Our plans to make bus links between
Manchester city centre and Leigh,
Atherton, Middleton and Parrs Wood
Greater Manchester Bus Priority Package
September 2012
www.tfgm.com
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What is the bus priority package?
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has been
working with local councils to make plans to make bus
journeys better by:
• making more buses arrive on time
• making bus services more reliable
• making buses travel from a wider area across Greater
Manchester, into Manchester city centre.
The plan is to make bus routes better between:
• Leigh
• Atherton
• Middleton
• Parrs Wood and
• Manchester city centre
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Tyldesley
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Boothstown
Blackley
Swinton
Pendlebury
Harpurhey
Collyhurst
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SALFORD
MANCHESTER
Central
Manchester
Hospitals
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There are also plans to enable buses to travel more easily
through Manchester city centre.
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This will reduce the need for passengers to change buses
and walk between city centre stops when travelling from
one place to another.
This will also help people make a journey by using
different forms of public transport (like Metrolink trams
and trains).
TfGM will be looking to spend over £100 million to make
the changes, which will create 25 miles of bus routes
across Greater Manchester.
This will be the biggest amount of money spent to make
the bus network better in a long time.
This will add to the money TfGM has already spent on
the Quality Bus Corridor scheme, which made other
important bus routes in Greater Manchester better.
What are the benefits of the scheme?
It will make bus journeys faster, arrive on time and more
reliable so journeys will be better for passengers.
Bus
Stop
This will make it easier and better for people to use buses
to get to work, schools and colleges, GP’s surgeries, and
shopping and leisure.
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The plans will also help bring in more money to make
businesses better because more people can travel to
places by bus.
What changes would be seen along the
routes?
Because the buses will get better, more people would
want to use them.
More than 8 miles of new bus lanes will be introduced
either on or at the side of existing roads.
There will be some sections of road – such as Oxford Road
near the universities and hospital site and certain places
within Manchester city centre – that will be closed to
general traffic with access allowed only to buses, hackney
carriages (Black Cabs), emergency vehicles and bicycles.
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BOLTON
Greater Manchester’s first guided busway will be built on
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a 4.5 mile route
between
Leigh and Ellenbrook, on which
only special buses will be able to travel.
WIGAN
Ince
Hindley
M60
Atherton
Tyldesley
Leigh
Higher
Folds
Ellenbrook
Boothstown
Swinton
Pendlebury
M602
SALFORD
M6
M62
reduce traffic jams and work will be done to stop cars and
vans from parking and unloading goods in some places.
Parking bays for people who live and go shopping in this
area will also be put in place along parts of Rochdale
Road.
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Road layouts
and traffic signals will be improved to help
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As well as the plans to make bus services better, TfGM
also want to make travel better for people who cycle and
walk.
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Plans are being made to make roads better in residential
areas of Moss Side along Lloyd Street and Cambridge
Street to try to stop drivers who do not live in these
places from using the roads as a short cut.
How will this affect bus services?
The plans cover some of the busiest bus routes in Greater
Manchester.
TfGM is talking to bus operators to make sure that the
future bus services which run along them meet the needs
of all passengers.
For example, the plans will help buses to travel more
easily through Manchester city centre, so that passengers
do not need to change buses (if they need to do so), and
walk between city centre stops.
This will help more people to get to their destination in
one bus journey.
TfGM will keep working with bus operators to agree which
bus services will run along the routes.
Bus timetables, plans of routes and bus fares and ways a
person can buy a ticket if they need to do so will also be
put in place as the plans are made.
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BOLTON
WIGAN
Ince
Hindley
TfGM will haveMmore
control over bus services that
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will run along the guided busway between Leigh and
Ellenbrook.
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Atherton
Tyldesley
Leigh
Higher
Folds
Ellenbrook
Swinton
Pendlebury
Boothstown
M602
SALFORD
M6
M62
0
M6
During the day there will be at least four buses an hour
between Leigh and Manchester, and four buses an hour
between Atherton and Manchester.
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This means there will be a total of eight buses an hour
between Tyldesley and Manchester along this route.
All of the services will run through Manchester city centre
to the Central Manchester Hospitals site on Oxford Road.
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The services will not run as often in the evenings and on
Sundays.
TfGM will be able to say what the bus fares and
timetables will be shortly before the new bus services
begin.
How will these proposals affect car
drivers?
The plans are to make Greater Manchester’s bus network
better without causing too many problems for people
who drive cars and lorries.
For people who drive cars there will be:
• better traffic signals to make sure that these help cars
to keep moving at busy times of the day (rush hour)
• bus lanes ending before junctions so that it will be
easier for people who drive.
This will help people who drive pass through road
junctions and traffic lights quickly.
There will also be new road signs installed to help
motorists find the best way to their destination.
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Shaping the future of bus travel
Introducing
Cross City
Bus Travel
between East Didsbury, Manchester,
Middleton and Salford
Help shape the future
Get involved by 24 December 2009
You may have seen these plans before.
In 2009, TfGM did some work to find out what people
thought and their ideas about some of these plans.
We used some of the things people told us to help make
these plans.
Since then – as well as working with local councils and
bus operators – TfGM has talked to residents, businesses,
universities and hospitals along the bus routes to find out
more about what the plans could help to make better.
