There are two very different replacement projects in this (belated) issue. Pollok Roundabout proposals would replace one car-centric design with another. However, plans for the replacement Monklands Hospital, Airdrie include an active travel path and bridge.

Another duo of Liveable Neighbourhood consultations return with plans to comment on – this time it’s Royston to Hogganfield and Yoker to Whiteinch. There’s also a pair of pre-consultations with both Glasgow and East Renfrewshire asking how best to engage the public.

Elsewhere, it’s last call for the Hairmyres station consultation, South Lanarkshire’s Transport Strategy and Drumchapel’s Local Development Framework. The Waiting to Happen and Doon Valley consultations continue.

Forthcoming Consultations

Cowan Park Masterplan
East Renfrewshire Council wants to hear how they should engage locals about improvements to Cowan Park, Barrhead (near Dams to Darnley). The main consultation is due to start in October. See: Cowan Park Commonplace website.

Further consultations on Liveable Neighbourhoods
Mansewood to Shawlands and Pollokshields (East) to Gorbals: surveys are due shortly.

Contents
(new consultations in bold)

1: Current Consultations

1. Hairmyres Transport Interchange
2. Glasgow Transport Strategy – Spatial Delivery Framework
3. South Lanarkshire Local Transport Strategy
4. Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft
5. Replacement University Hospital Monklands
6. Pollok Roundabout Replacement
7. City Development Plan Scheme Participation
8. Royston to Hogganfield Liveable Neighbourhoods
9. Yoker to Whiteinch Liveable Neighbourhoods
10. Waiting to Happen (junctions consultation)
11. Doon Valley Trail

2: Consultation Feedback

None this time.

3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

1. East Dunbartonshire TROs
2. Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: Hairmyres Transport Interchange

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: The first plans for the new Hairmyres train station in East Kilbride. It’s due to be moved a few hundred metres west, to Redwood Drive, where there’s more space for access and park & ride. The new location has an old stone footbridge which is being demolished. SLC say: “There is also provision of connections to the wider active travel networks as well as a new active travel bridge over the upgraded rail line and secure cycle storage at the station building areas.” That sounds promising but there’s no sign of any segregated bike lanes on Redwood Dr or Eaglesham Rd yet (although they are included in EK’s Active Travel Network plan). Also, there’s no link to the north-east towards K-Woodlands or Peel Park industrial estate. The plans are a Proposal of Application Notice from SLC for consultation (like a draft, ahead of a final plan).
Website links: Hairmyres Transport Interchange webpage and Hairmyres TI survey (3 pages).
Deadline: 25 August 2023.

1.2: Glasgow Transport Strategy – Spatial Delivery Framework

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: A short-lived consultation that only started on 17 August. However, it seems the survey may have closed early! The consultation page also has a broken link to the Glasgow Transport Strategy so let’s hope it’s just technical issues. The Spatial Delivery Framework covers some important parts of the strategy like the Bus Priority Corridors, Active Travel Network, Mobility Hubs, Freight Hubs, Road Hierarchy and the Environmental report. The survey didn’t ask about the AT network but had questions on most of the others.
Website links: GTS Spatial Delivery Framework survey and Environmental Report.
Deadline: 28 August 2023.

1.3: South Lanarkshire Local Transport Strategy

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: SLC’s previous 10-year Local Transport Strategy came out in 2013. They say: “The new strategy will set the future direction for the council’s approach to the development and upkeep of the transport infrastructure and policy within the area. The strategy will also set out how the council will contribute to the delivery of the obligations set out in the National and Regional Transport Strategies and other key policy drivers.”
SLC have Active Travel network maps for all its towns but lack safe routes between some, especially East Kilbride to Hamilton or Strathaven. As well as upgrades due to Hairmyres and East Kilbride train stations, the town had a new dual carriageway added at Greenhills Rd and proposals for another on Stewartfield Way. In Cambuslang, locals protested against the Cathkin Relief Road dual carriageway and received compensation after it was built. The Clydesdale STAG process covers roads, active travel, bus and rail proposals, including two potential station re-openings (Law and Symington).
Website links: Local Transport Strategy 2024-2034 webpage and LTS 2024-2034 survey (quite long).
Deadline: 1 Sept 2023.

1.4: Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Consultation to “inform the final Local Development Framework (LDF) for Drumchapel, a document which will recommend coordinated short, medium and long-term activity to deliver the area’s future development and regeneration. Some examples of the development types the LDF considers include housing, facilities, shops, public spaces, transport infrastructure, parks and play areas. Information from engagement with the local community from late 2021 until the autumn of 2022 assisted in the development of the current draft Drumchapel LDF. The final version of the LDF will help address regeneration challenges and… development opportunities.”
Featured: Digest 102, 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel LDF page and LDF survey.
Deadline: 5 Sept 2023.

1.5: Replacement University Hospital Monklands

Organisation: NHS Lanarkshire.
Subject: New build replacement for Monklands Hospital, moving it to the former Wester Moffat farm (at the eastern edge of Airdrie). The planning application shows an active travel route from Towers Rd (near Drumgelloch train station). This will include a brand new pedestrian/cycle bridge over the North Calder Water to the west entrance of the hospital. Another plan shows a cycle parking store at the north-west corner (and what may be a shared path around the west of the building). However, there’s still a stretch of NCN75 on the A89 road east to Caldercruix. There’s potential for an off road connection going east from these new paths but nothing is shown in the plans. Any eastern path may have to go under the viaduct of the proposed East Airdrie Link Road (a.k.a. Airdrie Bypass) which North Lanarkshire Council is due to build alongside the site.
Featured: Digest 107, 1.8.
Website links: New hospital planning application.
Deadline: 9 September 2023.

1.6: Pollok Roundabout Replacement

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Replacement for Pollok roundabout (Peat Road, Barrhead Rd and Braidcraft Rd). It’s a collision blackspot and barrier to active travel near Silverburn shopping centre. The consultation mentions safety and active travel. However, the aims are all about reducing journey times for cars and buses (design funded by SPT). The proposal would replace the current three-ring circus of a roundabout with an even more complex signal-controlled double junction (add your own clown joke!). The plan has nine lanes on Barrhead Rd and would require six crossings to get from one side to the other. It could easily take 15 minutes or more for pedestrians to cross the road(s). There’s no segregated cycling infrastructure, possibly as plans date from 2016, before updated Cycling by Design guidance. An Information Day was held on 10 August at Pollok Civic Realm. Feedback from the event said the staff had little sympathy for cycling.
Website links: Pollok Roundabout plans and Pollok Roundabout survey.
Deadline: 21 September 2023.

1.7: City Development Plan Scheme Participation

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: GCC say: “The Development Plan is Glasgow’s land-use plan that sets out strategic land use changes in the city for a 20 year period. This short survey is intended to engage interested parties on how best the Council can engage with citizens and stakeholders during the production of the city’s next Development Plan over the next 5 years.” So, engagement about engagement? The survey asks if you think GCC’s plans to promote the plan are sufficient or not.
Website links: Plan Scheme survey.
Deadline: 27 September 2023.

1.8: Royston to Hogganfield Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: The Liveable Neighbourhoods project aims to improve active travel links and placemaking in sections of the city. The Royston to Hogganfield area is part of ‘Tranche 2’, which had a consultation in February 2023. The plans that came out of that are now up for comment. There are seven projects, mostly in Royston and Germiston, with one in Hogganfield. They include a plan to put an active travel route through the former St Rollox train works between Royston and the retail park. Also, to simplify paths between Royston Rd and Castle St. Other projects in the area include Royston Road Masterplan, Flourishing Molendinar (Blackhill) and the replacement for Barlinnie Prison.
Various consultation events will take place in late August/early September…
Outdoor pop-up events:
27 August (1100 – 1300) – Hogganfield Park, near the playpark;
9 September (1100 – 1300) – Alexandra Park by the Saracen Fountain.
In-depth Workshop:
29 August (18:30 – 20:00) Roystonhill Community Hub.
Drop-in sessions:
29 August (1100 – 1230) – Roystonhill Community Hub;
7 September (1230 – 1400) – Molendinar Community Centre;
13 September (1800 – 1930) – Roystonhill Community Hub.
Featured: Digest 129, 1.8.
Website links: Royston to Hogganfield plans and survey.
Deadline: 01 October 2023.

