GoBike Strathclyde

Support amongst people at the 1st consultation event in Cowcaddens (many would be locals). The 2nd event is Wed 4 March, 10am-5pm in Woodside Halls. Yes, seemed like bias towards Repair/Replace - both in Transport Scotland‘s comfort zone.

Heat map of potential congestion if the M8 Woodside viaducts were removed (with no other action) by Transport Scotland

This was the heat map shown at consultation event. The guy said it was for removal only. I asked about other changes to transport network and plans for the land but he wouldn’t be drawn on any of that. He said Replace the M8 “had been in” and the Remove option had been quite popular

Consultations Extra: Woodside & Linthouse A few major consultations that aren’t strictly about cycling but are related.

Consultations Extra post about M8 Woodside viaducts and Linthouse Glasgow Uni campus : www.gobike.org/consultation...
Clyde Waterfront Innovation Campus event is TODAY at Linthouse HA:
3-7pm, Linthouse Housing Association, 1 Cressy St, Glasgow G51 4RB

Consultation opens on the next phase of the East City Way - Glasgow City Council People are being invited to help shape the future look of London Road, as ambitious plans for the next phase of the East City Way are unveiled.

East City Way - phase 5 (Braidfauld, London Rd). Consultation closes today! Have your say: www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/1450...

Consultations: February 2026 Major routes in Glasgow, a city centre trial and climate plan. East Ayrshire and Inverclyde have draft Active Travel Strategies. North Lanarkshire consults on a few strategic routes. An update that…

Update on major routes in Govan and East End. Also, city centre pilot and Glasgow Climate Strategy. Active Travel Strategies in East Ayrshire and Inverclyde. North Lanarkshire looks at a few strategic routes.
www.gobike.org/consultation...

Start of Spokes budget article... ScotGov draft budget 26/27: Active Travel obfuscation The ‘Level 4 spreadsheet’ accompanying the Scottish Government’s draft budget shows Support for Active and Sustainable Travel rising by an incredible 66.3%, from £135.8m in 25/26 to £226m in 26/27. This has been widely commended. However, when the smoke and mirrors are removed, it seems likely that total funding for active travel will actually fall slightly in cash terms, and, as a % of total transport, from 4.3% in 25/26 to less than 4% in 26/27. How can such an apparantly good news story be so misleading? We discuss this in detail later below, but, in summary… the big combined rise in Active and Sustainable looks likely to be for Sustainable (specifically, bus infrastructure) whilst Active looks likely to fall the quoted £135.8m for Active and Sustainable is misleadingly low, which makes the 66% increase to £226m look misleadingly high.

#ScotBudget

#ActiveTravel 🚶👩‍🦼🚲 falls below 4% of total transport

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Where were we?
Inverclyde Council are looking at a new Active Travel Strategy. There’s been progress since their 2018 ATS (especially on coastal routes). But what are barriers to walking, wheeling or cycling for short trips and which routes should be prioritised?
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Glasgow City Network - Connecting Greater Govan the City Network will provide accessible and safe travel for everyone

☀️ Govan, it's your turn! The first City Network plans for the area are out.

🧑‍💻🌍 ONLINE
Plans and survey available now.
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📅📍 MONDAY 11 NOV
Drop-in event @ Elder Park Library

As always, positive and constructive comments encouraged.

Glasgow City Network - Inner North and South Glasgow City Council’s Active Travel Strategy 2022-2031 aims to achieve significant modal shift across the city to walking, wheeling and cycling. The strategy’s vision is that: "walking, wheeling...

✊Please please please complete the consultation and show your support.

Plans: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dbe9...

Consultation: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ATSInnerNo...

Glasgow bike campaigns present jumbo “Thank You” card to bike lane consultation staff Parents and children from Shawlands Bike Bus and campaigners from GoBike have presented a jumbo “Thank You” card to staff at a bike lane consultation in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall.

Last night we teamed up with Bike Bus Shawlands to present a card of positivity to the final City Network drop-in consultation for the Inner North and South areas.

This is a transformative network which will drastically improve active travel in Glasgow.

www.gobike.org/glasgow-bike...

Support Glasgow's City Network. A celebration of Glasgow's cycle lane plans with Shawlands Bike Bus and GoBike Strathclyde. A short group bike ride to pollokshaws burgh hall. Deliver a thank you card to the design team. Shawlands primary school 5.30pm thursday 19 september.

