We have reduction in quantity but a considerable increase in interest in the consultations in this issue of our digest. Read on: Continue reading “Consultations Digest Issue 2, 06 February 2018 – Byres Road to the Barras to Kirkintilloch”
Campaigners Day Comes to Glasgow
Cycle campaigners gather! We are in for a special treat as the annual Walk Cycle Vote Campaigners Day of training and networking is coming to Glasgow and coming very soon. Continue reading “Campaigners Day Comes to Glasgow”
Almost February – time for a ride round the parks of Glasgow’s East End with GoBike!
Another chance to see bits of the city you’ve never seen before! See our Facebook event
Sunday 4 February – East End Parks
We have previously had park rides in the north, south and west of the city, so now it is the turn of the east. As well as the big parks of Glasgow Green, Tollcross, Hogganfield and Alexandra Parks, we shall visit a number of smaller parks and open spaces, and a few other points of interest. The ride will be mostly on quiet roads and asphalt paths, except at Cardowan Moss (see image above) where we will be using well made unpaved paths. An 18 mile ride ending up in the City Centre in time for lunch.
Meet 10am Bell’s Bridge, Congress Road, Glasgow.
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Continue reading “Almost February – time for a ride round the parks of Glasgow’s East End with GoBike!”
GoBike Support for Sauchiehall Avenue Works
Today nine hardy souls came out on Sauchiehall Street to support the councils efforts in improving the street for pedestrians and cyclists.
Currently the street has significant improvement works that had started a few weeks ago. Continue reading “GoBike Support for Sauchiehall Avenue Works”
Help The Fight Against Glasgow’s Most Polluted Streets
Glasgow has been in the news once again, hitting the highest spots on an analysis on illegal street pollution levels. Our friends at Friends of the Earth Scotland explain how you can help by contacting your councillors: Continue reading “Help The Fight Against Glasgow’s Most Polluted Streets”
Sauchiehall Avenue Support Event – Sunday 28th Jan 11am
Do you have an hour to spare this coming Sunday morning? Some of our members have organised an appreciation event for the work happening on Sauchiehall Street. Here’s Euan with more:
“A safer, better Sauchiehall Street is currently under construction. There will be more space for people, complete with safe cycling provision! Come along this Sunday 28th Jan for 11am at ABC, Sauchiehall St to join us in showing support.”
GoBike Consultations Digest, Issue 1, 23 January 2018 – Scotland wide!
Welcome to the first issue of our Consultations Digest, a regular post, updating you on consultations in these three areas:
- Consultations to which GoBike has responded.
- Upcoming consultations, for which we welcome your comments as to how we should respond, but we will also include here consultations for which you, as an individual, are asked to respond.
- Feedback on submitted consultations.
So we will be giving you far more information than we have in the past and we hope that this will encourage you, as GoBike members, to not only give us your views as to how we should respond but also to put your views directly to the organisation that has issued the consultation. Continue reading “GoBike Consultations Digest, Issue 1, 23 January 2018 – Scotland wide!”
GoBike Monthly Cycle Rides
Happy New Year to all of you! Feeling overindulged and in need of some air in your lungs? Well GoBike has the thing for you… Did you know that we run monthly cycle rides showing routes in and outwith the Glasgow area? Oh yes we do, and we’d love you to join us.
Our next ride is this Sunday 7th January and takes in a 15 mile safari around the inner city, with our annual review of Glasgow’s cycle infrastructure. Planned and led by Andy Preece, each monthly ride has a different destination – see our Cycle Rides section on the website for more info or check out the events pages on our Facebook.
Let’s keep our wheels turning in 2018!
Consultations: new and forthcoming in Glasgow, with even more speed cushions proposed for Santa’s sack
Here’s a picture of the brand new Broomhill School and the City Council propose to make the road going up to the right on the picture one-way. But have they considered active travel and all the work other bits of the council do to encourage children to cycle to school? We fear they haven’t. So our letter to the council, GoBike Consultations Broomhill One Way 21 Dec 2017 about this plan, broomhill one way tro plan TRO201701501 confirms that we are happy with their proposal, provided that they maintain two-way cycling! Let’s hope that we are lucky with this one. Continue reading “Consultations: new and forthcoming in Glasgow, with even more speed cushions proposed for Santa’s sack”
People Make Byres Road
Over the last year some of our members led by Euan, Iain and Jim have been working very hard on a ‘Space for People’ @peoplebyresroad campaign based around the planned changes to Byres Road. They’ve just put out a really interesting blog illustrating connections within our current cycling network, with suggestions on how Byres Road can help start to create better connections locally and also throughout the wider city network.
Have a read – it’s great – and if you like what you read give them a follow and a share. And thanks to you three for your excellent work.