1.9: Yoker to Whiteinch Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Yoker to Whiteinch is also a ‘Tranche 2’ Liveable Neighbourhood. It has eight potential projects spread across the area. Most involve crossing improvements with one replacing an underpass at Victoria Park Drive South. There’s also some potential modal filters in Scotstoun and Hawick St (using bollards, planters, etc. to block through car traffic but still allow bikes and pedestrians). Some of the major roads, like Anniesland Road/Kingsway, will be picked up by the City Network program instead. LN’s are only funded to this stage as a whole so each individual project will need to get funding for detailed design and construction. However, the national funding for active travel projects has been increasing and is due to rise further to 10% of the Scottish transport budget (as asked for by Pedal on Parliament). Consultation events have already started…
Outdoor pop-up events:
26 August (11:00 – 13:00) Victoria Park;
10 September (11:00 – 13:00) Yoker Park playground.
Drop-in sessions:
5 Sept (12:30 – 14:00) Whiteinch Community Centre;
6 Sept (18:00 – 19:30) Heart of Scotstoun Centre.
Featured: Digest 129, 1.7.
Website links: Yoker to Whiteinch plans and survey.
Deadline: 01 October 2023.

1.10: Waiting to Happen (junctions consultation)

Company: New Practice (architecture practice).
Subject: Community engagement by the practice where Emma Burke Newman worked. She was killed by an HGV driver while cycling at the George V bridge/Broomielaw junction, near the casino, in February 2023. This consultation is about that junction and two others – Gorbals St at the Clutha Vaults pub and Albert Bridge/Clyde St (by the High Court). NP say: “These junctions are our focus of study as they feel like incidents-waiting-to-happen, and one is the site of Emma’s death.” Diagrams show movements around each junction (and include the council’s plans for the South City Way extension at the Clutha). New Practice carried out previous consultations like George Square and have applied their knowledge to make a user friendly page. “We want to hear your experiences when walking, wheeling, scooting, or as a driver to help inform solutions specific to these locations and create systems for a safer city for us all.”
Featured: Digest 141, 1.7.
Website links: Waiting to Happen consultation page.
Deadline: No obvious deadline (but New Practice say they’ll review the submissions and present to councillors).

1.11: Doon Valley Trail

Organisation: Ayrshire Roads Alliance.
Subject: An active travel route between the southern outskirts of Ayr, South Ayrshire (near Ailsa Hospital) and Loch Doon, East Ayrshire. ARA say: “The project is currently at Phase 1 (Preparation & Brief), which includes the identification of a project Study Area and the key Constraints and Opportunities located within. The purpose of this public consultation is to inform the public of the project and to invite feedback on the project Study Area, the Constraints and Opportunities located within and any other features that the Design Team should consider.” Unfortunately, the three public events already took place in early August (in Dalrymple, Patna and Dalmellington). However, there’s an interactive map to comment on and an email address for comments.
Website links: Doon Valley Trail public consultation page and Doon Valley interactive map.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

None this time.

Section 3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

3.1: East Dunbartonshire TROs

Subject: Off-street parking amendments – deadline: 25 September 2023.
Website links: East Dunbartonshire TROs.

3.2: Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming

Subject: TRO for South Portland St (Avenues Plus), deadline: 22 September 2023.
Website links: Glasgow City Proposed TROs and Glasgow City Proposed Traffic Calming Schemes.

As cycling competitions continue, grumbling goes on about temporary closures and restrictions. However, there’s a spotlight on permanent issues for active travel at junctions around the city. Most poignantly, there’s a fresh look at Broomielaw/Clyde St in memory of Emma Burke Newman. However, in Pollok there’s another rehash of a redesign (with a public event TODAY at 1pm).

There are two South Lanarkshire consultations, one from Ayrshire then the rest are all about Glasgow. One has fine words about urban sport (despite being called CUSS!). Meanwhile, in the East End, a new sporting venue could safeguard a local landmark. Will these count towards the legacy of the 2023 World Championships (and how will that compare to 2014)?

Contents
(new consultations in bold)

1: Current Consultations

1. Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy (Glasgow)
2. Hairmyres Transport Interchange
3. South Lanarkshire Local Transport Strategy
4. Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft
5. Pollok Roundabout Replacement
6. Doon Valley Trail
7. Waiting to Happen (junctions consultation)

2: Consultation Feedback

1. Meat Market sheds regeneration

3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

1. East Dunbartonshire TROs
2. Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming
3. North Lanarkshire TROs

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy (Glasgow)

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: A draft strategy no doubt timed to coincide with the UCI World Championships coming to Glasgow. Apparently, it ties in with the Active Travel Strategy and Glasgow Transport Strategy. While this isn’t transport, venues like skateparks can become trip generators for the next generation. GCC say: “Cycling, BMX, skateboarding and other wheeled urban sports can play an important role in getting people active and improving their health and wellbeing. This can lead to an increase in active travel (walking, wheeling or cycling) for everyday journeys, helping the city’s transition to net-zero.” This should be music to the ears of the teams behind Clyde Cycle Park and the Devon St Skatepark (formerly GUS M74).
Website links: Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy draft and CUSS survey.
Deadline: 21 August 2023.

1.2: Hairmyres Transport Interchange

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: The first plans for the new Hairmyres train station in East Kilbride. It’s due to be moved a few hundred metres west, to Redwood Drive, where there’s more space for access and park & ride. The new location has an old stone footbridge which is being demolished. SLC say: “There is also provision of connections to the wider active travel networks as well as a new active travel bridge over the upgraded rail line and secure cycle storage at the station building areas.” That sounds promising but there’s no sign of any segregated bike lanes on Redwood Dr or Eaglesham Rd yet (although they are included in EK’s Active Travel Network plan). Also, there’s no link to the north-east towards K-Woodlands or Peel Park industrial estate. The plans are a Proposal of Application Notice from SLC for consultation (like a draft, ahead of a final plan).
Website links: Hairmyres Transport Interchange webpage and Hairmyres TI survey (3 pages).
Deadline: 25 August 2023.

1.3: South Lanarkshire Local Transport Strategy

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: SLC’s previous 10-year Local Transport Strategy came out in 2013. They say: “The new strategy will set the future direction for the council’s approach to the development and upkeep of the transport infrastructure and policy within the area. The strategy will also set out how the council will contribute to the delivery of the obligations set out in the National and Regional Transport Strategies and other key policy drivers.” Policies would include active travel and sustainability. SLC have AT network maps for all its towns but also built dual carriageways in recent years. Locals protested against the Cathkin Relief Road in Cambuslang and received compensation. East Kilbride has had the questionable dualling of Greenhills Rd and proposals for Stewartfield Way plus upgrades due to Hairmyres and East Kilbride train stations. The Clydesdale STAG covers roads, active travel, bus and rail proposals, including two potential station re-openings (Law and Symington).
Website links: Local Transport Strategy 2024-2034 webpage and LTS 2024-2034 survey (quite long).
Deadline: 1 Sept 2023.

1.4: Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Consultation to “inform the final Local Development Framework (LDF) for Drumchapel, a document which will recommend coordinated short, medium and long-term activity to deliver the area’s future development and regeneration. Some examples of the development types the LDF considers include housing, facilities, shops, public spaces, transport infrastructure, parks and play areas. Information from engagement with the local community from late 2021 until the autumn of 2022 assisted in the development of the current draft Drumchapel LDF. The final version of the LDF will help address regeneration challenges and… development opportunities.”
Featured: Digest 102, 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel LDF page and LDF survey.
Deadline: 5 Sept 2023.

