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 Please click the link on the left if you want to find out information about the consultation on the third Local Transport Plan (LTP3). By following this link, you will also find information about how you can respond to the consultation.
The information which is contained on this website relates solely to the first and the second Local Transport Plans.
The current Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan is a statutory document prepared under the Transport Act 2000. It is a 5-year strategy for the management, maintenance, development and monitoring of the County's transport system and it was put together by the ten City and Metropolitan Borough Councils and Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority (GMPTA) with the input of local stakeholders. It provides a basis for bids to Central Government for the resources needed to implement the strategy.
In the Greater Manchester conurbation there is such a complex pattern of interlinked movements that the development of the transport system has to be addressed on a whole area basis. Major improvements to Greater Manchester's public transport system, and the management of the highway network which links the ten Council areas could not be achieved properly without an overall plan. Government guidance therefore required that in such cases, a joint plan should be prepared. The eleven authorities consequently worked together to produce, implement and monitor a single Greater Manchester LTP2, continuing the spirit of co-operation on packages of improvements over the last 15 years.
In future, Local Transport Plans for Greater Manchester will be prepared by the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA), formerly GMPTA, created under the Transport Act 2008.
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