Strathclyde Cycle Campaign
Edinburgh’s Festival of Cycling starts on 11 June, with lots of activities for everyone, see http://www.edfoc.org.uk/
and for all the women among us, on Saturday evening, 13 June, there’s the Women’s Cycle Forum, only £5, so get yourself booked.
And for those who can’t make it to the east, the Glasgow Cycle Festival kicks off in August – watch out for details.
GoBike yesterday issued this press release: GoBike 20mph Press Release Update 20May15 final
We had received Glasgow City Council’s confirmation of the result of our meeting at the Petitions Committee and wanted to let everyone know, Decision letter final
If you live in Glasgow and are writing to your councillors please let them know that you support this (we hope you do!)
Far be it from GoBike to be advertising, but Jason, a keen cyclist, who runs the State Bar on Glasgow’s Holland Street has managed to get 2 beers produced with a cycling theme and is launching them tomorrow evening, Thursday 21 May. In the words of their twitter feed “This Thursday we will be launching our cycling ale from @AlechemyBrewCo king of the hill 2.1(aussie hops) &Le vainqueur 2.1% (USA hops)”
Could be worth a try.
GoBike has today responded to current GCC consultation (it closes tomorrow, 15 May) for 20mph zones in 3 parts of Anniesland and Knightswood. Some of these areas already have traffic calming and that will stay, but new traffic calming in the shape of road “cushions” is proposed. In the light of the success of our 20mph petition on Tuesday at GCC’s Petitions Committee, we have suggested that this is not necessary and that signage should suffice. We also suggest that the areas, particularly near Jordanhill School be extended. You can see our response here
If you support this, please let Glasgow City Council know!
Read today’s Herald for news of the Petitions Committee at Glasgow City Council yesterday:
This morning Bob Downie and Tricia Fort attended Glasgow City Council’s Petitions Committee in support of the recent 20mph petition that Bob championed. We were met with unanimous cross-party support, with councillors from Labour, the SNP and the Green Party, as well as the council officer, Andrew Waddell, thanking us for bringing this forward.
The petition is now to be passed to the Policy and Resources Committee and council staff have been asked to prepare details and a revised timescale for 20mph implementation, ie a timescale significantly shorter than the 40 years based on their current rate of progress.
The presentation may be seen here on Bob’s blog.
Glasgow City Council have now informed objectors to their proposals to “upgrade” the Colleges Cycle Route that they are not currently going to do so. The full text of their response is shown here: https://www.gobike.org/campaignsconsultations/consultations
Despite the fact that GoBike was represented on a ride out to the route and made our views known, council officers failed to issue plans that showed what they said were their full intentions, failed to make the cycle lanes continuous and declined to discuss the proposals at any of the meetings that GoBike is represented on with the Council.
We hope that they will draw up robust plans to ensure future funding and public approval.
Please note that other cycle delivery services are available!
Business Scotland on Radio Scotland last weekend: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05std8w – sorry about the delay in posting – had a programme devoted to the business of cycling. Not only was GoBike member, Charlie, from Outspoken, interviewed, but so was Neil Bilsland of Billy Bilsland
Unfortunately there was no mention of 20mph speed limits or the great advances (not) that our local authorities are making, but it’s worth a listen.
Glasgow City Council are currently consulting on a Traffic Order to redetermine the footway on Barrhead Road for cyclists to use as well as pedestrians. Work is already underway to resurface the footway, making it a better surface, better than the adjacent road! While GoBike has serious concerns about shared use, it is clear that this is the best we will currently get in this location. However, we have major concerns with 2 locations where dropped kerbs are not being installed and thus we have submitted a partial objection, see: https://www.gobike.org/campaignsconsultations/consultations
Consultation closes on Monday 20 April, so you have a few days left to voice your concern, if you wish.
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