1.5: Pollok Roundabout Replacement

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Replacement for Pollok roundabout (Peat Road, Barrhead Rd and Braidcraft Rd). It’s a collision blackspot and barrier to active travel near Silverburn shopping centre. The consultation mentions safety and active travel. However, the aims are all about reducing journey times for cars and buses (design funded by SPT). The proposal would replace the current three-ring circus of a roundabout with an even more complex signal-controlled double junction (add your own clown joke!). The plan has nine lanes on Barrhead Rd and would require six crossings to get from one side to the other. If each had a 2-minute wait (optimistic), plus the walk in the middle, it may take 15 minutes or more for pedestrians to cross the road(s). There’s no segregated cycling infrastructure, possibly as plans date from 2016, before updated Cycling by Design guidance.
Information Day: TODAY from 1–7 pm at Pollok Civic Realm, Cowglen Road.
Website links: Pollok Roundabout plans and Pollok Roundabout survey.
Deadline: 21 September 2023.

1.6: Doon Valley Trail

Organisation: Ayrshire Roads Alliance.
Subject: An active travel route between the southern outskirts of Ayr, South Ayrshire (near Ailsa Hospital) and Loch Doon, East Ayrshire. ARA say: “The project is currently at Phase 1 (Preparation & Brief), which includes the identification of a project Study Area and the key Constraints and Opportunities located within. The purpose of this public consultation is to inform the public of the project and to invite feedback on the project Study Area, the Constraints and Opportunities located within and any other features that the Design Team should consider.” Unfortunately, the three public events already took place in early August (in Dalrymple, Patna and Dalmellington). However, there’s an interactive map to comment on and an email address for comments.
Website links: Doon Valley Trail public consultation page and Doon Valley interactive map.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.7: Waiting to Happen (junctions consultation)

Company: New Practice (architecture practice).
Subject: Community engagement by the practice where Emma Burke Newman worked. She was killed by an HGV driver while cycling at the George V bridge/Broomielaw junction, near the casino, in February 2023. This consultation is about that junction and two others – Gorbals St at the Clutha Vaults pub and Albert Bridge/Clyde St (by the High Court). NA say: “These junctions are our focus of study as they feel like incidents-waiting-to-happen, and one is the site of Emma’s death.” Diagrams show movements around each junction (and include the council’s plans for the South City Way extension at the Clutha). New Practice carried out previous consultations like George Square and have applied their knowledge to make a user friendly page. “We want to hear your experiences when walking, wheeling, scooting, or as a driver to help inform solutions specific to these locations and create systems for a safer city for us all.”
Website links: Waiting to Happen consultation page.
Deadline: No obvious deadline (but New Practice say they’ll review the submissions and present to councillors).

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

2.1: Meat Market sheds regeneration

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: News that GCC have approved a pre-lease of 25 years for the historic sheds near Bellgrove St. It’s with the new Meat Market Heritage Trust (which includes members of Milnbank Housing Association). The Trust plans to develop a community sports hub, office space and a park at the site. The area between the flats and sheds is already due to have new paths and a playpark as part of the current 251-flat Meatmarket development. If the Trust can attract funding then the new plans should extend that area between Bellgrove St and Melbourne St/Armour St. On the other side of the railway at Gallowgate there are 254 new homes under construction for ‘Calton Village’ (between Melbourne St and Barrack St). The developments should make the area between Morrisons and Reidvale St more vibrant and more permeable (if not as directly as in pre-2008 plans).
Website links: Meat Market sheds article (Glasgow Times).

Section 3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

3.1: East Dunbartonshire TROs

Subject: Clachan of Campsie waiting restrictions (yellow lines). Deadline: 22 August 2023.
Website links: East Dunbartonshire TROs.

3.2: Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming

Subject: TROs for further School Streets (seven locations).
Website links: Glasgow City Proposed TROs and Glasgow City Proposed Traffic Calming Schemes.

3.3: North Lanarkshire TROs

Areas: Cumbernauld.
Subject: Roadside, Cumbernauld – Installation of Environmental Improvements (Roadside is the name of a street in the north-east of the town). The improvements are mostly speed cushions and traffic islands.
Website links: North Lanarkshire Live Consultations.

It’s less than a week until the UCI World Championships take place around Glasgow/Scotland. It’s the first combined event including every cycling discipline and should bring thousands of fans to the city. The UCI’s world champion colours are all over the city centre, including on stripey Cyclehangars. The City Council is using the spotlight to consult on a cycle sports strategy. Hopefully there’s more of a legacy for urban sports like BMX from this championship than there was from the Commonwealth Games.

This Digest also has two consultations from South Lanarkshire, one from South Ayrshire, a quick one from East Dunbartonshire and a long Framework from Glasgow.

Addition: Forthcoming consultation event

Pollok Roundabout redesign
Consultation event: Thurs 10 August, 1pm to 7pm at Pollok Civic Realm.
Website link: Pollok Roundabout plans and Pollok Roundabout survey.

Contents
(new consultations in bold)

1: Current Consultations

1. Girvan to Grangeston Active Travel Route
2. Lennoxtown Greenspace Improvement Project Consultation
3. Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy (Glasgow)
4. Hairmyres Transport Interchange
5. South Lanarkshire Local Transport Strategy
6. Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

2: Consultation Feedback

1. #YouDecide Renfrewshire – Successful projects

3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

1. East Dunbartonshire TROs
2. Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming
3. North Lanarkshire TROs

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: Girvan to Grangeston Active Travel Route

Council: South Ayrshire (via Ayrshire Roads Alliance).
Area: Coastal town of Girvan – the area to the north seems to be Grangeston (without an ‘e’) but it’s the Grangestone Industrial Estate.
Subject: Stage 1 of a Places for Everyone project looking at initial route options. Proposed routes go between the industrial estate, community hospital, train station, Girvan town centre and quay. Each section has between two and four options for feedback. Public events have already taken place. Stage 1 results will feed into Stage 2: Concept Design in the autumn.
Website links:Girvan to Grangeston consultation page, Girvan storymap (route plans), Girvan flyer (Easy Read) and Girvan survey.
Deadline: 30 July 2023.

1.2: Lennoxtown Greenspace Improvement Project Consultation

Council: East Dunbartonshire Council.
Area: Two parks in Lennoxtown linked by its railway path: Station Road Park and, to the east, Ferguson Park.
Subject: Proposals to convert old blaes pitches in each park to create new paths and areas of grass and wildflowers. At Station Road, the blaes pitch would have a new diagonal path put across it with a meadow and mown grass ‘node’. Also, there’s an improved entrance onto the side street that links to Main St (A891).
Ferguson Park’s blaes pitch would become a meadow with a ‘node’ and seating. Also, there’s a potential link across the Glazert Water to Milton Rd (further along A891). Apparently, the designs allow for flood risk from the burn as well.
Website links: Lennoxtown Greenspace Improvement Project Consultation page and Lennoxtown GIP survey.
Deadline: 31 July 2023.

1.3: Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: A draft strategy no doubt timed to coincide with the UCI World Championships coming to Glasgow. Apparently, it ties in with the Active Travel Strategy and Glasgow Transport Strategy. While this isn’t transport, venues like skateparks can become trip generators for the next generation. GCC say: “Cycling, BMX, skateboarding and other wheeled urban sports can play an important role in getting people active and improving their health and wellbeing. This can lead to an increase in active travel (walking, wheeling or cycling) for everyday journeys, helping the city’s transition to net-zero.” This should be music to the ears of the teams behind Clyde Cycle Park and the Devon St Skatepark (formerly GUS M74).
Website links: Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy draft and CUSS survey.
Deadline: 21 August 2023.

1.4: Hairmyres Transport Interchange

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: The first plans for the new Hairmyres train station in East Kilbride. It’s due to be moved a few hundred metres west, to Redwood Drive, where there’s more space for access and park & ride. The new location has an old stone footbridge which is being demolished. SLC say: “There is also provision of connections to the wider active travel networks as well as a new active travel bridge over the upgraded rail line and secure cycle storage at the station building areas.” That sounds promising but there’s no sign of any segregated bike lanes on Redwood Dr or Eaglesham Rd yet (although they are included in EK’s Active Travel Network plan). Also, there’s no link to the north-east towards K-Woodlands or Peel Park industrial estate. The plans are a Proposal of Application Notice from SLC for consultation (like a draft, ahead of a final plan).
Website links: Hairmyres Transport Interchange webpage and Hairmyres TI survey (3 pages).
Deadline: 25 August 2023.

