Useful links and contacts

See below for a collection of useful information and sources to engage and inform yourself about active travel, both in our local area and beyond!

Useful links

Feedback

Leave feedback on what active travel changes you want to see in Burnage and Levenshulme here.

Original proposals

• The original bee network proposal for all of Greater Manchester is here
• Click here for the Levenshulme bee network original vision map (high quality downloadable PDFs at the bottom of linked page)
• For information on how this map was produced, check out the Sustrans feasibility study on Levenshulme filtered neighbourhood
• To see what inspired the Levenshulme Bee Network original proposal for filtered neighbourhoods see the Waltham Forest campaign

Other documents

Made to Move report 2018: Chris Boardman’s 15 step plan for a fully joined up walking and cycling network in Greater Manchester

Introduction to a Low Traffic Neighbourhood by living streets. Find out the details of what an LTN could do for the area!

Key contacts

Here are people you can contact about the project to give your opinion on its progress

Councillors: Levenshulme

• Councillor Basat Sheikh: cllr.b.sheikh@manchester.gov.uk
• Councillor Dzidra Noor: cllr.d.noor@manchester.gov.uk
• Councillor Bernard Stone: cllr.b.stone@manchester.gov.uk

Councillors: Burnage

• Councillor Azra Ali: cllr.azra.ali@manchester.gov.uk
• Councillor Ben Clay: cllr.ben.clay@manchester.gov.uk
• Councillor Bev Craig: cllr.b.craig@manchester.gov.uk

Councillor: Executive Member for Environment, Planning and Transport

Councillor Angeliki Stogia: cllr.a.stogia@manchester.gov.uk

(For more details on councillors click here)

Other local groups and organisations

• Transport for Greater Manchester have some really good maps and advice for people that want to help with cycling and walking
• GM Walking
• Sustrans
• Living Streets
• CyclingUK
• A6 cycle action group
• Manchester Friends of the Earth (Concerned with looking after the environment and pollution levels, links to Clean Air Levenshulme)

Stuff to listen to!

• Streets ahead: An active travel podcast
• Active travel podcast: an active travel podcast hosted by Rachel Aldred, professor of transport at the University of Westminster
• BBC sounds newscast episode: On Your Bike
• Feel better live more with Dr Rangan Chatterjee episodes:
  • Chris Boardman: Making Movement Easier
  • Shane Omara: Why walking is the superpower you didn’t know you had
  • Dan Buettner: The secret to a Long and Happy life