Sunday 07 May, just the day for a GoBike ride! Over the new Sighthill Bridge and beyond!

Whether you spend this Saturday watching an expensive event taking place in London, walking through Glasgow on the All Under One Banner Independence March or doing whatever takes your fancy, Sunday will be a good time to explore somewhere new on your bike.

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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 133, 20 April 2023

Ravenscraig new dual carriageway visualisation

Look North.

After Ayrshire dominating the last issue, this time North Lanarkshire joins North Ayrshire and a new consultation on North Woodside Road, Glasgow. Sadly, NLC favour new roads and shared paths over on-street segregation (see above). However, there’s a chance to ask for better in their new strategy.

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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 132, 30 March 2023

Barassie-Prestwick Ayrshire Link aerial map

Behind the scenes.

Glasgow takes a back seat for once as Ayrshire dominates this Digest with a few major strategies and active travel routes. Elsewhere, a big development near Cumbernauld is back for round two.

Renfrewshire sees the latest knee-jerk reaction against cycling infrastructure that could be a crucial link between public transport and an NCN route.

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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 131, 16 March 2023

View of the Devon St site under the M74

Get your skates on.

Last call for a few Liveable Neighbourhood consultations. There’s a bit longer for Castle Semple at Lochwinnoch. Also, a skatepark proposal re-emerges under the M74.

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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 130, 2 March 2023

Castle Semple assets and connections

All or nothing?

After the recent wave of consultations things have calmed down a bit. There’s a new consultation for Castle Semple Country Park in Renfrewshire. Also, something on the horizon for a roundabout junction in Pollok.

It’s the last call for Glasgow’s District consultations and one in Lanarkshire. The Southside Liveable Neighbourhoods consultations have finished but there’s a few more weeks for the north-west and north-east LNs.

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Sunday 05 March, Eastern Explorer Cycle Ride

Hogganfield Loch

For our March ride, we will take a trip around the East End of Glasgow, passing Port Dundas, Hogganfield Park, Provan Hall, Blairtummock House and the Necropolis.

Provan Hall, courtesy of Geograph

Along the way we will see some upgraded cycle routes, and we should arrive back in the city centre around lunchtime.
20 miles, mostly on quieter roads and park paths.

Meet at the north end of Bell’s Bridge, at the SEC at 10:00 hrs.

Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 129, 16 February 2023

Split view of two Liveable Neighbourhoods visuals for Battle of Langside monument and Carntyne Square

In the Neighbourhood…

Another four consultations at once – this time, Liveable Neighbourhoods in Glasgow. Two on the Southside, one for the north-west and one for north-east. Also, new visualisations came out for some of the earlier LN projects (see featured images on this post). A few of South Lanarkshire’s consultations are ongoing and there’s a new one from North Lanarkshire.

Consultation events – Palacerigg, Cumbernauld has a drop-in event TODAY (1–8pm) and Mansewood to Shawlands LN has an event tomorrow (17 Feb, 4–7pm). See below for details…

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GoBike members have been heartbroken and dismayed by the recent untimely passing of someone cycling on Glasgow’s roads. We would like to send our condolences and love to the family and friends of Emma Newman. We cannot imagine how deeply her loss will be felt – we know the grief of those who knew her will reverberate with everyone who cycles in our city and would have shared the same streets. It could have been any of us.

In light of this incident, GoBike have sent a communication to the council in a spirit of mutual understanding and in the hope that we can safeguard vision zero as a shared priority in our city, for Emma and for all those like her. We will update you when we receive a response.