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Vision Zero is Greater Manchester’s ambition to eliminate road death and life changing injury by 2040, with a target to achieve a 50 per cent reduction by 2030. The intention is to increase safe, healthy and equitable mobility for all.

Vision Zero engagement activity

We asked individuals and organisations who live and travel in Greater Manchester to share their views on the draft Vision Zero Strategy and draft Vision Zero Action Plan. The feedback has been used to inform final versions of the strategy and action plan, which were formally adopted by the GMCA committee on 29 November 2024.

Draft Vision Zero Strategy

Between February and March 2024, over 1000 people shared their views and experiences on the city-region’s roads. Feedback suggested the top three areas of improvement included:

Improving road maintenance
Reducing anti-social driving behaviours
Suitable punishment for dangerous driving

Draft Vision Zero Action Plan

Between 16 May and 27 June over 700 people shared their thoughts on the draft Vision Zero Action Plan.

The information below summarises key feedback and how it has informed actions within with final Vision Zero Action Plan.

Safe Streets

You said:

Roads need to be better maintained.
More traffic-calming measures are needed.
Improvements in active travel infrastructure are needed.
More enforcement is needed to tackle pavement parking, as it’s a barrier to vulnerable road users and those want to use active travel methods.

We’ve committed to:

Delivering ongoing and increased targeted maintenance of our streets, including cycle lanes and footways (action 1.1).
Delivering safer roadside infrastructure by ensuring that the design of our roads and streets encourages slower vehicle speeds to help protect those who are more vulnerable (action 1.4).
Investing in and improving the active travel network. As of August 2024, 117km of Bee Network standard active travel infrastructure has been completed, with an additional 58km of schemes currently in development (action 1.5).
Advocating for Local Highway Authorities to be given further powers to stop pavement parking (action 1.7).

Safe Road Users

You said:

More education is needed to improve road user behaviour.
More enforcement is needed on Greater Manchester’s roads to help tackle anti-social road user behaviour.

We’ve committed to:

Delivering behavioural change education campaigns. These include targeting anti-social road user behaviour (action 2.1) and providing targeted education campaigns for drivers (action 2.2) and motorcyclists (action 2.3). We are also committed to teaching young people essential travel skills by supporting Road Safety Champions, Youth Travel Ambassadors and Bikeability (action 2.4).
Working in partnership with the 10 GM Local Authorities to tackle poor driver behaviour (action 2.7). GMP will also undertake hotspot policing operations (action 2.8) which will be supported by third party reporting via Operation Snap (action 2.9).

Safe Speeds

You said:

Reduced speed limits around schools and residential areas.
More visible and consistent enforcement for those breaking speed limits.

We’ve committed to:

Reviewing and implementing safe speed limits, according to road function (action 3.1).
Upgrading safety cameras (action 3.3.), targeted speed enforcement action in high-risk locations (3.4) and investing in community speed watch schemes (action 3.5).

Safe Vehicles

You said:

More information on safety standards when purchasing vehicles, would be useful.
Ensure adequate safety standards for vehicles.
More enforcement for those who don’t have a compliant vehicle.

We’ve committed to:

Helping vehicle owners and operators choose the safest vehicle by including key information on emerging technologies and safety features in communications with the public (action 4.1).
Procuring safer vehicles for GM organisations (action 4.2).
Removing dangerous vehicles from GM roads. GMP will deliver enforcement operations that will run all year round (action 4.3).

Post-Crash Response

You said:

Post-collision investigations are important to help understand factors that contributed to the collision.
Improvements are needed in emotional support for all those involved in a road traffic collision.

We have committed to:

Undertaking thorough investigations into the causes of each fatal and life changing injury collision. These investigations will go beyond reviewing the data, to help us understand how we can prevent similar events from occurring (action 5.3).
Improving our awareness raising of available support networks to families impacted by road traffic collisions (5.5). The NHS Trusts are also committed to improving both patient and carer support (action 5.6). GMP family liaison officers will work to support families affected by road traffic collisions (action 5.4).