TfGM now has the money we need to do the work.
Although some work along these routes can already be
seen – such as the guided busway junctions at Sale Lane
in Tyldesley, and Newearth Road in Ellenbrook, much
more work will be taking place over the next three years.
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What happens next
Permission
TfGM already has some of the necessary powers and
permissions we need to start this work. Powers means
local councils have said we can do the work.
There will be more consultation with local residents,
businesses and communities on the full plans in the
coming months because TfGM still need to get permission
to do some of the work.
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USUAL
Once all the plans have been discussed, TfGM will start to
carry out the work in stages to make sure that everyone
can get on with their day to day business as much as
possible.
All work will be finished in 2015.
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What we are doing
When
Guided busway between Leigh and Ellenbrook
• Local consultation on stop location at Higher Folds /
Tyldesley West
2012
• 4.5 mile guided busway to be built, so that buses can
avoid busy traffic
2013 planned
start of work
• Seven fully accessible bus stops along guided busway,
with bus shelters and CCTV
2013 planned
start of work
• Path to run alongside busway that can be used by
walkers, cyclists and horse riders
2013 planned
start of work
In Atherton and Leigh
• Local consultation on scheme detail
2012
• Working with Wigan Council to improve the route
between Atherton and Tyldesley
2013 planned
start of work
• Local consultation
2012
• Bus lane along Spinning Jenny Way, Leigh
2013 planned
start of work
• Park & Ride sites at East Bond Street, Tyldesley
Interchange and the M60/A580 junction
2014 planned
start of work
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What we are doing
When
On the East Lancs Road (A580)
• Building 2.5 miles of new bus lane alongside existing
highway
2012 planned
start of work
• Converting 2.25 miles of existing highway to bus lane
(there will be a minimum of two lanes available for
general traffic)
2012 planned
start of work
• Improving junctions along A580 to improve bus
reliability, crossing facilities for pedestrians, and
minimise congestion
2012 planned
start of work
• Buses to use existing bus lanes introduced as part of
recent Chapel Street / A6 improvements
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What we are doing
When
On Rochdale Road through Middleton, Blackley,
Harpurhey and Collyhurst to Manchester city centre
Local consultation on scheme detail
2012
• Adding 2.8 kilometres (1¾ miles) of new bus lanes
along Rochdale Road, largely from within existing
carriageway
2013 planned
start of work
• Adding around 600m of cycle lanes
2013 planned
start of work
• Adding parking bays for residents and shoppers at key
locations in Collyhurst, Harpurhey and Blackley.
2013 planned
start of work
• Improving some pedestrian crossings
2013 planned
start of work
In Manchester city centre
• Local consultation on scheme detail
2013
• Changing traffic flows on sections of Aytoun Street,
Portland Street, Sackville Street and Chorlton Street
2014 planned
start of work
• Adding cycle lanes at northern end of Sackville Street
2014 planned
start of work
2014 planned
• Sections of Portland Street and Princess Street to be
used only by buses, cycles and hackney carriages (black start of work
cabs) and closed to general traffic
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What we are doing
When
On Oxford Road from Manchester city centre to the
Central Manchester Hospitals site
• Local consultation on scheme detail
2012
• Changing junctions, adding speed reduction measures
and improving pedestrian and cycling facilities along
Lloyd Street / Cambridge Street to discourage this
residential area from being used by additional through
traffic
2013 planned
start of work
• Local consultation on this scheme detail
2013
• Improved pedestrian crossings along Upper Brook
Street improving access between Ardwick and
Manchester University/Oxford Road along with
localised widening of the road to improve the flow of
traffic
2013 planned
start of work
• Adding cycle lanes along Oxford Street, Oxford Road
and Grosvenor Street
2014 planned
start of work
• 1.6 kilometre (1 mile) section of Oxford Road to be
2014 planned
closed between Grosvenor Street and Hathersage Road start of work
to general traffic. Can only be used by buses, hackney
carriages (black cabs), emergency vehicles and cycles
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Additional scheme-wide benefits
• Improved signing on roads so that car drivers can find
the best route to their destination
• Adds to money already spent in bus lanes along
Wilmslow Road, Rochdale Road and East Lancs Road
(A580)
• Older bus stops to be upgraded to make them more
accessible
The detailed plans and times of when work will be carried
out can be seen on this web link:
www.tfgm.com/buspriority
How to find out more
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is working with
Manchester City Council, Rochdale Council, Salford City
Council and Wigan Council to make sure that all residents,
businesses and other relevant people and organisations
are kept up to date on the plans.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which
represents each of the 10 local authorities in Greater
Manchester, and bus operators are also working with
TfGM to help with the plans.
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TfGM will keep talking to local residents, businesses and
communities along the routes.
Where it has not already been agreed there will be
community consultations to get the views of residents
and businesses on how the plans will look in their
area – all of whom will be told in advance if any work or
consultation is to be undertaken nearby.
If you want to know more about these plans or how they
will affect you or your local community, please get in
touch:
•
by email [email protected]
•
online www.tfgm.com/buspriority
•
by post No
stamp
needed
Transport for Greater Manchester Bus Priority
FREEPOST RRHE-RKUU-KSJY
Manchester
M1 3BG
•
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