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LEZ Community Support Fund to support environmental projects

Image of the Glasgow Low Emission Zone traffic sign

Environment-enhancing projects from across Glasgow will share £732,000, as penalties collected through the city’s Low Emission Zone are poured back into local communities.

Eighteen organisations will receive grants of between £20,000 and £50,000 to deliver a broad range of schemes following successful bids to the council’s LEZ Community Support Fund.

Projects include improvements to children’s play areas, free bike provision, establishing food growing spaces and enhancements to greenspaces.

Other initiatives involve peatland restoration, installing solar panels, air quality education projects, urban rewilding, and wildflower meadow planting.

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Cycling Scotland Board recruitment

Woman cycling along a segregated cycle route in an urban setting

Cycling Scotland are currently recruiting for two new trustees to join their Board.

The Board provides strategic leadership for Cycling Scotland, working with the staff team, and they’re are looking for new trustees with a variety of skills including transport planning, legal or HR. Recognising the value of diversity, they encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

The recruitment pack details the responsibilities of a trustee and how to apply. The deadline for applying is Wednesday 23rd April 2025.

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Consultations: March 2025

Connecting Greater Govan: Langlands Road visualisation

A list of open/forthcoming consultations – including in-person events and online surveys. 

A regional strategy, some area-wide consultations in the west of Glasgow, local routes in Argyll & Bute and West Dunbartonshire plus a few pump track proposals…

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Children’s Walking and Cycling Index published

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Sustrans has created the first ever Children’s Walking and Cycling Index, designed to help better understand the behaviours, barriers and attitudes affecting how children walk, wheel and cycle in the UK.

Children are often overlooked by decision-makers in transport except on journeys to and from school.

This leaves out the role that travel plays in their day-to-day lives, supporting development of their independence, socialisation skills, overall mental health and wellbeing, and reducing the family workload.

This new report gives a voice to children across the UK.

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Investment in landmark cycle routes delivering record share of journeys by bike in Scotland

A woman and young child cycle together on the South City Way cycle route, Victoria Road, Glasgow.

Record 15% of journeys on Glasgow’s South City Way and 8.3% of journeys on Edinburgh’s CCWEL made by bike

Investment in landmark cycle routes delivering record share of journeys by bike in Scotland

  • Record proportion of journeys being made by bike on Edinburgh’s new City Centre route and Glasgow’s South City Way
  • Over 1,700 more people cycling on Glasgow’s South City Way in two-day survey period in September 2024 vs 2023, a 46% annual increase
  • Edinburgh’s City Centre West to East Link sees additional 1,000 people cycling in two-day survey period in January 2025 vs 2024, an 83% annual increase
  • Evidence of wider impact of South City Way, with growth in cycling on nearby streets

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March’s GoBike ride – a look back at the Parks we visited

Broomfield Road, with Wallacewell Road on the left

Our ride on Sunday 02 March took us on this 21 mile route:

Starting from the SEC we made our way to the first park, Glasgow Green and then the seven of us moved on to at least another 10.

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Sunday 2 March 2025, the GoBike ride – Eastern Parks

Tree-lined road in Glasgow Green


This ride sees us heading along the riverside to Glasgow Green, then onwards to explore the East End of Glasgow, including its parks. We will see some of the better known parks such as Tollcross Park and Hogganfield Park, and also some of the smaller parks.

Swans by the banks of Hogganfield Loch

Along the way we will pass attractions as diverse as the Velodrome and Provan Hall. We will finish up at Speirs Wharf at around lunchtime.
22 miles, with the occasional climb, and short bits on main roads.

Meet 10am at the north end of Bell’s Bridge, Congress Road, Glasgow.

For more information, see the GoBike cycle rides page.

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Consultations: February 2025

Custom House Quay & Carlton Place plans – downstream view looking west across Glasgow

A list of open/forthcoming consultations – including in-person and online events. 

Some major consultations for Glasgow City, North Lanarkshire and the wider region (via Clyde Metro), so time for an update…

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