Find out more about Vision Zero.

Following a period of engagement activity we have completed a review of our disability concessionary pass application forms.

The new forms are now live online.

Paper forms will soon be available to collect from Information & Ticket Offices at interchanges.

A brief summary of changes to the forms:

Introduced a standard format across the forms.
Removed Blesma application form and incorporated it into a walking difficulties application form.
Removed individual questionnaires from application process, all questions are now contained in the application form.
Signposted a specific section for neurological development conditions (including Autism and ADHD). These conditions will be assessed under the refused driving license assessment.

In addition, the below changes have been made to the eligibility criteria:

We now accept a letter of confirmation from an eye specialist where applying under the blind or partially sighted assessment.
We now accept a letter of confirmation from a hearing specialist where applying under the profoundly or severely deaf assessment.
We now accept Personal Independence Payment (PIP) where 8 points or more are scored for ‘communicating verbally’ when applying under the without speech or profoundly deaf and without speech assessment.
We now accept the blue disabled badge as eligibility when applying under the walking difficulties assessment.
We have made the process for applying under severe enduring mental health more accessible.

Let us know your feedback

If you have any queries or issues, please let us know on the contact form.

You can also email travel.pass@beenetwork.com or call us on 0161 244 1000.

In Spring 2023, we asked people how they travel between Rochdale, Royton, Oldham and Ashton, what issues they faced, and what they would like to see improved to help them travel by bus, cycle, walking and wheeling more. The results have been used to help develop the proposals for the Rochdale Oldham Ashton Better Bus Route.

331 people in total responded to the survey.
87% of respondents were residents of Rochdale, Oldham or Tameside.
35% of respondents travelled to or between Rochdale, Royton, Oldham, or Ashton town centres daily, 37% at least once a week, and 21% between once a week and once a month.
65% of respondents had travelled the route in the past for shopping, 50% for recreation or leisure, and 44% commuting to a regular place of work.

Most people told us that they would like to see bus services in the area improved, and safer cycling routes to be created. The information below summarises some key points of feedback and how we're responding in our proposals.

A quicker and more reliable service

You said

73% of respondents that use the bus to travel between Rochdale, Royton, Oldham and Ashton want to see the reliability of services improved and 27% wanted to see the speed of bus services improved.
55% of respondents that don’t currently use the bus feel they would be able to if services were more reliable; and 27% if speed of services was improved.

We did

We are proposing a bus lane to south of Kingsway Queensway junction to help the bus get to the front of the traffic queue and are looking at options to improve bus reliability through Oldham Town Centre.
We will improve traffic signals at junctions to give late running buses priority.

Better information for customers

You said

Nearly a third (29%) of respondents travelling by bus on this route requested improved customer information on buses and at bus stops and 21% of those not travelling by bus felt this would enable them to use the bus.

We did

We are proposing to have real time information on key bus stops along the route, with QR codes to provide up to date information.
As part of the delivery of the Bee Network we will provide real time information with audio visual announcements on all our buses by 2026.

Better bus stops

You said

23% of bus users said that they would like to see more safety infrastructure, such as CCTV and lighting, at bus stops; and 19% of people that don’t use the bus said that these measures would help them use the bus.

We did

We are planning to improve bus stops along the Rochdale Oldham Ashton Better Bus Route to make them safer and more accessible.

Better walking, cycling and wheeling routes

You said

The most important factors that people who walk, cycle or wheel between Rochdale, Royton, Oldham and Ashton want to see improved are road crossing facilities (32%), and cycle lanes segregated from motorists (21%).

We did

We are proposing better cycling routes from Balderstone Park to Baron St in Rochdale Town Centre, and improved crossing facilities along the route.

Between November 2022 and February 2023, we held a series of “Safer Transport Network” workshops.

In these workshops we heard from a diverse range of women, men, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people about their experiences of safety when travelling on the transport network in Greater Manchester.

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