1.5: South Lanarkshire Local Transport Strategy

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: SLC’s previous 10-year Local Transport Strategy came out in 2013. They say: “The new strategy will set the future direction for the council’s approach to the development and upkeep of the transport infrastructure and policy within the area. The strategy will also set out how the council will contribute to the delivery of the obligations set out in the National and Regional Transport Strategies and other key policy drivers.” Policies would include active travel and sustainability. SLC have AT network maps for all its towns but also built dual carriageways in recent years. Locals protested against the Cathkin Relief Road in Cambuslang and received compensation. East Kilbride has had the questionable dualling of Greenhills Rd and proposals for Stewartfield Way plus upgrades due to Hairmyres and East Kilbride train stations. The Clydesdale STAG covers roads, active travel, bus and rail proposals, including two potential station re-openings (Law and Symington).
Website links:  Local Transport Strategy 2024-2034 webpage and LTS 2024-2034 survey (quite long).
Deadline: 1 Sept 2023.

1.6: Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Consultation to “inform the final Local Development Framework (LDF) for Drumchapel, a document which will recommend coordinated short, medium and long-term activity to deliver the area’s future development and regeneration. Some examples of the development types the LDF considers include housing, facilities, shops, public spaces, transport infrastructure, parks and play areas. Information from engagement with the local community from late 2021 until the autumn of 2022 assisted in the development of the current draft Drumchapel LDF. The final version of the LDF will help address regeneration challenges and… development opportunities.”
Featured: Digest 102, 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel LDF page and LDF survey.
Deadline: 5 Sept 2023.

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

2.1: #YouDecide Renfrewshire – Successful projects

Council: Renfrewshire.
Subject: A belated catch-up with this participatory budget project. In 2022, Renfrewshire Council asked local people about how it should spend £1.2million for local infrastructure projects. A vote on the 115-strong shortlist took place at the turn of the year. Apparently, about 50 successful projects were announced a few months ago. Some of the improvements include path and lighting upgrades (and seating next to NCN75 in Elderslie). Works are due to be complete by the end of 2023.
Featured: Digest 125, 1.1.
Website links: #YouDecide Successful projects.

Section 3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

3.1: East Dunbartonshire TROs

Subject: Clachan of Campsie waiting restrictions (yellow lines). Deadline: 22 August 2023.
Website links: East Dunbartonshire TROs.

3.2: Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming

Subject: TROs for further School Streets, stopping up the north carriageway of Raeberry St and restrictions on Mount Street/Simpson Street.
Website links: Glasgow City Proposed TROs and Glasgow City Proposed Traffic Calming Schemes. 

3.3: North Lanarkshire TROs

Areas: Cumbernauld.
Subject: Roadside, Cumbernauld – Installation of Environmental Improvements. Roadside is the name of a street in the north-east of the town. The improvements are mostly speed cushions and traffic islands.
Website links: North Lanarkshire Live Consultations.

This issue goes out just ahead of the Glasgow Fair with consultations for Dennistoun, Calton and Pollok about to pack up for the holidays. Another for the national park ends soon and an Ayrshire seaside resort is looking to plan active travel routes. Dropping in at the last minute is a new strategy about BMX and skating in Glasgow.

Contents
(new consultations in bold)

1: Current Consultations

1. Duke Street & John Knox Street Avenues Plus project
2. Your Citizen Voice – Ideas in Calton/Pollok
3. Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Partnership Plan
4. HMP Glasgow planning application
5. Girvan to Grangeston Active Travel Route
6. Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy
7. Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

2: Consultation Feedback

1. Glasgow Uni Campus Newsletter – June 2023

3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

1. East Dunbartonshire TROs
2. Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming
3. North Lanarkshire TROs

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: Duke Street & John Knox Street Avenues Plus project

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: This Avenues Plus project was awarded Sustrans funding in July 2019. It’s about 1km long between George St and Bellgrove St. It doesn’t include the busy area where pedestrian Cameron Eaglesham was recently killed by a lorry driver. The original 2019 visual showed 1-way lanes on Duke St at the High St junction. However, the latest consultation images have a choice between 2-way lanes either on the southern side of Duke St (option 1) or northern side (option 2). John Knox St plans only reach Wishart St (at Necropolis). At public events on 15 June, consultants preferred option 1 for its connection to George St and Meatmarket development. However, option 2 would have more links with Dennistoun around Duke St Park at Ark Lane (but no link to The Drives via Westcraigs). Both options would have delays from signalised pedestrian crossings across the cycleway (to help visually impaired people).
Website links: GCC Consultation page and consultant’s site.
Deadline: 13 July 2023.

1.2: Your Citizen Voice – Ideas in Calton/Pollok

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: A pilot project to “co-design” infrastructure improvements in two neighbourhoods – Calton in the East End and Pollok in the Southside. This process would decide how to spend money allocated to each area. This funding previously came to Local Area Partnerships with a lot of question marks about how it would be spent. There are various options, many to do with basic maintenance. The best category for cycling suggestions is probably road safety. The lessons from these areas may well be applied to other wards in the city.
Website links: YCV – Calton and Calton survey. YCV – Pollok and Pollok survey.
Deadline: 14 July 2023.

1.3: Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Partnership Plan

Organisation: Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park.
Area: The park ranges from Loch Eck and Loch Goil in the west to Loch Earn and Callander in the east. Also, from Killin and Crianlarich in the north to Balloch in the south (but it misses out Helensburgh and Gare Loch).
Subject: A wide-ranging five year plan for the park. It includes a section on ‘Low Carbon Travel for Everyone’. Cycle routes and active travel are mentioned briefly but most of the section is about buses. That may make sense, considering the size of the park, but it’s still a bit disappointing. There’s already a cycle route from Balloch up the west side of Loch Lomond (and there were plans for an active travel route to Inverarnan as part of A82 works). Active travel paths were extended along the River Goil in 2021 and there seems to be plenty of scope for more.
Website links: Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Commonplace site.
Deadline: 19 July 2023.

1.4: HMP Glasgow planning application

Organisation: Scottish Prison Service.
Area: Part of former Provan gasworks site between Royston Road and M8 Junction 13.
Subject: A replacement for the current Barlinnie Prison (across the motorway in Riddrie). The road entrance to the new prison on Royston Rd will mean the 2-way cycleway would be amended. There’s a shared path along the front of the prison (with staff bike parking). The most interesting bit (apart from the gasworks blast zone!) is the proposed shared path on its western boundary. It would go from Royston Rd, on an old bridge near Germiston allotments, heading south towards Blochairn Rd. This is close to the pedestrian bridge to Alexandra Park (with its Bike Hub).
Website links: HMP Glasgow planning application (including site plan).
Deadline: 24 Jul 2023.

1.5: Girvan to Grangeston Active Travel Route

Council: South Ayrshire (via Ayrshire Roads Alliance).
Area: Coastal town of Girvan – the area to the north seems to be Grangeston (without an ‘e’) but it’s the Grangestone Industrial Estate.
Subject: Stage 1 of a Places for Everyone project looking at initial route options. Proposed routes go between the industrial estate, community hospital, train station, Girvan town centre and quay. Each section has between two and four options for feedback. Stage 1 results will feed into Stage 2: Concept Design in the autumn.
Website links: Girvan to Grangeston consultation page, Girvan storymap (route plans), Girvan flyer (Easy Read) and Girvan survey.
Deadline: 30 Jul 2023.

1.6: Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: A draft strategy no doubt timed to coincide with the UCI World Championships coming to Glasgow. “The City Council has published a draft Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy, which is under the Active Travel Strategy and is part of the wider strategic approach of the Glasgow Transport Strategy, in creating a step change in how we move around the city. Cycling, BMX, skateboarding and other wheeled urban sports can play an important role in getting people active and improving their health and wellbeing. This can lead to an increase in active travel (walking, wheeling or cycling) for everyday journeys, helping the city’s transition to net-zero.” This should be music to the ears of the team behind the Devon St Skatepark (formerly GUS M74).
Website links: Cycling & Urban Sports Strategy draft and CUSS survey.
Deadline: 21 Aug 2023.

