Nicola Kane joins Steer as a Director
Nicola Kane joins Steer after eight years at Transport for Greater Manchester, where she was Head of Strategic Planning, Insight, and Innovation. She led the development of Greater Manchester’s award-winning fourth local transport plan (Greater Manchester Transport Strategy for 2040); and a supporting Five-year Transport Delivery Plan, which formed the basis of the combined authority’s recent £1bn+ City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement.
Nicola also played a key role in developing new policy agendas, such as a Streets for All Strategy and new City Centre Transport Strategy; transport decarbonisation analysis; and new mobility programmes, including e-cargobike, EV car club and e-scooter trials.
Prior to joining TfGM, Nicola spent 15 years working in consultancy roles at Peter Brett Associates and JMP Consultants on area-wide transport strategies, masterplans, major planning applications and travel behaviour change projects. Nicola is a chartered town planner (MRTPI) and transport planning professional (TPP) and was awarded TPS Transport Planner of the Year in 2017.
