING IN GREATER 5G MANCHESTER. CONNECTED, AUTONOMOUS, SHARED, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES C.

DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MOBILITY 80 TECHNOLOGY AS A SERVICE BILLION IS GROWING THINGS WILL BE EXPONENTIALLY CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET BY 2025 2000 2020

11 04. A more customer- focused transport system: Our Network principles

Meeting the transport needs of our residents, businesses and visitors is at the heart of our 2040 Transport Strategy. We are mindful that our transport system carries both people and goods, and we must consider the needs of both as we plan for the future.

We have therefore established seven mutually reinforcing principles, set out below, which we will apply consistently as we improve Greater Manchester’s transport system to ensure that it meets the needs of all customers.

Integrated

Well Maintained Inclusive and Resillient

Our customers Residents Businesses Visitors Safe and Healthy Secure

Environmentally Reliable Responsible

12 05. Our Greater Manchester modal principles for 2040

Our GM Transport Strategy 2040 focuses principally on creating an integrated, well-co- ordinated transport system which supports a wide range of different travel needs.

The Strategy supports our city-region’s long-term environmental ambition for carbon neutrality by 2038 and the Greater Manchester Clean Air Plan, which aims to bring NO2 emissions within legal limits as quickly as possible. It highlights our intention to make best use of powers included in the Bus Services Act (as well as our existing powers) to give effect to our Vision for Bus, and provides an overview of our plans to establish Greater Manchester as a modern, pedestrian and cycle-friendly city-region, including through the Bee Network.

However, there are some modal principles which cut across the entire strategy and define our specific aspirations for bus, rail, Metrolink, active travel and highways. .Our Greater Manchester-wide priorities and principles, which apply across the whole of the transport strategy, are summarised below.

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13 06. Our 2040 Spatial Themes

The 2040 Transport Strategy is structured around five types of trip - called ‘spatial themes’ - to enable an integrated set of interventions to be developed to address specific issues in different parts of the city-region and for different types of travel. These are:

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Connected Neighbourhoods

— Our ambition is for local neighbourhoods to be safer and more pleasant to walk and cycle around, with the impact of traffic on local roads reduced and a year-on- year reduction in collisions. — To achieve our Right Mix vision, we want to make walking and cycling the natural choice for short journeys. — Ensuring that our town centres are attractive and well connected - and that interchanges are easier to access - will increase the proportion of journeys made by public transport and encourage people to use local shops and other facilities. — Neighbourhood-focused policies, including Streets for All and the Bee Network, will both increase the attractiveness of living in connected neighbourhoods, and increase the mode-share of active travel.

Travel Across the Wider City Centre

— Our ambition is that our regenerated town centres are easy to get to, particularly by sustainable modes, and pleasant to walk around and spend time in. — Journeys across the area, between centres or to other major destinations will be made easier through improved orbital public transport and cycle connections and less congested roads. — Road collisions will fall, year on year, moving towards our goal of reducing deaths and serious injuries as close as possible to zero. — The significant new development expected in Greater Manchester will be accessible by sustainable modes of transport, so that the impact of the extra trips on the road network is minimised. 14 Travel to and Within Our Regional Centre

— Our ambition is for a well-connected, zero-carbon Regional Centre at the heart of the North - served by High Speed 2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail Services - offering residents, employees and visitors a great place to live, work and visit. — To support our Right Mix vision, we are aiming for more morning peak trips into the city centre to be made on foot, by bicycle or public transport before 2040. This means fewer cars in the Regional Centre so we can give more space for people to walk and cycle and to create more liveable, cleaner and greener places. — Freight and servicing will also be better managed to minimise the negative impacts of commercial vehicles on the Regional Centre.

Delivering Better City-to-City Links

— Our ambition is to see an increasingly productive, inclusive and prosperous region, supported by transformed connectivity between the major cities of the North of England, and to the Midlands, London and Scotland. — There will be a step-change in quality, speed and reliability of our city-to-city rail links, allowing travel to Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield in 30 minutes or less and to London in just over an hour. The strategic highway network will offer more reliable journey times. — More freight will be moved by rail and water. — Transformed infrastructure, smart ticketing and customer information will encourage more trans-northern journeys to be made by public transport.