1.7: Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Consultation to “inform the final Local Development Framework (LDF) for Drumchapel, a document which will recommend coordinated short, medium and long-term activity to deliver the area’s future development and regeneration. Some examples of the development types the LDF considers include housing, facilities, shops, public spaces, transport infrastructure, parks and play areas. Information from engagement with the local community from late 2021 until the autumn of 2022 assisted in the development of the current draft Drumchapel LDF. The final version of the LDF will help address regeneration challenges and… development opportunities.”
Featured: Digest 102, 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel LDF page and LDF survey.
Deadline: 5 Sept 2023.

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

2.1: Glasgow Uni Campus Newsletter – June 2023

Organisation: Multiplex.
Subject: The new campus development is nearing completion. The business school building is being fitted out and hard landscaping done around it. Also, the new campus held its first Dr Bike event for Bike Week. Hopefully the first of many with the protected cycle lanes also under construction on Byres Road.
Website links: Campus Newsletter June 2023.

Section 3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

3.1: East Dunbartonshire TROs

Areas: Kirkintilloch.
Subject: A TRO about raised road tables on Union St, Kirkie – deadline: 14 July 2023.
A series of TROs about Canniesburn Toll roundabout are changing pavements to shared path, creating car parking spaces and a raised road table at the shops. Also, they’re altering the speed limit on part of the Switchback Road. EDC shared the plans with us at Stage 1 and GoBike responded with different examples they could use to reduce conflict between people walking and cycling. However, they seem to have ignored our suggestions (and ditched previous plans for segregation). Deadline: 25 July 2023.
Website links: East Dunbartonshire TROs.

3.2: Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming

Subject: TROs to stop up Raeberry St and bring restrictions on Mount Street/Simpson Street come into effect on 21 July.
Website links: Glasgow City Proposed TROs and Glasgow City Proposed Traffic Calming Schemes.

3.3: North Lanarkshire TROs

Areas: Motherwell and Airdrie.
Subject: A TRO for loading restrictions on the new unnamed access road to Motherwell train station. Also, a TRO about adding a puffin crossing on A73 Carlisle Road, Airdrie. However, the order seems to have the wrong measurement for its position south of Brownsburn Rd (should 25m be 2.5m?). Deadline: 19 July 2023.
Website links: North Lanarkshire Live Consultations.

A belated issue with a range of consultations from town centres and neighbourhoods to parks and prisons. New plans from North Lanarkshire, not-so-new plans from East Dunbartonshire and a mixture from Glasgow.

Contents
(new consultations in bold)

1: Current Consultations

1. Town Action Plan consultations – North Lanarkshire
2. Bishopbriggs Civic Space
3. Green and open space survey – North Lanarkshire
4. Duke Street & John Knox Street Avenues Plus project
5. Your Citizen Voice – Ideas in Calton/Pollok
6. Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Partnership Plan
7. HMP Glasgow planning application
8. Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

2: Consultation Feedback

1. Active travel infrastructure funding awarded

3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

1. East Dunbartonshire TROs
2. Glasgow City TROs
3. North Lanarkshire TROs

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: Town Action Plan consultations – North Lanarkshire

Council: North Lanarkshire.
Area: Airdrie, Motherwell and Wishaw town centres.
Subject: Consultative draft plans with a tight deadline (apparently online for weeks but not on NLC’s consultations page). As our shopping habits change, all three towns add more residential development to replace some retail. Motherwell’s plan is the most radical, potentially demolishing the Aquatec leisure centre and building a new square and pedestrian bridge over the railway. However, it doesn’t include much for cycling. Airdrie and Wishaw’s plans both have a cycle route but North Lanarkshire don’t seem to do on-road protected lanes. Instead, NLC prefers painted lanes or shared paths. Wishaw already has some of the latter on pavements on Alexander St. Airdrie’s visual shows painted lanes past its health centre (with a left hook risk!). The rest of the route mostly uses green space to the north-east of its centre. However, the town could do with links south to NCN75 and west to neighbouring Coatbridge.
Website links: Town Action Plans introduction,
Deadline: 30 June 2023.

1.2: Bishopbriggs Civic Space

Council: East Dunbartonshire.
Subject: Latest stage of consultation, now looking to finalise designs for phase 1 works. The ‘civic space’ is on Kirkintilloch Rd (A803) at the cross next to St Matthews Church and the Triangle shopping centre. The main focus is removing a mini-roundabout, service road and car parking to create a larger public space. Masterplan B is the preferred option EDC want to fine-tune. Visualisations for that option include a very short 2-way protected cycleway (~130m) on the western side of the A803. However, the wider masterplan shows a bi-directional cycleway continuing south of Bishopbriggs Cross (at Kenmure Ave/Springfield Rd). It’s not clear how to get in or out of the lane going southbound. It seems you may have to go on the carriageway in between the junctions so it’s unlikely to work for an ‘unaccompanied 12-year-old’, as cited in guidance like Cycling by Design or LTN 1/20.
Website links: Bishopbriggs Civic Space storymap.
Deadline: June 30 2023.

1.3: Green and open space survey – North Lanarkshire

Council: North Lanarkshire.
Subject: Survey and audit data to feed into an Open Space Strategy and other policies. NLC avoid on-street protected cycle lanes, so anything affecting off-street paths could have a big impact on cycling in the county. Areas like the Seven Lochs Wetland Park have cross-border active travel routes (Hogganfield Loch to Drumpellier Country Park, Coatbridge). NL’s other country parks, Palacerigg and especially Strathclyde Park, are also havens for active travel. The latter has added and upgraded paths near Bellshill with more of NCN74 due to be re-routed through the park. The council ignored a GoBike suggestion for links between Strathclyde Park, Duchess Park, Ravenscraig and the existing Greenlink route (as part of redevelopment of Airbles Rd). There’s potential for similar links around some of North Lanarkshire’s dozen nature reserves. The consultation has a general survey and one about specific places that are important to visitors or residents.
Website links: Green and open space surveys.
Deadline: 10 July 2023.

1.4: Duke Street & John Knox Street Avenues Plus project

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: This Avenues Plus project was awarded Sustrans funding in July 2019. It’s about 1km long between George St and Bellgrove St. It doesn’t include the busy area where pedestrian Cameron Eaglesham was recently killed by a lorry driver. John Knox St plans only reach Wishart St (at Necropolis). The original 2019 visual showed 1-way lanes on Duke St at the High St junction. However, the latest consultation images have a choice between 2-way lanes either on the southern side of the road (option 1) or northern side (option 2). At public events on 15 June, consultants preferred option 1 for its connection to George St and Meatmarket development. However, option 2 would have more links with Dennistoun around Duke St Park at Ark Lane (but no link to The Drives via Westcraigs). Both options would have delays from signalised pedestrian crossings across the cycleway (to help visually impaired people).
Website links: GCC Consultation page and consultant’s site.
Deadline: 13 July 2023.

1.5: Your Citizen Voice – Ideas in Calton/Pollok

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: A pilot project to “co-design” infrastructure improvements in two neighbourhoods – Calton in the East End and Pollok in the Southside. This process would decide how to spend money allocated to each area. This funding previously came to Local Area Partnerships with a lot of question marks about how it would be spent. There are various options, many to do with basic maintenance. The best category for cycling suggestions is probably road safety. The lessons from these areas may well be applied to other wards in the city.
Website links: YCV – Calton and Calton survey. YCV – Pollok and Pollok survey.
Deadline: 14 July 2023.

