Strathclyde Cycle Campaign
Publishing a little late but hey, it’s school holidays, less traffic on the streets and, apart from that, your Digest author has been otherwise engaged. We have all sorts for you in this issue, so do please read on.
Continue reading “Consultation Digest Issue 31, 04 April 2019 featuring Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire”
We will head along Sauchiehall Street before heading out through the north eastern part of the city into the countryside around Auchinloch. We will then join the Strathkelvin Railway Path at Lenzie and head for our lunch stop at Clachan of Campsie. The return will be via Strathblane and Milngavie, and onto the Kelvin Walkway.
35 miles, including a steep climb out of Strathblane.
Continue reading “GoBike Ride – Sunday 7th April – Strathkelvin Railway Path”
Both the University of Glasgow and Glasgow City Council are continuing to cast aside GoBike requests that University Avenue is made safer for people cycling in plans to redevelop the street.
Continue reading “University Avenue to remain unsafe for cycling”
Received just this afternoon, at 18:01 from a poor soul working late on a Friday, an email from Glasgow City Council:
‘MESSAGE SENT ON BEHALF OF CHRISTINE FRANCIS
HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES, NEIGHBOURHOODS & SUSTAINABILITY
NORTH CITY WAY PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EVENT – 03 April 2019
GoBike are one of 25 signatories on a joint letter to Nicola Sturgeon urging her to put her government’s support behind the Restricted Roads (20mph) Bill (Safer Streets Bill). It appears that the Scottish Government is not yet convinced on the benefits of the bill, preferring to leave the matters in the hands of local authorities, and we believe that this will be a mistake, leaving the benefits of 20mph open only to better funded local areas, and further widening the transport poverty gap.
An open letter to First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon
The Restricted Roads (20mph) Bill (Safer Streets Bill)
Dear First Minister,
Continue reading “Open Letter to the First Minister – 20 mph Bill”
We have previously let you know about concerns arising around side street design in new schemes within Glasgow, and as detailed in our previous blogs, have been in touch with Sustrans and Glasgow City Council about the safety issues we feel are important to urgently address.
If you haven’t caught our discussions so far you can catch up here:
Continue reading “** UPDATE 2 ** Side Streets”
In this issue we have two chances to input on public transport. The first is closing tomorrow, for the SPT, which is very active and public transport oriented, and the second is a Get Glasgow Moving petition. A strong voice on the Get Glasgow Moving input could influence official thinking on both the SPT and transformational frameworks such as that for the Glasgow Broomielaw featured below. Plus a late entry – a survey on a possible bike hire scheme in Motherwell! However, 2 further late entries to this Digest throw a cloud on the long-promised Sauchiehall Street avenue concept.
Continue reading “Consultation Digest Issue 30, 19 March 2019: Get your views in now to the SPT regional survey and the Get Glasgow Moving petition, and is transformation possible?”
Here’s the text of a letter we were sent yesterday, not directly but by one of our members:
Important Information from Scottish Water
Continue reading “Kelvin Walkway, Glasgow, Tree Felling means diversion and partial closure today and the rest of the week.”
A variety of news again, glimmers of hope with reducing motor traffic in Glasgow city centre, the regeneration of the Broomielaw, and the next phase of the Battlefield consultation, but concern about delays with Byres Road and the disappearance, hopefully temporarily, of the Renfrew to Shieldhall cycle lanes consultation. This, and lots more, below.
Continue reading “Consultation Digest Issue 29, 05 March 2019: The Good the Bad and the Ugly news from all around.”
The latest lot of Transport Scotland statistics are out (for 2017) and make for some pretty depressing reading, particularly with the demonstrated continued massive increase in car use and provision.
We’ve added the full document to the Statistics section of our Evidence pages and have pulled out some of the key facts for you here:
Continue reading “New Transport Scotland Statistics Out”