Category: GoBike

There’s a full-time post going at Free Wheel North, based at their new premises, the White House, in Maryhill:

Research and development officer whitehouse

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 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.

Many photos of the ride now available, courtesy of Russell, and Andy’s published the map so you can check where we went or do the ride another time.  Lots of interesting infrastructure out there!

And we caused a massive blip in ridership over the Anderston Bridge!

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?

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 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.

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

 

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.

Last Saturday, Keith Bruce writing in the Herald Arts supplement about the success of the Hydro and other venues at the SECC in Glasgow, bemoaned the fact that the city has done nothing “about the pedestrian assault course it currently is to get from the Argyle Street hostelries to the arena”.  This reminded me of the works now under way by Glasgow City Council, to which Go Bike has objected, to “provide cycle routes in the area”, including the redetermination of the footway on the east side of Finnieston Street, shown above, to be 2-way for both cyclists and pedestrians.  My letter on the topic is in today’s Herald.  If you are a Herald reader, or just concerned about facilities for cyclists and pedestrians, please be ready to write in when the motorist response, as it surely will, gets published!