Today we rode to demand safer streets for women cycling in winter. Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.

A wonderful “Lights Up 2025” #glowride Disco On Wheels cycle in Manchester this evening. Many parks & quiet routes feel unsafe to women & girls in the dark nights. About 200 cyclists with music+lights. Empowering ✊🚦💡🚲 Thanks organisers & ride leaders. @walkridegm.org.uk @stationsouth.bsky.social

The #Oxford #CongestionCharge is already having a positive effect because its political leaders had the bravery to see it through. The evidence is that this works & make public transport more attractive. All councils should have powers to implement congestion charging @walkridegm.org.uk

*manifesting a world where this much money is spent advertising bikes and walking*

Seven years into #MadeToMove very little of this vision has been delivered. This will go down as a huge missed opportunity to make travel cheaper and improve health and air quality in #GreaterManchester. We call upon the city’s politicians to restore the vision #BeeNetwork @walkridegm.org.uk

Oh, oh my @cyclinguk.bsky.social @rideleicester.bsky.social @walkridegm.org.uk

Last year I realised something that has changed my perspective on advocacy At @walkridegm.org.uk we noticed social media wasn’t having a meaningful impact on active travel delivery, so we shifted our focus to more constructive spaces

Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?

📯Huge Opportunity for Public Space Improvement Do you want to see a joined-up #BeeNetwork in #GreaterManchester? Then have your say on this impressive proposal for Seymour Grove. It's ambitious on paper, but local Councillors need confidence that there's public backing to approve it.

Nice blog here from @walkridegm.org.uk on nitrogen dioxide levels in Greater Manchester. www.walkridegm.org.uk/2025/09/03/l...

Want to know the story behind the UK's biggest @kidicalmass.bsky.social? Layla Siebert shares her story on how she started Kidical Mass in our latest podcast 👇🏻

Want to know the story behind the UK's biggest @kidicalmass.bsky.social? Layla Siebert shares her story on how she started Kidical Mass in our latest podcast 👇🏻

Good evidence of the effect of building safe #ActiveTravel infrastructure - aside from the health and environmental benefits, it builds in transport resilience

Brilliant news. Having decent cycle lanes gives another option for how to travel. Hopefully some of those who cycled their journey will do it again as it was convenient, healthy and fun 🚲 🙌 #cycling #activetravel

Bus strike mania has hit Manchester This week Oxford Road saw the most cyclists in a single day EVER Nearly 4000 people used the route on Monday

If you scroll aaaall the way to the bottom they've managed to put in *one* positive comment. Please can we have a bit more balance and research next time, @manchestereveningnews.co.uk? It's a well-evidenced fact that schemes like this are good for businesses and residents.

Our friends at What If? in Edgeley have an exciting double-event this Thursday, 25 September! Stockport's very own e-bike hub library is having a launch event, where you can try out an e-bike, and book a month-long loan.

A good news story for a dreary Friday! What a wonderful bunch of humans.

Get your headphones on and go for walk with @walkridegm.org.uk's excellent podcast Moving Up North, to learn more about what effective #ActiveTravel campaigning looks like🚲🚶🏾‍♀️🧑‍🦽 🛴 www.walkridegm.org.uk/2024/11/01/m...

Walk Ride GM was horrified by the recent news of a hate crime against Klaudia Mitura on the Ashton Canal. There is no excuse for violence, including this example of male violence against women. Incidents like this are made more likely by a widespread press and media bias against cyclists. 🧵

Meanwhile in Greater Manchester... (It does look like Oxford is going to be the British test case for what happens when a city goes all in for #ActiveTravel) @walkridegm.org.uk @cycloxoxford.bsky.social

We somehow missed this consultation for the #HeywoodTriangle - this looks like a really easy win diverting through traffic away from a school and park. Please write to your councillors if you’re near there to support. @walkridegm.org.uk

Fed up with pavement parking? We're supporting @livingstreets.bsky.social to show where pavements are used as car parks to the detriment of all who walk/wheel. Go & take photos (make sure you cover over reg numbers) & upload them to the Living Streets map: lnkd.in/ekEmPn3q Contribute by 22 Nov

Thanks for joining us for our social at the gorgeous Low Four Studio! We shared the latest successes and updates, and gave away some brand new badges and stickers. Keep your eyes peeled for more chances to get your hands on them... 👀

CYCLE ROUTE SAVED! 🎉🎉🎉 Following our campaign, Manchester Met and Unite have backed down on plans to block bike access on Cavendish Road, saving a major cycle route between Hulme and the city centre. Thanks to councillors Lee Glover, Lee-Ann Igbon and Annette Wright for all your support ❤️

Thanks for joining us for our social at the gorgeous Low Four Studio! We shared the latest successes and updates, and gave away some brand new badges and stickers. Keep your eyes peeled for more chances to get your hands on them... 👀

"I'm a Walk 'N' Roll Star" 👟💪🏻😍 Some cool slogans and goodies from Walk Ride Greater Manchester #ActiveTravel @johnmunro.bsky.social

CYCLE ROUTE SAVED! 🎉🎉🎉 Following our campaign, Manchester Met and Unite have backed down on plans to block bike access on Cavendish Road, saving a major cycle route between Hulme and the city centre. Thanks to councillors Lee Glover, Lee-Ann Igbon and Annette Wright for all your support ❤️

At Walk Ride GM, we’re demanding safe active travel for women and girls in Greater Manchester. Research by Lime found that 100% of female survey respondents want improvements aimed at personal safety. Read more here: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2025/08/27/s...

