Improving Journeys: Heywood

Overview

Greater Manchester is building the Bee Network a new, joined-up transport network bringing together bus, tram, active travel, and rail services into one system, taking you where you need to go. 

Buses will form the biggest part of the Bee Network. In any given year, more than half of Greater Manchester’s population will travel by bus. Greater Manchester has received Government funding to make highways improvements that support quicker, more reliable, and more accessible bus journeys on key routes as well as safer, more accessible walking, cycling, and wheeling routes.  

Transport for Greater Manchester, Bury Council and Rochdale Council are currently developing proposals to improve journeys for people catching the bus, walking, wheeling or cycling between Bury, Heywood, and Rochdale town centres. By getting more people to use the bus, walk, and cycle we can also help to reduce congestion for other road users such as motorists. 

The Bury-Rochdale bus corridor is an 11km stretch running along the A58, with the town of Heywood around halfway along the route. The 471 bus service covers the entire length of the corridor, travelling Westbound it continues beyond Bury on to Bolton. The corridor connects with the rail network in Rochdale and with Metrolink in both Rochdale and Bury. Bury and Rochdale Interchanges are busy transport links and in Heywood a concentrated collection of stops provide an interchange between bus services.