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Devolution to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and transition to a directly elected mayor". gov.uk. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014 . Retrieved 4 November 2014. a b Kirby, Dean (1 April 2011). "All Change: Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive becomes Transport for Greater Manchester – With a New Logo of Course". Manchester Evening News. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011 . Retrieved 15 November 2021. Ottewell, David (25 June 2008). "Now YOU can vote on congestion charge". Manchester Evening News. pp.1–2. a b Hall, Peter (1998). "The first industrial city: Manchester 1760–1830". Cities in Civilization. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84219-6. The Church of England Diocese of Manchester". manchester.anglican.org. Archived from the original on 27 December 2007 . Retrieved 17 January 2008.

Greater Manchester lies at the heart of the North West transport network. Much of the infrastructure converges at Manchester city centre with the Manchester Inner Ring Road, an amalgamation of several major roads, circulating the city centre. The county is the only place in the UK to have a fully orbital motorway, [204] the M60, which passes through all of the boroughs except Bolton and Wigan. Greater Manchester has a higher percentage of the motorway network than any other county in the country, [205] and according to the Guinness Book of World Records, it has the most traffic lanes side by side (17), spread across several parallel carriageways ( M61 at Linnyshaw in Walkden, close to the M60 interchange). [206] [207] Greater Manchester's 85mi (137km) of motorway network saw 5.8billion vehicle kilometres in 2002– about 6% of the UK's total, or 89,000vehicles a day. [204] The A580 "East Lancs" road is a primary A road that connects Manchester and Salford with Liverpool. It was the UK's first purpose-built intercity highway and was officially opened by George V on 18 July 1934. [208] Throughout 2008, there were proposals for congestion charging in Greater Manchester. [209] [210] Unlike the London scheme, two cordons would have been used, one covering the main urban core of the Greater Manchester Urban Area and another covering Manchester city centre. [211] Parishes of the Diocese". Salforddiocese.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2 May 2007 . Retrieved 7 May 2007. The Local Government Act 1972 reformed local government in England, with the act enacted on the 1 April 1974. The area was given the name Greater Manchester and a metropolitan county designation. This was a two-tier counties and districts system. [40] The act formally , [45] although Greater Manchester County Council (GMCC) had been running since elections in 1973. [46] The leading article in The Times on the day the Local Government Act came into effect noted that the "new arrangement is a compromise which seeks to reconcile familiar geography which commands a certain amount of affection and loyalty, with the scale of operations on which modern planning methods can work effectively". [47] Frangopulo noted that the creation of Greater Manchester "was the official unifying of a region which, through history and tradition, had forged for itself over many centuries bonds... between the communities of town and village, each of which was the embodiment of the character of this region". [48] The name Greater Manchester was adopted, having been favoured over Selnec following public consultation, [49] despite opposition claiming that "Greater Manchester [...] is a myth. An abomination. A travesty.". [50]See also: Transport in Manchester, Manchester Airport, Manchester Metrolink, and List of railway stations in Greater Manchester

Watson, Alex (14 April 2020). "The mysterious tale of the parrots of South Manchester". propermanchester.com . Retrieved 1 August 2023. The three modes of public surface transport in the area are heavily used. 19.7million rail journeys were made in the then GMPTE-supported area in the 2005/2006 financial year– an increase of 9.4% over 2004/2005; there were 19.9million journeys on Metrolink; and the bus system carried 219.4million passengers. [216] a b "Greater Manchester councils plan "unique" town centre investment strategy". localgovernmentexecutive.co.uk. 19 March 2013. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013 . Retrieved 22 June 2013. a b c Gratton, Chris; Simon Shibli; Richard Coleman (2005). "Sport and Economic Regeneration in Cities". Urban Studies. Urban Studies Journal Limited. 42 (5–6): 985–999. doi: 10.1080/00420980500107045. S2CID 154814355.A Framework for City Regions Working Paper" (PDF). Newcastle University UK. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2016 . Retrieved 16 April 2015. Shaw, Megan (6 December 2020). "The fight to keep these historic villages in Yorkshire nearing a sad end". YorkshireLive. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021 . Retrieved 20 July 2021. The number's up for Britain's roads". The Daily Telegraph. October 2002. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007 . Retrieved 2 March 2014. The west side of Manchester is notoriously busy and holds the record for the widest section of motorway– an impressive 17lanes where the M61 and M60 meet. a b Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (August 2009). "Prosperity for all: The Greater Manchester Strategy" (PDF). agma.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012 . Retrieved 22 June 2013.