What do we think?
From the bid
- Deliver 56km of largely segregated cycle route across Greater Manchester
- Generate 26,800 new cycle trips per day on these routes
- Improve the health and wellbeing to the value of £7.3m per year
- Provide business financial savings by reducing absenteeism of 1,000 days per year
- Remove 1.7m traffic kms per year from Greater Manchester’s roads reducing congestion and accidents.
Some details here http://sharpedgetrip.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/velocity-2025-cycling-plan-for-2025-and.html
Anyone had a look at it in detail?