Category: GoBike

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!

After the very low key launch of the 20mph speed limit in Glasgow City Centre back in March this year, the City Council have finally got round to putting up banners proclaiming the limit.

Now all we need is compliance – and enforcement as necessary.

One of our members has asked us to publicise his correspondence with Glasgow City Council, Land & Environment Services.  This makes his views clear about the quality of design, or lack of supervision and oversight, of both design and construction of facilities to be used by people on bikes.  Here is his e-mail to us:

“To Members GoBike

From Pat Toms

Recently, GCC LES constructed a steep link path from Garrioch Drive G20 to join paths on the Kelvin Walkway (see attached photograph). After it was opened I informed LES it was hazardous. They replied it was constructed to the “best available profile”. Not long afterwards a commuting cyclist with child in a rear seat fell off the path. After the accident Andy Keba of Sustrans had the path inspected and stated it “is not suitable for all users at present” (Sustrans part-funded the path). LES had no alternative but to close the path. Letters and documents exchanged with LES are attached to this email.

This is an instance of inadequately designed cycle and pedestrian facilities in Glasgow. LES lacks the expertise to design quality facilities. An independent assessment of existing cycle and pedestrian facilities should be carried out and a strategy prepared to employ officers with appropriate expertise.

Pat Toms”

Here is his collection of correspondence, in chronological order, although his last attachment, numbered 7 is the one that summarises the current view: 0-5083a_works_and_site_information_for_tar-on-kelvin-walkway-and-garrioch 1-5749435-toms-civil_engineering_works_and_site_information_for_kelvin-walkway-botani-1           1-hazardous-pathway-hs-270516                                                                                              2-email-from-coun-m-razaq-about-cycleway-profile-130616                                                   3-hazardous-pathway-accident-200816

4-emails-from-and-to-sustrans-290816 

5-cycleway-foi-request-to-les-290816

6-5749435-toms-response

7-complaint-to-les-about-link-path-031016