Sunday 01 December, time for the Circular GoBike ride!

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!

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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Consultation Digest (Local) Issue 166, 9 September 2024

The highlight of this issue is the long-awaited public consultation on Phase 1 of Glasgow’s City Network of fully segregated cycle lanes. There are a series of in-person events between the 8th and 19th of September, and an online consultation. Showing strong support for the city network at this stage is crucial.

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Today’s GoBike ride, new infrastructure, getting up close to Arria and, of course, the Falkirk Wheel

Despite the return of winter after the summer we enjoyed yesterday, those of us who ventured out saw this amazing statue from close up:

For more information see: https://www.lightfolio.co.uk/arria

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