HUGE win for Walk Ride GM! Manchester Met has agreed to revise the plans that would have blocked Cavendish Street to cyclists. A massive thanks to everyone who spoke up with us. Meet us at All Saints Park at 5pm next Thurs (4th Sep) to toast our success and take a celebratory photo. 🥂🚲

🚨 URGENT ASK to help us push micromobility forwards in Greater Manchester 🛴 Your local authority has until 21st October 2025 to apply for an e-scooter trial. We believe e-scooters are a crucial part of the shift away from cars, so PLEASE email your councillor and ask them to apply. 1/3

We did it! @manmetuni.bsky.social has dropped plans to block Cavendish Street to cyclists A huge thanks to everyone who spoke up with us Join us at All Saints Park on 4th September at 5pm as we celebrate our success together with a toast to the campaign

We did it! @manmetuni.bsky.social has dropped plans to block Cavendish Street to cyclists A huge thanks to everyone who spoke up with us Join us at All Saints Park on 4th September at 5pm as we celebrate our success together with a toast to the campaign

Let’s make this happen #KidicalMass #Insurance donate and share in your networks @walkridegm.org.uk @rideleicester.bsky.social @bricycle.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @camcycle.bsky.social @yorkcycle.bsky.social @kidicalmass.bsky.social www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/km-insuran...

🏅 Gold standard bike parking at Stretford Public Hall 🔒 Sheffield Stands 🌦 Covered from the rain 👀 Highly visible 🌞 Solar motion sensor lighting ✅️ Close to the building entrance, a bus stop and a cycleway ♿️ Can be reached without navigating level change (a dropped kerb nearby would be even better!)

“What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster?” #20sPlenty @walkridegm.org.uk

A friendly reminder to nobody in particular that cycle lanes are not compulsory. People can choose to ride in the road instead for all sorts of reasons, which might not be clear to other road users. "cyclists may exercise their judgement and are not obliged to use them." – Highway Code, Rule 61

Great to see the work done by our members changing the way the media cover illegal motorbike use

Media coverage is fuelling a backlash against e-bikes. But often, the stories aren't even about e-bikes at all. Last week, the BBC reported that an "e-bike" was involved in a serious incident. But it was actually a high-powered electric motorbike. Here's how it got changed...🧵

Thank goodness for that. You cannot have safe separated cycleways if they dump you back into the path of HGV at every bus stop.

This campaign was organised by our members on Discord Want to get involved? Join the WRGM Discord here: discord.com/invite/scjf9... Join the People Powered Streets National Discord here: discord.com/invite/ayXhs...

NEW 🚨 The Government has confirmed to local MP Jeff Smith that they will continue to support high quality cycling infrastructure with floating bus stops.

NEW 🚨 The Government has confirmed to local MP Jeff Smith that they will continue to support high quality cycling infrastructure with floating bus stops.

Great news for active travel in Wigan! The works on St Helens Road are finished and looking really good. @wigancouncil.bsky.social we look forward to seeing lots more where this came from 🙏

NEW 🚨 After multiple Snake Pass Trespass rides, our main demand has been met by @derbyshirecc.bsky.social Average speed cameras are coming to Snake Pass A huge victory for our campaign and a safer future for all road cyclists in the Peaks.

Whether you’re a long-term Walk Ride campaigner, supporter, or just interested in what we do, we’d love you to join for a social to meet each other face-to-face, share ideas & feedback, and hear about successes we’ve all worked to achieve so far in 2025! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-ride-...

What would safer streets mean to you? 🙋 Living Streets and The Bikeability Trust have outlined key policies that the Gov's upcoming Road Safety Strategy should adopt. Please write to your MP today, urging them to call on the Government to hear us. act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/174678/...

Good to see a segment on barriers to women cycling on North West Tonight, spoiled slightly by the TfGM rep talking about the very thing that’s a barrier - routing through poorly lit parks. This not good enough and @cyclinguk.bsky.social should be having words #MyRideOurRight @walkridegm.org.uk

Please sign if you can to help safeguard long distance walking and cycling leisure routes, which are important for both #ActiveTravel and domestic #Tourism

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