Ride out with GoBike on Sunday to Luggie Water; details here
The ride will head north east from Glasgow and return with a lunch stop at the Stables pub.
Free Wheel North – job vacancy
There’s a full-time post going at Free Wheel North, based at their new premises, the White House, in Maryhill:
Cycling in the Snow? Tricky
A GoBike member commented on the previous post about Design Guides and wondered about snow clearance policies for segregated cycle routes. Current evidence is not encouraging!
Connect 2 cycle route – usage yesterday, Sunday 18 January. The only tracks over the Anderston Bridge were made by a wheeled suitcase and, although Elderslie Street was gritted, the adjacent cycle route was not.
Too wintry to get out? Read these design guides instead!
Too wintry to get out far on your bike? Have a look at these Cycling Infrastructure Design Guides that are now here on the GoBike website.
It’s not a comprehensive list but the GoBike understanding, and expectation, is that authorities in Scotland will use the Transport Scotland, Cycling by Design guide.
If there are other guides out there that you think should be included, let us know.
Go Bike Glasgow Infrastructure Ride – map and photos
20mph – wanted now!
See the Herald today for Go Bike member, Bob Downie’s letter calling for 20mph. Why should Glasgow and the west of Scotland be later than Edinburgh on this?
Go Bikers on Glasgow Cycling Infrastructure …..
26, ie 25 on the photo plus the photographer (taking a group photo outside his favourite football club), members and supporters of Go Bike took to the streets of Glasgow on Sunday 04 January to journey along the cycling infrastructure installed over recent years. We took in, among others, Connect 2, the Colleges Route, Langlands Road, the Clyde Tunnel, London Road and the Clyde Gateway, wondering why routes appear and disappear and cross from one side of a road to another with no apparent warning. Gives us plenty to campaign for this year and for years to come!
Full details of the route can be found on this map, and some examples of the infrastructure we saw can be seen in these photos. The route was chosen since it includes several sections of recently built cycle routes, including routes to Commonwealth Games venues such as the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and Hampden Park which form part of the Glasgow 2014 Legacy.
Happy New Cycling Year!
Happy New Year, Go Bike members and supporters. Let’s make 2015 the year we really start making our views clear to our elected representatives, ie our councillors, MSPs and MPs. Please join in and write to your local representatives about cycling issues so that we can push the active travel agenda forward.
To support what Go Bike is doing, not just financially, but so we can demonstrate that we represent many cyclists in Glasgow and the Strathclyde area please, if you aren’t a member already, do join Go Bike – it’s by donation, so you choose the amount, here on our homepage.
Southern General Hospital, Meiklewood Road
On 17 December Go Bike was asked to comment on cycling and parking proposals for Meiklewood Road, Govan, Glasgow. The proposals are somewhat unclear, but kerbside parking is to be reduced and cycle lanes introduced on this road. We have asked for clarification; details may be seen on our Consultations page
GCC: Dowanhill & Byres Road, Parking and Cycling
Go Bike has sustained the greater part of its objection to the proposals for changes in parking and cycling in the Dowanhill and Byres Road area of Glasgow. Our initial objection, dated 18 September, gained a response from the City Council on 17 December. Our reply was sent in on 31 December. See our Consultations page for details.