Author: Tricia Fort

Recent events in East Dunbartonshire with the Bears Way, South Ayrshire with Holmston Road and Edinburgh with Roseburn Terrace have made it very clear that we need local councillors who support active travel and who are prepared to make space for walking and cycling in our towns and cities.

The WalkCycleVote campaign, of which GoBike is a member, is organising a training day for people who wish to get involved in pressing our prospective politicians in next year’s council elections.  It’s in Edinburgh on Saturday 26 November and it’s FREE.  Full details are on the link below.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-cycle-vote-and-space-for-cycling-campaigners-training-day-tickets-28654913618

After the success of our hustings in March this year for the Holyrood Elections, GoBike will be getting actively involved in campaigning for the local elections – and we will need your help in putting the active travel message across to the candidates.  Details to follow.

Abellio ScotRail’s Bike & Go Scheme, https://www.scotrail.co.uk/plan-your-journey/travel-connections/cycling/bike-go  gets a poor mid-term report from Alastair Dalton in the Scotsman today: http://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/inside-transport-scotrail-falter-in-going-dutch-on-cycling-says-alastair-dalton-1-4271174

Please don’t forget – the Camglen bike festival tomorrow, at their new premises, just off Cathcart Road in Rutherglen, 11 – 4pm.

The venue is just off Cathcart Road, opposite the Old Quarry Inn and Cake in a Box and just down from Aldi

For more info check out their Facebook event or the Bike Town website

There’s a petition going on 38 degrees to get this bridge reinstated.  It’s a vital link to Glasgow Green and Glasgow City Centre for people living just south of the river in Oatlands.  Please sign it: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/free-the-polmadie-bridge-1

Our friends at Camglen Bike Town are holding a Bike Town Cycle Festival and Open Day and invite you to come and join them at their celebration of cycling and opening day for their brand new Bike Town premises.

We have now booked the Admiral Bar on Waterloo Street, Glasgow for the GoBike AGM on Wednesday 23 November, at 7:30pm

This will be followed by our Public Meeting and Councillor Martin McElroy, Glasgow’s Cycling Commissioner (no longer a Czar!) will outline the City Council’s views on the following aspects of the Strategic Plan for Cycling:

1. A Safer Cycling City: Key Outcome 4 on page 17
2. Budget: Continue to spend above the Scottish national average per head of population, to develop commuter, leisure (and sports) cycling.  (Our brackets): Target 1 on page 18
3. Increase number of children cycling to primary school from 3.5% to 7% by 2025: Target 3 on page 18
4. 20mph zones: page 20
5. Glasgow Cycle Network/Infrastructure: page 23-26

You can find the Strategic Plan for Cycling from this link: http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/councillorsandcommittees/viewDoc.asp?c=P62AFQDNT1Z3DX81ZL

We hope to see you all on the 23rd!