Melbourne can be Manchester

Walking, cycling and public transport can work well in a large city like Melbourne. An example is greater Manchester, which has a comparable area to greater Melbourne.

Winner of the Sustainable Urban Mobility award

Greater Manchester recently won the 7th Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) award

Plans to invest 3 billion over 10 years

Greater Manchester plans to invest 1.5 billion pounds (or 3 billion Australian dollars) over 10 years in high quality infrastructure for walking and cycling, because they’ve identified that each dollar invested returns over four dollars in taxpayer benefits:

Walking and cycling networks

The plan calls for walking and cycling networks of very high quality, across the whole metropolitan area:

Conclusion

Greater Manchester is delivering best practice urban planning across a large metropolitan region – our local (Yarra) and state (Victoria) governments should learn from this example.