2025 Commitments
In 2025 we made the following ten commitments to help deliver our short term and long-term goals.
Ensure every part of the Bee Active Network is universally accessible.
Deliver a proposal to carry bikes and non-standard cycles on trams, following a pilot in 2024.
Work with partners to deliver the new Vision Zero Strategy and Action Plan (launched in November 2024) to eliminate all deaths and life-changing injuries on Greater Manchester roads by 2040, including pressing for change at a national level on issues such as pavement parking and sentencing.
Publish a plan to expand the Starling Bank Bike hire scheme in Manchester, Salford and Trafford, to more areas of Greater Manchester.
Integrate Starling Bank Bikes into the Bee Network fare structure and app, making it easier for people to make seamless journeys by bike, bus, tram and train with a single fare.
Continue to explore new offers - including for 16-18-year-old ‘Our Pass’ holders – to encourage use of Starling Bank Bikes and TfGM’s Cycle Hubs, and review our Cycle Hubs provision in line with the development of wider Travel Hub plans.
Continue to use information gathered as part of the 2023 comprehensive network audit to shape future active travel network planning, including investing more in walking and wheeling infrastructure, developing a Strategic Cycle Network, piloting an approach to wayfinding on the network and progressing a policy in Access Controls. Our ongoing aim is to bring more infrastructure up to Bee Network standard, including fixing remedial issues, making it easier for people to cycle, walk and wheel.
Continue to share infrastructure updates to track how much of the active travel network is being improved. By spring 2025, 130km of segregated walking, wheeling and cycling routes were completed across the city-region. We expect that to reach 176km by 2027.
Support the delivery of the new School Travel Strategy, to help more young people walk, wheel, scoot, cycle or use public transport to get to school and help support Greater Manchester’s ambitions for improved air quality, by developing a Travel to School programme in line with the Mayor’s manifesto commitment to deliver 100 School Streets by 2028.
Work with GM’s local authorities and the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprises (VCSE) sector to create a wide range of training offers to suit local needs, open to all Greater Manchester residents in 2025. Continue to work with Bikeability to meet their ambition for every child to be able to achieve level 2 Bikeability in 2025.
(The original 10 recommendations were updated in 2025, following approval at the Bee Network Committee of the 2024 annual report and its recommendations. )