Challenges for Greater Manchester

The main challenges for Greater Manchester that this Plan seeks to tackle are how to:

  • ensure that economic growth is not impeded by constraints on the transport system including
    • securing investment for the delivery of the Metrolink Phase 3 extensions
    • tackling congestion on the highway network and improving journey reliability
    • ensuring that bus patronage increases and that service quality is enhanced
    • taking further steps to encourage integration between modes
    • encouraging more sustainable transport for short journeys, and especially addressing the decline in walking trips
    • reducing the congestion and safety problems caused by the 'school run'
    • securing long-overdue investment in rail system capacity and passenger facilities
    • enforcing the traffic regulations necessary to ease congestion and improve safety, in relation to current driver behaviour
  • continue the improvement of safety and security for both road and public transport users
  • improve air quality to meet Government prescribed levels, through transport actions
  • address problems of poor accessibility to jobs, health facilities and fresh food shops and education facilities
  • maintain highways and structures in good condition  to meet the demands of cumulative traffic growth over the past years, and expected growth over the LTP2 period
 

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