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This page contains documents that are of interest to anyone who cares about transport in Longsight.  To read them you'll need Adobe Reader software on your computer.  You can download this for free from the Internet.

If you have written a letter about a transport issue in Longsight, please send it in and we will do our best to put it on this site.

Our reports

Better Buses and Safer Streets for Longsight
The report of our in-depth community consultation in Longsight. 2003 

download (1.31mb)

2006 Update
An update to Better Buses, that describes what the Longsight Transport Project has been doing since 2003.

download (136kb)

The 53 Bus and Regulation Issues
Nov 2006 response to letter from Gerald Kaufman.
 
download (742kb pdf)
Oct 2006 letter to Gerald Kaufman MP with results of bus survey
 
download (742kb pdf)
Oct 2006 results of our ongoing survey of the 53 and 54 bus routes
 
download (742kb pdf)
Feb 2006 press release from GMPTE announcing the return of the 53 to Moss Side! (as the 54...)
 
read (external link)
    letter to Manchester Evening News in response to article about bus regulation, giving the recent withdrawal of the 53 from Moss Side as an example of deregulation gone wrong
 
read
  letter to GMPTE in protest at the withdrawal of the 53 bus service from the Moss Side area
 
download (27kb)
  petition asking for the return of the 53 bus to Moss Side download (8kb)
Jan 2006 request for information about 53 bus route download (27kb)

Complaints and Suggestions about Local Issues 
Jan 2006 suggestion of putting street sign at Hamilton Road end of Mentor Street download (27kb)
Jan 2006 complaint about pedestrian crossing on Dickenson Road read
     
    Want to know how to make your own complaints and suggestions? click here!

Responses to Consultations 
May 2006 House of Commons Transport Committee Inquiry "Bus Services Across the UK" download (70kb)
   

report of the Transport Committee: Bus Services Across the UK (includes our contribution on page ev212-4, and lists us as Witness 53!)

download (3.15mb external site)
Nov 2005 Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan 2 download (193kb)
   

Reply to our letter (from the Greater Manchester Joint Transport Team)

download (27kb)

Photo: launch of our report

Photo: consultation with the 'woodcraft folk'

Photo: comments about buses

Photo: Community Triathlon

Photo: voting on transport issues at the libray

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This page was last updated 23rd May 2006.
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