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Glasgow infrastructure update, Summer 2025

View up Pitt St past covered bike traffic light to fenced off bike lane going up hill

In case anyone else has been losing track of all the construction projects going on just now… Glasgow City Council put out an Avenues Programme Progress Report (PDF) in April 2025. However, a few that were due to be complete by May 2025 are still going on. So, it seemed like a good time to revive GoBike’s Infrastructure Update and have a look…

Snapshot of progress

The following is a snapshot of active travel works in and around the city centre during May/June 2025.

Most of these are part of the Avenues Project (or Avenues Plus). Not all projects include segregated cycle lanes, for example: Holland St and Sauchiehall Precinct (but the latter has removed raised platforms so there’s more space for cycling). The photos give an idea of how things are taking shape. 

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New Yoker to Renfrew bridge open

The new Yoker to Renfrew bridge opened to the public on Friday 9 May 2025.

The 184-metre, twin-leaf bridge has been built as part of the £1.3bn Glasgow City Region City Deal. It swings open to allow river traffic such as the PS Waverley to move freely along the River Clyde. The opening was also reported on the STV News and the BBC News

The bridge forms part of a newly opened 5km active travel route connecting Yoker and Clydebank to Pailsy town centre.

You can check when the bridge will be open to river traffic and therefore unavailable to pedestrians, cyclists and motor traffic on the dedicated webpage https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/renfrew-bridge

Photo source: Colin Mearns Clydebank Post https://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/25149275.renfrew-bridge-welcomes-public-across-glasgows-river-clyde/

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GoBike February Ride, the Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly!

Kinning footbridge works

Ten of us set off this Sunday morning and cycled the intricate route shown on the map above, and what a variety of infrastructure we saw.

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Sunday 01 December, time for the Circular GoBike ride!

Govan-Partick bridge from Govan
Stockingfield Junction Bridges and viewing platform, Forth and Clyde Canal. View East towards Ruchill (image: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Stockingfield Bridge (image: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

For our themed December ride, we will be taking a spiral tour of Glasgow, taking in a number of new, rebuilt, and other modern bridges. These include new cycle bridges, railway bridges, motorway bridges, and river and canal bridges.

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Sunday, 06 October, our first group ride over the new bridge at Govan!

Barshaw Park

October sees us revert to the shorter Sunday morning rides for the winter period, and sees also our first ride over the long-awaited Govan Bridge.

We will start by heading to the bridge at Yorkhill Quay and cross to Govan, though it’s unlikely to be as busy as it was the opening weekend!

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Glasgow bike campaigns present jumbo “Thank You” card to bike lane consultation staff

Children from Shawlands Bike bus presenting a card to Glasgow City Council
Shawlands Bike Bus and GoBike campaigners outside Pollokshaws Town Hall

Parents and children from Shawlands Bike Bus and campaigners from GoBike have presented a jumbo “Thank You” card to staff at a bike lane consultation in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall.

Glasgow City Council is consulting on an ambitious plan to build 57km of new bike lanes in the Inner North and South of the city. This is the first phase of the planned 270km City Network of safe active travel routes.

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Sunday 07 April: The Delayed Annual Infrastructure Ride

View of Sighthill bridge looking towards city centre


Our postponed annual ride focusing on cycling infrastructure in Glasgow will be this coming Sunday. We shall take a look at a number of new and recent developments on the north side of the city, starting by heading for the Riverside Museum where we will see the new bridge to Govan taking shape.

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Sunday 7 January 2024 – The Annual GoBike Infrastructure Ride

Swans by the banks of Hogganfield Loch


Happy New Year GoBikers!
For our annual ride focusing on cycle infrastructure in Glasgow, we shall take a look at a number of new and recent developments on the north side of the city.

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Some Thoughts on the Proposals for the North East Active Travel Routes (NEATR)

Wallacewell Rd Spaces for People lanes

By Alasdair Macdonald, GoBike member

I was disappointed by recent unbalanced coverage of Glasgow City Council proposals to develop North East Active Travel Routes (NEATR) in the Springburn area. Glasgow Times reported on a local group, supported by two Labour councillors, which was opposed to the plans. The reporting focused on cycle lanes on Wallacewell Road (ironically, championed by a previous Labour councillor). However, it ignored the wider plans for the area.

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