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. 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