1.6: Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Partnership Plan

Organisation: Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park.
Area: The park ranges from Loch Eck and Loch Goil in the west to Loch Earn and Callander in the east. Also, from Killin and Crianlarich in the north to Balloch in the south (but it misses out Helensburgh and Gare Loch).
Subject: A wide-ranging five year plan for the park. It includes a section on ‘Low Carbon Travel for Everyone’. Cycle routes and active travel are mentioned briefly but most of the section is about buses. That may make sense, considering the size of the park, but it’s still a bit disappointing. There’s already a cycle route from Balloch up the west side of Loch Lomond (and there were plans for an active travel route to Inverarnan as part of A82 works). Active travel paths were extended along the River Goil in 2021 and there seems to be plenty of scope for more.
Website links: Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park Commonplace site.
Deadline: 19 July 2023.

1.7: HMP Glasgow planning application

Organisation: Scottish Prison Service.
Area: Part of former Provan gasworks site between Royston Road and M8 Junction 13.
Subject: A replacement for the current Barlinnie Prison (across the motorway in Riddrie). The road entrance to the new prison on Royston Rd will mean the 2-way cycleway would be amended. There’s a shared path along the front of the prison (with staff bike parking). The most interesting bit (apart from the gasworks blast zone!) is the proposed shared path on its western boundary. It would go from Royston Rd, on an old bridge near Germiston allotments, heading south towards Blochairn Rd. This is close to the pedestrian bridge to Alexandra Park (with its Bike Hub).
Website links: HMP Glasgow planning application (including site plan).
Deadline: 24 Jul 2023.

1.8: Drumchapel Local Development Framework – Draft

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Consultation to “inform the final Local Development Framework (LDF) for Drumchapel, a document which will recommend coordinated short, medium and long-term activity to deliver the area’s future development and regeneration. Some examples of the development types the LDF considers include housing, facilities, shops, public spaces, transport infrastructure, parks and play areas. Information from engagement with the local community from late 2021 until the autumn of 2022 assisted in the development of the current draft Drumchapel LDF. The final version of the LDF will help address regeneration challenges and… development opportunities.”
Featured: Digest 102, 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel LDF page and LDF survey.
Deadline: 5 Sept 2023.

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

2.1: Active travel infrastructure funding awarded

Council: Various.
Subject: Projects awarded national funding – £20m from Transport Scotland through the Active Travel Transformation Fund (ATTF):

• East Dunbartonshire: £200k – Regent Gardens, Kirkintilloch Town Centre Links Project.
• East Renfrewshire: £950k – A77 Active Corridor, Phase 2.
• Glasgow City: £4m – Connecting Battlefield (accelerated delivery of first section to extend South City Way to New Victoria Hospital), North East Active Travel Route and the Pitt Street Active Travel Link.
• North Lanarkshire: £1.75m – Motherwell Station Active Travel Links Phase 1c, Alexander Street, Wishaw – Active Travel  Improvements and A73 Carlisle Road, Airdrie, Active Travel Improvements.
• Renfrewshire: £2.43m – North Renfrewshire Active Travel (Phase 3 – Red Smiddy Roundabout to Southolm Roundabout Erskine and Park Mains High School Footbridge on A726). AMIDS South – Gallowhill, Hawkhead Estate to Seedhill Road active travel link and Paisley to Renfrew Active Travel Route.
• West Dunbartonshire: £100k – Kilbowie Rd, Clydebank cycleway.

Website links: Transport Scotland announcement.

Section 3: Proposed Traffic Regulation Orders

3.1: East Dunbartonshire TROs

Areas: Kirkintilloch.
Subject: A TRO about raised road tables on Union St, Kirkie – deadline: 14 July 2023.
A series of TROs about Canniesburn Toll roundabout are changing pavements to shared path, creating car parking spaces and a raised road table at the shops. Also, they’re altering the speed limit on part of the Switchback Road. EDC shared the plans with us at Stage 1 and GoBike responded with different examples they could use to reduce conflict between people walking and cycling. However, they seem to have ignored our suggestions (and ditched previous plans for segregation). Deadline: 25 July 2023.
Website links: East Dunbartonshire TROs.

3.2: Glasgow City TROs and Traffic Calming

Subject: School streets are being made permanent at eight primary schools across the city: Annette Street Primary School – Annette Street; Carmyle Primary School – Hillcrest Road; St Joachim’s Primary School – Montrose Avenue; St Saviour’s Primary School – Neptune Street; Riverside Primary School – Southcroft Street; Sandaig Primary School – Burnmouth Road; St Bartholomew’s Primary School – Cavin Road; Whiteinch Primary School – Medwyn Street. Deadline: 10 July.
Website links: Glasgow City Proposed TROs and Glasgow City Proposed Traffic Calming Schemes.

3.3: North Lanarkshire TROs

Areas: Motherwell and Airdrie.
Subject: A TRO for loading restrictions on the new unnamed access road to Motherwell train station. Also, a TRO about adding a puffin crossing on A73 Carlisle Road, Airdrie (possibly funded by ATTF, above). However, the order seems to have the wrong measurement for its position south of Brownsburn Rd (should 25m be 2.5m?). Deadline: 19 July 2023.
Website links: North Lanarkshire Live Consultations.

Happy Easter! Things are a bit dead, before numbers rise again after the election, so it’s a chance to bring back consultations that slipped through the net in the last few months. The 12 local authorities in the Strathclyde area don’t always let us know what they’re up to!

This issue features East Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire for the first time in a while. North Ayrshire and Inverclyde still have consultations open. Also, regulars like Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire. The latter had a consultation that fell between Digest issues (see featured image, above) and sent a new update on NCN74.

Also, ahead of the local elections, check out Walk, Wheel, Cycle, Vote and consider a trip to Edinburgh for Pedal on Parliament‘s new route on 23 April (just after Earth Day).

Forthcoming consultation

Grassyards Road: Temporary cycle route extension (to MacKenzie Drive, Kilmarnock). Expected early May 2022 (presumably after the local elections).

Contents
(new/updated items in bold – link jumps to article)

Section 1: Current Consultations

1. City Centre Campus/‘Learning Quarter’ (People-First infrastructure)
2. Yorkhill to Anderston Liveable Neighbourhoods
3. Ardrossan Harbour Consultation
4. Drumchapel Local Development Framework
5. Greenock to Battery Park SfP lane

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

1. Foregate Square/James Shaw Lane, Kilmarnock (Temp. Pedestrian and Cycle Zone) TRO
2. Active & Sustainable Travel Strategy and Action Plan (ASTSAP), West Dunbartonshire
3. Churchill Ave route (& Cornwall St), East Kilbride
4. NCN74 Bothwell/Uddingston
5. East Renfrewshire Local Development Plan 2 formally adopted

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: City Centre Campus/‘Learning Quarter’ (People-First infrastructure)

Organisation: Stantec on behalf of a partnership between University of Strathclyde, City of Glasgow College and Glasgow City Council.
Area: Townhead/Cathedral St area, north-east of city centre.
Subject: Consultation on the so-called ‘Learning Quarter’ where many streets are due to be in the city’s Avenues Project, including Cathedral St and North Hanover St. The campus project would link between those to the universities and college. Firstly, the Western Route includes steep Montrose St, as it goes past Strathclyde Uni’s ‘Heart of the Campus’ (Rottenrow Gardens). There’s another hill past City of Glasgow College towards Buchanan Bus Station. Secondly, the Eastern Route would connect to Rottenrow East and link to Avenues Plus routes on George St and John Knox St. Thirdly, the Northern Route goes from Cathedral St east of the college towards the new Sighthill Bridge. The survey asks about different options for streets on the routes. Stakeholder workshops will take place after Easter.
First featured: Digest 74, Item 2.1.
Website links: Public Engagement Web Hub.
Deadline: 8 May 2022.

