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Transport in Manchester
The transport infrastructure of Greater Manchester is built up of numerous transport modes and forms an integral part of the structure of Greater Manchester and North West England – the most populated region outside of South East England which had approximately 301 million annual passenger journeys using either buses, planes, trains or trams in 2014. Its position as a national city of commerce, education and cultural importance means the city has one of the largest and most thorough transport infrastructures which is heavily relied upon by its 2.8 million inhabitants in the Greater Manchester conurbation and further afield in the North West region. Public transport comes under the jurisdiction of Transport for Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester still has an extensive citywide rail network compared with other British cities with over 200 tram and train stations - much of which dates from the Industrial Revolution. Two mainline termini (Piccadilly and Victoria) and two through mainline railway stations in the central area (Deansgate and Oxford Road) form the Manchester station group.
Manchester Airport is the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow and Gatwick. The city also has an extensive network of canal systems which converge into Manchester. The Manchester Ship Canal, built in 1894, was the largest ship canal in the world on opening and is incomparable to any other canal in the United Kingdom, which are mostly built for narrowboats and barges.
It was the first city in the United Kingdom to re-introduce trams to the streets with the 1992 opening of Manchester Metrolink, which is currently the largest network in the UK, having surpassed the Tyne & Wear Metro. As of January 2022 it has 99 stops, with the line to the Trafford Centre having opened in March 2020.
Greater Manchester is in the midst of a public transport revolution, with a new, centralised entity - the Bee Network - bringing tram, bus and eventually rail into a unified transport network. The network is controlled by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, through Transport for Greater Manchester and has seen the area through bus re-regulation, allowing fares to be capped, routes protected and investments to be made into an all-electric fleet of buses. The network has become an iconic local symbol, especially its yellow liveries across tram and bus vehicles, the logo of a worker bee a nod to the city region's working past.
A variety of travelcards are available for passengers in Greater Manchester under the System One banner. System One travelcards provide a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly pass and have varying options, offering combined multi-mode travel passes for bus, tram and train.
Manchester Airport, formerly Manchester (Ringway) Airport, is the busiest airport outside London by a considerable margin with over double the passengers of its nearest non-London rival, Edinburgh Airport. With over 200 destinations, the Airport serves the most destinations of any airport in the United Kingdom and is viewed as the international flight hub for the whole of Northern England, North Wales and parts of the Midlands. In 2008 the airport handled 21.2 million passengers but was badly affected by the 2008 financial crisis. The Airport gradually recovered and had become the fastest growing major airport in the United Kingdom by 2014 with 20.7 million passengers.
North American scheduled destinations served directly include New York City (JFK and Newark), Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Barbados.
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Transport in Manchester
The transport infrastructure of Greater Manchester is built up of numerous transport modes and forms an integral part of the structure of Greater Manchester and North West England – the most populated region outside of South East England which had approximately 301 million annual passenger journeys using either buses, planes, trains or trams in 2014. Its position as a national city of commerce, education and cultural importance means the city has one of the largest and most thorough transport infrastructures which is heavily relied upon by its 2.8 million inhabitants in the Greater Manchester conurbation and further afield in the North West region. Public transport comes under the jurisdiction of Transport for Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester still has an extensive citywide rail network compared with other British cities with over 200 tram and train stations - much of which dates from the Industrial Revolution. Two mainline termini (Piccadilly and Victoria) and two through mainline railway stations in the central area (Deansgate and Oxford Road) form the Manchester station group.
Manchester Airport is the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow and Gatwick. The city also has an extensive network of canal systems which converge into Manchester. The Manchester Ship Canal, built in 1894, was the largest ship canal in the world on opening and is incomparable to any other canal in the United Kingdom, which are mostly built for narrowboats and barges.
It was the first city in the United Kingdom to re-introduce trams to the streets with the 1992 opening of Manchester Metrolink, which is currently the largest network in the UK, having surpassed the Tyne & Wear Metro. As of January 2022 it has 99 stops, with the line to the Trafford Centre having opened in March 2020.
Greater Manchester is in the midst of a public transport revolution, with a new, centralised entity - the Bee Network - bringing tram, bus and eventually rail into a unified transport network. The network is controlled by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, through Transport for Greater Manchester and has seen the area through bus re-regulation, allowing fares to be capped, routes protected and investments to be made into an all-electric fleet of buses. The network has become an iconic local symbol, especially its yellow liveries across tram and bus vehicles, the logo of a worker bee a nod to the city region's working past.
A variety of travelcards are available for passengers in Greater Manchester under the System One banner. System One travelcards provide a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly pass and have varying options, offering combined multi-mode travel passes for bus, tram and train.
Manchester Airport, formerly Manchester (Ringway) Airport, is the busiest airport outside London by a considerable margin with over double the passengers of its nearest non-London rival, Edinburgh Airport. With over 200 destinations, the Airport serves the most destinations of any airport in the United Kingdom and is viewed as the international flight hub for the whole of Northern England, North Wales and parts of the Midlands. In 2008 the airport handled 21.2 million passengers but was badly affected by the 2008 financial crisis. The Airport gradually recovered and had become the fastest growing major airport in the United Kingdom by 2014 with 20.7 million passengers.
North American scheduled destinations served directly include New York City (JFK and Newark), Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Barbados.