Global Connectivity

— Our ambition is to support growth at the Airport and the adjacent Enterprise Zone by bringing many more people within one- and two- hour rail journey times to improve the reliability of the highway network near the Airport; and to ensure that public transport services better meet the needs of Airport customers and employees. — The Atlantic Gateway corridor will be developed to maximise the sustainable movement of goods by water and rail. — We will support the development of the Port Salford area as a tri-modal (rail, water and road) logistics park and development zone to improve access to global markets via the Port of Liverpool.

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GM Hub City–Regional links 15 07. GM-Wide policies

In addition to our priorities for each of the spatial Policy 8: We will work with partners to deliver themes, there are a number of policies that we transport interventions that improve the health of need to apply consistently across the whole Greater Manchester residents, including: reducing transport system to make sure that our Greater pollution from motor vehicles; increasing levels of Manchester-wide principles and priorities are at physical activity; improving access to healthcare; the heart of everything we do. These policies are and reducing social isolation. as follows: Policy 9: We will work with partners and key stakeholders to bring nitrogen dioxide (NO ) Policy 1: We will work with partners to ensure that ² modes of transport such as taxis, private hire levels on local roads within legal limits, and to reduce levels of particulate matter, CO and noise vehicles and other demand responsive services ² - as well as shared mobility solutions, including emissions from vehicles. car clubs, cycle hire and other forms of shared transport - are available, and fully integrated into Policy 10: We will work with partners to reduce the Greater Manchester transport network. carbon emissions from transport, to support Greater Manchester's ambition to be net zero Policy 2: Working with partners, we will deliver carbon by 2038; and to implement measures to integrated pricing and payment systems across ensure our transport system is resilient to the the transport network, including smart ticketing impacts of climate change. for public transport, to support the delivery of ‘Mobility as a Service’. Policy 11: We will work with partners, including the Canals and Rivers Trust, to enhance green and Policy 3: We will maintain a programme of blue infrastructure to provide a safe and attractive interventions designed to encourage people to environment for walking and cycling. make sustainable journeys. We will support this through journey planning tools and information Policy 12: We will aim to minimise the impact of to encourage travel behaviour change and mode transport on the built and natural environment - shift, and in order to make the most efficient use including townscape, the historic environment, of available capacity (particularly during peak cultural heritage, landscape, habitats and periods). biodiversity, geodiversity, water quality, pollution, flood risk and use of resource - and will deliver Policy 4: We will work with developers to ensure environmental enhancements and biodiversity that new developments are accessible by net gain where possible. sustainable modes, and to reduce transport emissions and impacts on the highway network. Policy 13: We will continue to deliver measures, and put in place appropriate management Policy 5: We will work with public transport systems, to improve the reliability of the transport operators, Network Rail and other partners to network. ensure that all transport infrastructure, vehicles and information are as accessible as possible Policy 14: We will work with operators and other for all our customers, regardless of their age and partners to improve safety and to tackle crime mobility. and anti-social behaviour on the transport network. Policy 6: We will work with partners to better integrate accessible travel services across Policy 15: Working with partners, including Greater Manchester, to increase availability and through the Safer Roads Partnership, we will convenience for customers. deliver initiatives aimed at improving safety on the highway network, with a particular focus on Policy 7: As we plan our transport network, we supporting those who are walking and cycling. will support the creation of a more inclusive economy for Greater Manchester by considering how best to improve the prospects of people living in deprived communities - including by ensuring that more people can access jobs, education, skills training and childcare.

16 Policy 16: We will work with partners to support Policy 24: Working with partners, we will work to a rapid transition towards low emissions vehicles establish and promote one integrated Greater in Greater Manchester, including developing a Manchester public transport network (‘Our clear strategy on the Electric Vehicle Charging Network’), making it easy for customers to plan, Infrastructure network required to provide greater make and pay for their journeys using different confidence to residents and businesses to invest modes and services. in electric vehicles. Policy 25: We will seek to ensure a consistent Policy 17: We will trial transport innovations standard of facilities at transport hubs, to understand their relevance and potential appropriate for their size and function, and will applications for Greater Manchester, and to work with partners to improve access to them by ensure we have robust policies in place. all modes.