Glasgow is consulting on a real network of cycle lanes - we're teaming up with Shawlands Bike Bus to deliver a thank you card to their local consultation. All welcome!

local schoolchildren with council leadership opening the bridge formally

Good news for those walking, wheeling, and cycling between Govan and the West End, the new bridge is open! 🚶🚴🚴🚶🛴🧑‍🦽

Free festivals run TODAY to mark the occasion. Cycle along and join the celebration.

⬆️ Clydebuilt Festival (Sat/Sun)
⬇️ Footbridge Festival (Sat)

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Fantastic news

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Good progress and encouraging words from Angus Millar

Top of our wishlist for 2024 is for phase 1 of the city network (Govan, Southside and North Glasgow) to kick on in earnest, and for the paused Avenues projects to resume.

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Cities like Paris and London are becoming cycling cities, where bikes outnumber cars. It's the future - it moves more people, more cheaply, using less energy. It creates better health and better local economies. Cities like Glasgow have to keep up if we want to prosper.

There's a full map of Glasgow Council 's proposed cycle network here. The numbers indicate the order in which it will be built. What do you think? Will it all happen by 2030? Is your area well-covered?

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The incredible finding that 13% of trips on Victoria Road are now by bike proves that huge demand for cycling is supressed only by our dangerous roads. If @GlasgowCC and @AngusCMillar build the full network they've promised, Glasgow will become a city of mass cycling.

An image explaining that on the Road Safety Digital Roundtable website, you must first sign in, then find and click 'proposals', then you can comment, vote, and create proposals.

🚨The @GlasgowCC Road Safety Roundtable website is live.

✅We need you to vote, make comments, and create proposals!

🚴‍♀️What should be the top priority? 20mph roads? Cycle lanes? Pavement parking.

Let the council know what you think👇
glasgow.communitychoices.scot/legislation/...

"Police Scotland’s cancellation of key road safety tool means lives could be lost, according to national cycling charity. Scotland is the only part of Great Britain without a police dashcam reporting system"

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We're quoted here

Campaigners want extra funding for street redesigns — including cycle lanes — to prevent Glasgow “falling further behind” other European cities if soaring construction costs restrict the Avenues programme.

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Consultations local digest 16/11/2023. Long term strategies and local consultations, plus an update on the ups and downs of Glasgow's Avenues programme.

www.gobike.org/consultation...

Crossings and connections: GoBike member Alasdair thinks there's more to plans for Glasgow's North East Active Travel Routes (NEATR) than recent coverage suggests

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This unacceptable; if cost pressures mean the program cannot be delivered in full, then pedestrian and cycle safety measures must be taken promptly using cheaper methods. The status quo, with its attendant road violence and environmental crises, cannot continue.

www.reglasgow.com/review-under...

Image reads "SPT Active Travel Strategy"

Please respond if you can. SPT have a large role in transport investment across Strathclyde.

Strathclyde Partnership for Transport: "The public engagement for our Active Travel Strategy closes on Sunday 12 November.

spt.co.uk/active-future/ "

The "War on Cars" is a phrase that comes up every few years whenever some right-wing politician wants to get elected. But this phrase is nothing new, and has... Following the War on Cars (with Doug Gordon)

I had a fun time talking with Jason of Not Just Bikes for his podcast "The Urbanist Agenda." We talked about why my news alert for the phrase "war on cars" is popping right now. Available wherever you get your podcasts, as they say.

Man wearing shorts, black t-shirt and backwards black baseball hat next to a cargo bike with a white dog wearing goggles in it.

Because the real star of our new episode about Mayor John Bauters of Emeryville, CA is his dog, Miss Reyna, here's another photo of her wearing her "doggles" on the mayor's cargo bike. thewaroncars.org/2023/11/07/1...

An artist's rendering of the Kilmarnock loop cycle lane

Consultation extra: Round-up (08-11-23)

Some consultations which slipped through the net. 👀 Worth a look at scale of ambition for bike lane/path network around Kilmarnock – will need a lot of support to complete the Loop… ♾
www.gobike.org/consultation...

Sustrans Scotland have grants of up to £2000 for groups that encourage teenage girls to cycle

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An aerial photo of Glasgow city centre

Glasgow City Council's City Centre Strategy is open for consultation. Worth responding to support the people-first zone and call for it to be larger / go further.
www.glasgowconsult.co.uk/KMS/dmart.as...

New cycle storage in Whiteinch

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