1.2: Yorkhill to Anderston Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: From Yorkhill, Kelvinhaugh, Stobcross, Sandyford, Finnieston to Anderston.
Subject: The latest Liveable Neighbourhoods consultation covers the area between the River Clyde, River Kelvin, Kelvingrove Park and M8. Popular active travel infrastructure in the area includes NCN7/75 and the West City Way. Also, the (almost finished?) lanes funded by City Deal on Bunhouse Rd and Old Dumbarton Rd. Further segregated cyclepaths are due for Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Cycling Village. These include Minerva St and Haugh Rd (where Bike for Good have their West hub). However, there are still plenty of gaps, as shown when the riverbank was shut during COP26. A new bridge across the Clyde at the Riverside Museum is due to start construction. Meanwhile, the SEC’s redevelopment may close off the red ‘smartie tube’ bridge at Exhibition Centre station. The M8 motorway remains a barrier to destinations like the Mitchell Library and Anderston station.
First featured: Digest 107, Item 1.11.
Website links: Yorkhill to Anderston LN (Commonplace).
Deadline: June 2022.

1.3: Ardrossan Harbour Consultation

Council: North Ayrshire.
Subject: Ardrossan Harbour and ferry terminal redevelopment “…will improve the facilities and operations at Ardrossan to meet the additional capacity provided by the MV Glen Sannox.” The much-delayed ferry is due to enter service later in 2022. Part of the proposals are about active travel routes into the site. The consultation interface is 3D but the plans are squashed into slides from a presentation. There seem to be walking and cycling lanes into both the west side (Harbour Rd) and east side (behind the Housing Association building). The presentation also mentions cycle parking, which may be at the south-west corner of the terminal. However, the plans are very hard to read. The cycle lanes should link into the Ardrossan Connections project in the town. Despite some reaction against the project in the local paper and a petition, it has held consultation events in March/April.
First featured: Digest 109, Item 1.5.
Website links: Ardrossan Harbour Consultation page and Ardrossan Harbour survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.4: Drumchapel Local Development Framework

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: The latest framework consultation, following previous strategic ones for Glasgow North, ‘Inner East’, etc. Drumchapel is known as one of the ‘big four’ post-war council housing estates (along with Castlemilk, Easterhouse and Pollok). The Drumchapel Cycle Hub is based near the sports centre but there’s very little cycling infrastructure around the area. The map has made it past 25 comments.
First featured: Digest 102, Item 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel Commonplace map, Drumchapel survey link and background.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.5: Greenock to Battery Park SfP lane

Council: Inverclyde.
Subject: A Spaces for People temporary route between Greenock town centre and a coastal park. A recent council vote was 9:2 in favour of keeping the lanes for another six months, with a further review in September. Photos in the consultation survey show a mixture of on-road ‘soft’ segregation and painted lanes on footways and across side roads. While some of the junction and bus stop treatments may not be ideal, there seem to be decent protected sections too.
Website links: Greenock Town Centre to Battery Park – Community Engagement and Inverclyde Now article on council vote.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

2.1: Foregate Square/James Shaw Lane, Kilmarnock (Temporary Pedestrian and Cycle Zone) TRO

Council: East Ayrshire (via Ayrshire Roads Alliance).
Subject: A TRO from a few months ago, which extends the previous Spaces for People scheme (which your author missed – apologies). James Shaw Lane has a taxi rank and car parking beside a multi-storey car park. It leads to Foregate Square at the Burns Mall Shopping Centre and the bus station (with links to pedestrianised King St). The Order bans general car traffic but allows Blue Badge holders, taxis and some loading. The council SfP page shows the painted treatment and signage at the tarmac end of James Shaw Ln. However, Google StreetView images (see above) suggest there’s an issue with enforcement. The multi-storey car park is due to be closed and demolished later this year. The new Order came into force on 24 February 2022.
Website links: Foregate Sq/James Shaw Ln TRO and Foregate Sq/James Shaw Ln plan.

2.2: Active & Sustainable Travel Strategy and Action Plan (ASTSAP), West Dunbartonshire

Council: West Dunbartonshire.
Subject: A new Active & Sustainable Travel Strategy consultation sadly finished in March. Unfortunately, GoBike don’t hear much from West Dunbartonshire Council (unlike East Dunbartonshire, where we’re Stage 1 consultees). The strategy’s website does mention networks of active travel routes but doesn’t mention standards like the revised Cycling by Design. As the graphic shows, there’s an emphasis on electric vehicles over active travel. However, it does at least mention an e-bike charging network. There is some good active travel infrastructure in West Dumbartonshire, like the Bowline. But, as in most council areas, they lack protected everyday routes outside the National Cycle Network. This includes tourist destinations like the car-centric Loch Lomond Shores. WDC share some transport and environmental functions with East Dunbartonshire and Inverclyde councils. Inverclyde recently posted a Shared Services update on behalf of the local authorities.
Website link: Active & Sustainable Travel Strategy and Action Plan site, Results of Strategy Consultation (Phase 1 PDF), ASTSAP Appendix A (Emissions PDF), ASTSAP Appendix B (Sustainable Travel. PDF).

2.3: Churchill Ave route (& Cornwall St), East Kilbride

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: This consultation came up between Digests (with a deadline the day before the next one!). The route starts on Cornwall St and should solve some of the issues going east at the taxi rank. The segregated 2-way cycletracks go north on Churchill Avenue towards West Mains Rd and Aldi. The rest of the route goes south-east, where it links with an existing path towards South Lanarkshire College. An alternative route under the roundabout avoids the double road crossing but the new route doesn’t connect directly to it. Perhaps due to concerns about underpasses, from college students/staff at the consultation workshop. While the above route uses verges, it would change some kerblines and require roadworks. W Mains Rd’s Places for Everyone project drew criticism for that so there may be more flak to come. W Mains Rd is due further work to build a protected junction at Torrance Rd.
First featured: Digest 102, Item 1.4.
Website link: Churchill Ave proposal 1 (PDF), Churchill Ave proposal 2 (PDF), Churchill Ave proposal 3 (PDF) and EK town centre network phasing.

2.4: NCN74 Bothwell/Uddingston

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Subject: Also in South Lanarkshire, GoBike member Denny passed on a response from the council about re-routing NCN74 between the Raith Interchange and Uddingston. SLC said: “the proposed rerouting and improvement designs will shortly be going out to Public Consultation.” Also: “construction has started on an off-road section between North British Road and Bellshill Road. This path will now incorporate a 3m wide cycle lane accompanied by a 2m wide pedestrian pavement. It is anticipated that this work will be completed by 15 April 2022, weather depending.” This section was already a popular off-road path so the extra width should help avoid conflicts between people.

2.5: East Renfrewshire Local Development Plan 2 formally adopted

Council: East Renfrewshire.
Subject: East Ren’s new Local Development Plan finally made it over the finishing line. Following consultation, going to the Scottish Government Reporter, then Scottish Ministers (as we last heard in Digest 102, 2.5). ERC emailed: “As of 31st March 2022, the East Renfrewshire Local Development Plan 2 is now formally adopted.”
First featured: Digest 47, Item 1.5 (response: Digest 49, 1.3).
Website link: East Renfrewshire LDP2 page.

The Digest will take a break and return in May.

Happy St Patrick’s Day! There’s good news about Spaces for People measures in the city – the TRO for Kelvin Way is out. However, there’s more mixed news on SfP measures in towns. After East Renfrewshire’s about turn on Ayr Rd/Fenwick Rd, now Renfrewshire’s Paisley to Howwood protected route is being removed. In contrast, Inverclyde vote to keep an SfP route in Greenock.

The long-awaited city centre campuses consultation is open about (steep!) routes around Strathclyde Uni and City of Glasgow College. Meanwhile, a few Avenues are under scrutiny, there’s more secure bike parking on the way and Barclays is nearly finished with West St.

Forthcoming Consultation

Glasgow City Council: “proposal to create a ‘People First Zone’ – between Hope Street, Cowcaddens Road, North Hanover Street / Glassford Street and Howard Street – where people are able to easily and safely walk and wheel around, and feel that they – and not vehicles – have priority.” Apparently, a “six-week consultation on the City Centre Transformation Plan will begin in May.” Much more notice than we usually get from GCC – it probably has something to do with the ‘purdah’/pre-election period starting this week.

