DRAFT CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY TO 2040 SUMMARY Getting from A to Bee Foreword At the heart of Greater Manchester, the city centre of Manchester, incorporating areas of central Salford, forms one of the world’s most renowned areas for hospitality, culture, sport, arts — and the North’s leading business, retail and education centre. Our bold, 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. Our strategy reflects the thousands of voices who’ve contributed to previous discussion and consultation — city centre residents, commuters, and business and interest groups — about how they want to travel into and around Greater Manchester’s capital, and how they would shape the next phase of its investment in rail, trams, buses, cycling, 2 “Our vision is for a well-connected, pedestrian facilities and public spaces — and more. 3 What’s emerged is a strategy that boldly reflects the strongest calls: DRAFT CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY TRANSPORT CITY CENTRE DRAFT zero-carbon city centre at the more, pleasant space for pedestrians and bikes; cleaner, greener more STRATEGY TRANSPORT CITY CENTRE DRAFT sustainable travel options that keep the air clean and cut carbon; less heart of the North, offering congestion; useful, usable public transport that connects us; parking and deliveries that don’t choke our streets, and clever use of technology our residents, employees and that makes all this happen. visitors a great place to work, We’ve taken great care, in this draft strategy, to try to make sure that the ambitions you see here are right for the people and businesses using our live and visit.” city centres. Successful and vibrant cities need high-quality transport connections and we are excited to hear your thoughts on whether you feel this strategy is a document you support. We look forward to hearing your views. Councillor Angeliki Stogia Councillor Roger Jones Executive Member for Environment, Executive Support Planning and Transport Member for Transport Manchester City Council Salford City Council 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 England outside of London, and is the main engine for Greater Manchester’s City centre area economy. It is home 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: d oa R ck ri 2 de 6 re A F B — Metrolink’s Second City Crossing; u r d y 4 a 6 N o er Irwell 6 R Riv e A w B r R — Oxford Road bus and cycle enhancements; o a d m d d a A a h S 5 o d t R l r 6 O e le e University of a — The redevelopment of St Peter’s Square into a high-quality pedestrian t d Salford Victoria ch A o 6 R Salford Crescent Shudehill environment; and Exchange Square A6 t — The Ordsall Chord scheme, which provides a direct rail connection l S pe Ancoats Cha Salford between Piccadilly and Victoria stations. Central Market M602 Piccadilly Street Gardens SALFORD MANCHESTER New Islington Our aim is to be a zero-carbon city-region by 2038. Shaped by this strategy, Deansgate Piccadilly Re gents transport and growth in the city centre will play a big part in our journey to 4 Road A Manchester St Peters 5 5 7 Central Square Deansgate- t zero-carbon and tackling the climate emergency. tree Castlefield h S ort Ashton Ol Whitw d Road A635 DRAFT CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY TRANSPORT CITY CENTRE DRAFT Anchorage STRATEGY TRANSPORT CITY CENTRE DRAFT Deansgate Ardwick Manchester In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, our plans focus on how the city centre HOME Oxford Road Salford A57(M) can lead a strong, sustainable, healthy and inclusive recovery, taking the Quays Salford Quays Manchester Cornbrook Metropolitan University achievements made since 2010 to the next level. U p A p 6 e Old Trafford r 6 Exchange Quay 5 A B r S ad o to o o c By 2040, there is potential for 100,000 more jobs and 50,000 more homes in R k k r p Wharfside e o st S rt e t R P r h University of e o C r a i Manchester e d Pomona n t the city centre. Much of this is driven by planned growth accounted for in A c 6 e A s 3 s 4 R o Key a Greater Manchester’s plan for Homes, Jobs and the Environment, the Spatial d Manchester Hulme A Royal Infirmary 5 1 0 Framework. This includes providing the right locations for homes and City centre area 3 creating jobs to ensure the future prosperity of the city-region, whilst Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2020 prioritising development of brownfield sites and reducing unnecessary green belt The City Centre Transport release. Planning for the future city centre Strategy was the subject requires us to balance sometimes of a focused ‘listening’ competing demands, as growth puts exercise in summer 2018 and additional pressure on transport systems targeted engagement during and streets. winter 2019/2020. This draft strategy has been shaped by this engagement. This Draft City Centre Transport Strategy for 2040 has been produced following input from residents, commuters, businesses, visitors, transport Background operators and other stakeholders to understand the existing transport For many years we have been transforming the city centre, to make challenges and future aspirations for the city centre of those that use it each it a place where more people choose to live, work and spend leisure day. We hope you agree that it sets out a bold and progressive vision for time. We have also been working with transport partners to make the future and we look forward to receiving feedback prior to finalising the investments so it is an easier place to travel to and from, and to reduce document early next year. the number of trips made by car. The figures below highlight our success To support our vision, our aim is for 90% of morning peak trips into the to date in achieving this. How people travel in the future will continue to city centre to be made on foot, by bicycle or public transport before 2040 change, not just as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this strategy (as highlighted in the figure below). This means less cars in the city centre aims to help support this modal shift to work for everyone. so we can have cleaner air, support our carbon reduction targets and rebalance street space enabling us to make walking the main mode of 2,477 14,463 17,671 28,709 22,669 22,391 2019 Car travel for getting around. 2,132 2018 12,734 18,100 28,527 21,210 23,377 1,892 Bus Car 2017 11,821 14,679 28,669 21,727 23,779 1,781 12% 6% 16% 34% 22% 10% 2040 19,000 9,500 25,300 53,800 43,800 15,800 11,773 13,183 28,533 22,640 25,085 Bus 2016 1,648 Rail 3% 2015 10,506 10,942 25,435 23,092 24,988 3,500 Rail 1,638 10,277 10,731 24,914 23,038 25,835 6 14% 16% 29% 20% 18% 2014 Metrolink 7 2025 16,600 18,900 34,300 23,700 23,700 Metrolink 1,542 2013 10,348 9,086 25,949 23,300 26,815 1,476 DRAFT CITY CENTRE TRANSPORT STRATEGY TRANSPORT CITY CENTRE DRAFT 2% Cycle STRATEGY TRANSPORT CITY CENTRE DRAFT 2,500 Cycle 2012 11,009 7,877 22,414 22,286 25,734 1,190 13% 16% 26% 21% 21% Walk 2019 14,500 17,700 28,700 22,700 22,400 2011 9,207 6,832 22,899 22,438 26,801 1,190 Walk 2010 9,599 6,448 21,291 23,418 27,402 0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000 140000 160000 180000 1,102 8,877 6,716 20,386 24,615 27,021 Inbound Trips (07:30–09:30) 2009 0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000 Inbound Trips (07:30–09:30) Responses to the TfGM Covid-19 recovery survey suggested there The most successful cities of the future will be those offering the best quality will be a significant shake-up in Since 2009 there has been a successful of life and a range of job and leisure opportunities, reducing the need to travel commuting travel patterns, with many reduction in the number of cars entering the by locating homes close to jobs and services, and enabling ease of local respondents suggesting that they will city centre, falling from over 27,000 in 2009 travel by walking, cycling, public transport and new zero-carbon forms of be doing less commuting in the future. to under 23,000 a decade later in the morning micro-mobility. As set out in the Greater Manchester Strategy, a high quality Estimates (based on how respondents peak.