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The transport infrastructure of Greater Manchester is built up of numerous transport modes and forms an integral part of the structure of Greater Manchester and North West England – the most populated region outside of South East England which had approximately 301 million annual passenger journeys using either buses, planes, trains or trams in 2014. Its position as a national city of commerce, education and cultural importance means the city has one of the largest and most thorough transport infrastructures which is heavily relied upon by its 2.7 million inhabitants in the Greater Manchester conurbation and further afield in the North West region. Public transport comes under the jurisdiction of Transport for Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester has a higher percentage of the motorway network than any other county.〔(The Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester has the most extensive motorway network in the United Kingdom. ) Oldham College -About Manchester URL accessed 28 June 2007〕 According to the ''Guinness Book of World Records'', it has the most traffic lanes side by side (17), spread across several parallel carriageways – the M61 at Linnyshaw Moss, Greater Manchester,〔(British Roads Database ) www.cbrd.co.uk URL accessed June 28, 2007〕 close to the M60 interchange. The M60 is one of only two motorways in the UK designated as an 'Orbital Motorway', (the other being the M25 around London), although the latter is not technically an entire orbital motorway as a short non-motorway stretch forms the Dartford Crossing. Greater Manchester still has an extensive city-wide rail network compared with other British cities with over 200 tram and train stations - much of which dates from the Industrial Revolution. Two mainline termini (Piccadilly and Victoria) and four through mainline railway stations in the central area (Deansgate, Oxford Road, Salford Central and Salford Crescent) form the Manchester station group. Ultimately, Manchester sits at a rail bottleneck, and it is hoped investment in the proposed Northern Hub from 2013 to 2019 by Network Rail will alleviate this. Manchester Airport is the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow and Gatwick. The city also has an extensive network of canal systems which converge into Manchester. The Manchester Ship Canal, built in 1894, was the largest ship canal in the world on opening and is incomparable to any other canal in the United Kingdom, which are mostly built for narrowboats and barges. It was the first city in the United Kingdom to re-introduce trams to the streets with the 1992 opening of Manchester Metrolink, which is currently undergoing significant extension and is now the largest network in the UK, having surpassed the Tyne and Wear Metro. As of November 2014 it has 93 stops, with another line to the Trafford Centre also envisaged. No underground system exists in Manchester, however this was proposed on numerous occasions before the Metrolink tram system was built. ==Ticketing== A variety of travelcards are available for passengers in Greater Manchester which are available under the System One banner. System One travelcards provide a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly pass and have varying options, offering combined multi-mode travel passes for bus, tram and train, As of 2015, there is an ongoing move towards smartcard ticketing, similar to the Oyster Card in London. The scheme, called get me there to much local criticism. Metrolink will be the first to transition to smart ticketing in 2015 with bus services following in 2016 and train services in 2017. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Transport in Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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