This consultation has now closed.
Our city centre is the fasting growing outside London, with a potential 100,000 more jobs and 50,000 more homes over the next 20 years. As our city grows, we want to think about our city centre streets differently:
- Looking at new and better ways to improve use of our public spaces.
- Address challenges which the city faces and deliver on our cleaner air targets.
- We want to ensure the city centre's economic recovery from Covid-19 and protect the businesses and people that have contributed to the city’s prosperity over the past decade.
- Our central aim is for 90% of all morning peak trips to the city centre to be made on foot, by cycle or using public transport by 2040.We can achieve this with the right tram, rail and bus connections in the right places, all working together and interlinked with high quality walking and cycling routes and facilities.
- We want to improve safety and encourage people to travel across and around the city by walking and cycling
This scheme, paid for by the government’s Active Travel Fund, aims to create an easier, safer and more attractive route for people to move between Piccadilly, Victoria and Deansgate stations, and to link into other walking and cycling routes.
It focuses on areas not already covered by other walking and cycling improvement schemes (along Deansgate, and in the Northern Quarter), including:
- Deansgate north - Victoria Bridge Street to Blackfriars Street;
- Deansgate south – Quay Street to Whitworth Street Junction,
- Whitworth Street to the Albion Street junction,
- Whitworth Street/Aytoun Street junction along Aytoun Street to Portland Street.
Have your say
We would like to know where you think improvements are needed, and what changes would make it more likely that you would walk or cycle this route.
The Active Travel Fund was established to support local transport authorities with improving cycling and walking facilities. The funding was originally announced by the Secretary of State on 23 May 2020 as part of the work to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, and aims to help people to get to their destination safely and quickly, while helping ensure there is enough space for them to observe social distancing guidelines, as well as to regenerate local economies after coronavirus.