​These requirements have informed the community about what strategies, policies or actions to be considered in the use of the decision support tool Geodesignhub in Workshop 2 (to be held in Moss Side on 21 September 2024).  

These proposals can have different scopes, with focus on policy, planning or project scales of intervention, and can have different spatial scales, from the level of the street to part or the entire Moss Side neighbourhood and beyond.

 

The following list of requirements were identified by the community as key strategic dimensions for a new active travel strategy for Moss Side: 

On improving shared public spaces in Moss Side 

• Design a network of reimagined public spaces across Moss Side that: 

• promote civic engagement for positive change: 

• promote the use of the street as public space rather than just a circulation infrastructure; 

• claims back traffic lanes from traffic and create new, cleaner and safer public spaces in main streets; 

• promote behavioural change on garbage management, improve garbage collection operations. 

On walking, cycling and wheeling safely in Moss Side 

• Improve the active travel infrastructure across Moss Side by: 

• giving priority in the street to more exposed age groups (namely the children and the elderly); 

• creating more segregated cycle lanes; 

• redesigning walking pathways, with a focus on the main street/road crossings; 

• creating a network of secure public shelters for active travel modes (bikes and scooters) to complement private storage. 

On promoting a safer neighbourhood traffic in Moss Side 

• A new neighbourhood structure for traffic that: 

• Favours pedestrians (with support of better green infrastructure) and not cars, similar to the superblocks in Barcelona, 

• Tackles abuse of car parking on pavements. 

• Favours one-way streets. ​​