Greater Manchester Network Reviews Feedback Survey

Overview

Greater Manchester is making the biggest changes to its public transport network in almost 40 years. Buses are gradually being brought under local control through franchising and will be planned and coordinated by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), on behalf of Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).

It’s a major step on our journey to a joined-up transport system – the Bee Network. Whether you travel by bus, tram, train, cycle, wheel or walk, we’re working to make journeys easier, safer and affordable, with services you can rely on.

Better buses are at the heart of the Bee Network as they carry the most people: around 75% of trips by public transport. We want even more people to choose bus travel – and offer them a great service. Network reviews are an important way to help us do this.

Network reviews are a coordinated way to plan our bus network so it can help improve people's lives. Every review will be evidence-based, using all the information available to us, including community feedback.

They will take place in all areas of Greater Manchester within three years, through to 2027.

The timeline will mirror the roll-out of locally controlled Bee Network bus services:

• Bolton: Ongoing
• Wigan and Leigh: Ongoing
• Bury: Starts August 2024
• Salford: Starts October 2024
• Rochdale: Starts December 2024
• Oldham: Starts February 2025

All local bus services in Greater Manchester will be part of the Bee Network by 5 January 2025 and Network Reviews in other areas will start from spring 2025.

A programme of thematic reviews – for example, opportunities for night-buses, orbital services, or priority routes – also gets underway from January 2025.

Why your views matter

We’re asking local Bee Network Committees, communities, businesses, and elected members to help us understand the transport needs of their area. We’ll then use people’s experiences and ideas to help us plan any changes.

So we can better support the journeys local communities need to make – for work, study and training, healthcare, to see friends and family, for shopping and leisure.

We won’t be able to act on everyone’s ideas and suggestions. But we’ll look at the evidence and try to make improvements that offer the greatest benefit to the widest range of people, using the funding available.

To understand the priorities for the Bee Network for different groups of people, we ask further questions in the survey to capture certain demographic information. These questions will also help us to make sure views are gathered from a representative sample of Greater Manchester. These questions are optional and you don't have to give us your personal information, if you don't want to.

If you are happy to be contacted for further discussion, we will also ask you to provide:

• Name
• Telephone number.
• Personal email address

These questions are also optional.

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