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Dear readers — STOP. Are you commuting? Lunch-breaking? Commuting in the other direction? Home?
Wherever you are you should be listening to The Run of The Mill, our weekly podcast for Mancunians in the know. In today’s episode, Jack and Ophira talk about the holy trinity of hot Manchester topics: corn, cigs and bikes. Think Market Street stinks too much of sweetcorn? Ever been fined for dropping a cig butt even though you don’t actually smoke? Ever struggled to get your Beryl Bike out the dock? This podcast understands you. You should listen to it here, or at the Spotify player below:
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Does Manchester long for the Lime Bike?
On Tuesday, speaking to a hall at Aviva Studios so packed it was standing only, transport secretary Heidi Alexander was singing the praises of Greater Manchester.
On this occasion, Alexander was addressing a thousand of the country’s most lithe and limber visitors, who had gathered at a conference to discuss how to get more people into ‘active travel’ (which is to say, out of cars).
She spoke of how she wanted to create ‘active travel networks’ that were accessible to everyone — pedestrians, wheelchair users, cyclists. She said she knew such a utopia was possible, because “look outside here, and you’ll see a city setting the benchmark.”
But over the course of the two-day conference, an unpublished report was being circulated, and the report said something different. Rumours of an incoming news story about the report — the story you’re currently reading — began rippling through the queues for tofu rice bowls and flat whites. It reached the point that Bev Craig, fresh off the back of a trip to New York, had to be brought in on a response.
Hello! Jack here, the author of today’s piece on whether Manchester needs to ditch Beryl and get on board with Lime bikes. This is a members-only article, but you can actually become a member for cheaper than usual right now.
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