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For two days streets in the heart of Manchester are being transformed into tranquil, people-centred spaces. CyanLines is proud to be putting this initiative in place with the support of our partners at Manchester City Council, as well as Plant CIC, The RHS, National Trust, TfgM, Nature Towns and Cities, MCR Active, Sow the City,…

CyanLines returned to Aviva Studios, home of Factory International, last night to celebrate its first anniversary and we made two major announcements: a significant charitable grant from the Bupa Foundation to the National Trust towards Phase Two of Castlefield Viaduct and plans for a new CyanLines route, CL5, which will significantly improve the experience of…

A 90 metre section of Deansgate (outside the Great Northern) is now temporary home to 12 sweet gum trees, hexagonal beehive shaped planters, featuring recycled velodrome track and two brightly coloured Bike Ports. Working in collaboration with Manchester City Council, City of Trees, City Co and Great Northern, CyanLines has brought the trees to Deansgate…

Earlier this summer, OBI – leading real estate consultancy and one of our founding partners – invited us to join their team on a sunny afternoon as they ditched their desks and enjoyed a walk taking in two of our CyanLines routes – CL3 St Peter’s Square to Whitworth Park and CL2 Mayfield, New Islington…

Launched on 10 September 2025 at Aviva Studios, home of Factory International, CyanLines is the nature-powered partnership project that aims to connect Greater Manchester’s blue and green spaces into a high quality network of walking, wheeling and cycling routes for residents, for visitors and for nature. The vision is to develop a network of hundreds…

We have appointed our partnership board to help deliver our vision to connect Greater Manchester’s parks, squares, rivers, canals and viaducts into a high-quality 100 mile plus network of walking, wheeling and cycling routes for residents, visitors and for nature to thrive. The board, which was formally appointed on Monday 22 June, is drawn from…

At 10am on Sunday 28 June we’ll be meeting at Christ the Vine Church, Park View, Manchester M9 5TF (just a few minutes walk from the Queens Road Metrolink stop) for our fourth guided CyanLines walk exploring the nature rich River Irk. Led by Jonathan Schofield we’ll meander down the River Irk’s north bank for…

Last weekend around 90 of us had a brilliant afternoon exploring CL2 – the Mayfield, New Islington and Ancoats loop. We were welcomed by our interim project director Steve Connor at the lovely community garden Station Sanctuary (a collaboration between Network Rail, the National Trust, Sow the City, and Manchester Action on Street Health (MASH)…