Streets for All is about creating better places for a future Greater Manchester, creating streets that balance the movement of people and goods with the inclusion of more people-friendly places. Streets for All explores the critical role that streets across the region play in creating sustainable, healthy and resilient places, with a focus on people rather than vehicles.

The programme supports the vision of the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040 with its ambition that by this date we have one million more sustainable journeys per day. Approaching streets as places for people, not just traffic lanes is an essential part of our plan to support this ambition.

A consortium led by Mott MacDonald and including Broadway Malyan and Phil Jones Associates has been commissioned to examine a 50+ mile orbital corridor connecting eastern and northern routes around Greater Manchester between Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton and Wigan. The teams studying the radial and city centre corridors include WSP, BDP, City of Trees, Steer and PlanitIE.

Using a combination of data appraisal and site analysis, the three separate studies will define a set of recommendations around movement and place driven street typologies and locations for a series of interventions that will address key priorities such as improving connectivity, tackling congestion, reducing air pollution, encouraging active travel, supporting public transport, revitalising town centres and enabling new developments.

In helping to achieve TfGM’s aspiration of a million more sustainable journeys per day by 2040, the Streets for All initiative will help enable economic growth and regeneration, reduce congestion, improve air quality and ultimately the health of the region as well as supporting community cohesion by creating places where people want to live and spend time.

With such a wide range of potentially transformative outcomes, the Streets for All initiative is about much more than just redesigning roads: it is about crafting healthy future places.