Policy 18: We will provide a unified, Greater Policy 26: We will make best use of powers Manchester approach to managing the Key Route included in the Bus Services Act, as well as our Network (KRN) of roads, in line with our Streets for existing powers, to give effect to our Vision for All Strategy principles, and work with Highways Bus. England to co-ordinate this with the management of the Strategic Route Network (SRN). Policy 27: We will ensure that accessible coach parking and set down/pick-up points are available Policy 19: We will work, including through the at key locations. GM logistics forums, to improve journey times and reliability for deliveries, and to reduce the Policy 28: We will work with the taxi and private environmental impact of logistics. hire industry to develop minimum standards for policy/regulation and operation across Greater Policy 20: We will ensure our streets Manchester, and work with Government to are welcoming and safe spaces for all strengthen national legislation. people, enabling more travel on foot, bike and public transport while creating better places that Policy 29: We will expand the coverage and support local communities and businesses. capacity of our rapid transit network (Metrolink, Rail and Bus Rapid Transit), to deliver improved Policy 21: We will introduce appropriate bus connectivity to employment and other priority measures on the highway network to opportunities within the city-region. improve bus reliability and will keep existing measures under review to ensure effectiveness. Policy 30: Working with partners, we will develop This will include developing proposals for “Quality a rail network with the capacity, reliability, speed, Bus Transit” corridors on key routes. resilience and quality to support growth in the Northern economy and extend the benefits of Policy 22: We will work to improve and maintain HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail throughout the condition and resilience of our road network, Greater Manchester. drawing on best practice. Policy 31: We will continue to work with DfT, Policy 23: We will work with partners to improve Network Rail and Transport for the North to secure walking and cycling facilities across Greater greater local control of rail stations, and to deliver Manchester, including through the development greater local accountability for all rail-based of a strategic walking and cycling network (the services, within Greater Manchester. ‘Bee Network’), wayfinding and cycle parking, and supporting ‘Streets for All’ design guidance to ensure consistently high quality standards across the network.

17 08. Making it happen

Delivery and funding

Greater Manchester has a strong track record for delivery, built on a clear sense of direction and a strong system of governance that allows us to develop and refine priorities over time in support of our wider economic strategy.

Our five year transport Delivery Plans (available at tfgm.com/strategy) set out the specific schemes we will deliver, and explain how Greater Manchester is developing its future transport programmes in terms of funding, delivery and ways of working.

The main source of funding for transport is from central government. As part of the Greater Manchester Devolution Deal, Government committed to establishing a multi- year transport settlement for the medium-term to reflect the growth potential of the conurbation and enable us to plan ahead and use resources more effectively than is possible with short-term funding streams.

The Greater Manchester Infrastructure Programme (GMIP) has been developed to enable the development of infrastructure in a comprehensive, placed-based manner, looking both at local schemes and the strategic programmes that support them at a city-region level. The aim is for full integration of the process that links planning, prioritisation and then funding and delivery.

18 Measuring success

We need to know whether our policies and measures are having the desired effect and are helping to deliver our strategy, including by making meaningful progress towards our Right Mix ambitions, with more trips being made by active travel and public transport. If these measures are not working, we will need to adjust the strategy.

We monitor this through a number of ‘key performance indicators’, which reflect the core principles of the strategy. We aim to improve on each of these, year-on-year. Our progress is reported in the annual update of our Delivery Plan.

The 2040 Strategy is ambitious but also flexible enough to reflect the fact that priorities may change depending on factors such as the location of major new development; the pace of reform in service delivery (which affects the powers available to us); and, importantly, the level of funding available to us from central Government. Further devolution of transport functions - to a Greater Manchester level - is required, to equip our city-region with the ability to create and efficiently manage a cleaner, more efficient and integrated transport network.

We will take a consistent and long-term approach to tackling the major challenges set out in this document, while also reviewing our Strategy on a regular basis to respond to changing trends and new opportunities and priorities. This approach is supported by plans that sit under this Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040 and cover the short and medium term including: a series of Five-Year Transport Delivery Plans; Local Implementation Plans (for each of the ten Greater Manchester local authorities) and the development of sub-strategies including: the Streets for All Strategy, the City Centre Transport Strategy, the Local Bus Strategy, the Rapid Transit Strategy and the Freight Strategy. Our 2040 Vision - and the Right Mix - will not be easy to deliver but, in preparing this long-term Strategy, we believe we are putting in place the right framework to face up to the challenges of the next 20 years.

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