Contents
(new/updated items in bold – link jumps to article)

Section 1: Current Consultations

1. St Helen’s Primary School, Bishopbriggs TRO
2. A81 Milngavie Road/Maryhill Road TRO
3. Electric Vehicle Charging Places – East Dunbartonshire TROs
4. New Hospital Plans – Airdrie (Monklands Replacement Project)
5. ‘Various Roads’ (North Lanarkshire schools) TRO
6. School Streets, Glasgow TRO (Merrylee/OLA)
7. Kelvin Way TRO
8. City Centre Campus/‘Learning Quarter’ (People-First infrastructure)
9. Yorkhill to Anderston Liveable Neighbourhoods
10. Drumchapel Local Development Framework
11. Malls Mire survey
12. *ADDITION: Greenock to Battery Park SfP lane

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

1. Howwood to Paisley, cycle lane removal (Johnstone, Renfrewshire)
2. Secure On-Street Cycle Parking Pilot (Glasgow)
3. Argyle St (West) and Cambridge St design review
4. Barclays, West St update

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: St Helen’s Primary School, Bishopbriggs TRO

Council: East Dunbartonshire.
Area: Wester Cleddens Rd and Pentland Dr, Bishopbriggs.
Subject: Parking restrictions around St Helen’s Primary School. It’s across Wester Cleddens Rd from Bishopbriggs Academy and Thomas Muir Primary School (near to the Wester Way).
First featured: Digest 106, Item 1.7.
Website links: St Helen’s PS TRO (combined PDF).
Deadline: 18 March 2022.

1.2: A81 Milngavie Road/Maryhill Road TRO

Council: East Dunbartonshire.
Area: Southern part of Bearsden between Kessington Public Hall and Garscube Estate.
Subject: Short sections of footway at the corner of MacFarlane St and Killermont St and along Maryhill Rd near Cluny Park. The current layout dates from 2016 during the fallout from the decision to halt the Bearsway. These bits of shared path are useful links to get to Garscube Campus and follow paths along the River Kelvin into Glasgow. It’s not clear why the TRO has come out now but, given the recent history, local members may want to contact EDC to support it.
First featured: Digest 106, Item 1.8.
Website links: A81 footway redetermination TRO (combined PDF).
Deadline: 18 March 2022.

1.3: Electric Vehicle Charging Places – East Dunbartonshire TROs

Council: East Dunbartonshire.
Subject: EDC are installing EV charging points across its area. In the east – Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch, Lennoxtown, Lenzie, Milton Of Campsie, Torrance and Twechar. Meanwhile, the west just seems to be Milngavie. The drawings don’t show if the chargers will be on the carriageway or footway.
First featured: Digest 106, Item 1.9.
Website links: West EV chargers (combined PDF) and East EV chargers (combined PDF).
Deadline: 21 March 2022.

1.4: New Hospital Plans – Airdrie (Monklands Replacement Project)

Organisation: NHS Lanarkshire.
Area: Wester Moffat Farm, east of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire.
Subject: The current University Hospital Monklands, on the western edge of Airdrie, is due to be replaced. So, a new acute hospital is to be built on former farmland recently bought by NHS Lanarkshire. The architects, Keppie, are showing drawings and visuals for feedback ahead of a planning application. These include an active travel route west towards Drumgelloch train station. Also, a large staff bike parking store has recently appeared on the plans (across the road from a hospital entrance). So far there’s still no route east, to bypass the bit of NCN75 on the fast A89 at Plains/Caldercruix (towards the Airdrie–Bathgate path). On the plus side, parts of the A89 between Airdrie and Plains will have speed limits reduced. The East Airdrie Link Road (formerly Airdrie Bypass) is a proposed single carriageway road between the M8 and Cumbernauld.
First featured: Digest 76, Item 3.3.
Website links: Monklands Replacement Project website.
Deadline: 29 March 2022.

1.5: ‘Various Roads’ (North Lanarkshire schools) TRO

Council: North Lanarkshire.
Subject: Parking restrictions near 18 schools across North Lanarkshire (including 14 primary schools). These include yellow lines and ‘Keep Clear’ markings. The Statement of Reasons says the action comes from recommendation by a Road Safety Working Group.
First featured: Digest 107, Item 1.9.
Website links: Various Roads TRO (combined PDF) – NLC Consultations page.
Deadline: 30 March 2022.

1.6: School Streets, Glasgow TRO (Merrylee/OLA)

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: ‘Take 2’ of this School Streets Traffic Order. This one only covers two schools – the neighbouring Merrylee Primary School and Our Lady of the Annunciation Primary School near Langside Drive/Merrylee Rd. The boundary has been extended since the previous version of the TRO went out. It now includes parts of Cherrybank Rd and Glasserton Rd.
First featured: Digest 105, Item 1.2.
Website links: School Streets TRO – revised (combined PDF).
Deadline: 31 March 2022.

1.7: Kelvin Way TRO

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Traffic Regulation Order to help make the temporary Spaces for People measures on Kelvin Way permanent. The street is filtered at either end. The southern end has a short 2-way protected bike lane next to 1-way access to Kelvingrove Museum. GoBike helped organise Car Free Day 2018 on Kelvin Way, which showed the potential now being realised with the current signs, paint and planters. It’s become a well-used street by people walking, cycling, running, scooting and skating. Also, it’s due to link to a wider network in the Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Cycling Village (see Yorkhill–Anderston LN post, below).
First featured: Glasgow Spaces for People blog post.
Website links: Kelvin Way TRO (combined PDF).
Deadline: 7 April.

1.8: City Centre Campus/‘Learning Quarter’ (People-First infrastructure)

Organisation: Stantec on behalf of a partnership between University of Strathclyde, City of Glasgow College and Glasgow City Council.
Area: Townhead/Cathedral St area of city centre.
Subject: As promised in Digest 107, consultation starts on infrastructure around the universities and college north-east of the city centre (‘Learning Quarter’). Many streets nearby are already due to be part of the city’s Avenues Project, including Cathedral St and North Hanover St. This project would link between those to the uni/college campuses. Firstly, the Western Route includes steep Montrose St, as it goes past Strathclyde Uni’s ‘Heart of the Campus’ (Rottenrow Gardens). There’s another hill past City of Glasgow College towards Buchanan Bus Station. Secondly, the Eastern Route would connect to Rottenrow East and link to Avenues Plus routes on George St and John Knox St. Thirdly, the Northern Route goes from a lane east of CoGC up towards the new Sighthill Bridge. The survey asks about different options for streets on the routes. Also, the ‘web hub’ includes context and evidence about the benefits of active travel.
First featured: Digest 74, Item 2.1.
Website links: Public Engagement Web Hub.
Deadline: 8 May 2022.

1.9: Yorkhill to Anderston Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: From Yorkhill, Kelvinhaugh, Stobcross, Sandyford, Finnieston to Anderston.
Subject: The latest Liveable Neighbourhoods consultation covers the area between the River Clyde, River Kelvin, Kelvingrove Park and M8. There is well used active travel infrastructure in the area, including NCN7/75 and the West City Way. Also, the (almost finished?) lanes funded by City Deal on Bunhouse Rd and Old Dumbarton Rd. Further segregated cyclepaths are due for Yorkhill and Kelvingrove Cycling Village, including Minerva St and Haugh Rd (where Bike for Good will hopefully continue). However, there are still plenty of gaps, as shown when the riverbank was shut during COP26. A new bridge across the Clyde at the Riverside Museum is due to start construction. Meanwhile, the SEC’s redevelopment may close off the red ‘smartie tube’ bridge at Exhibition Centre station. The M8 motorway remains a barrier to destinations like the Mitchell Library and Anderston station.
First featured: Digest 107, Item 1.11.
Website links: Yorkhill to Anderston LN (Commonplace).
Deadline: June 2022.

1.10: Drumchapel Local Development Framework

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: The latest framework consultation, following previous strategic ones for Glasgow North, ‘Inner East’, etc. Drumchapel is known as one of the ‘big four’ post-war council housing estates (along with Castlemilk, Easterhouse and Pollok). The Drumchapel Cycle Hub is based near the sports centre but there’s very little cycling infrastructure around the area. The map has made it past 25 comments.
First featured: Digest 102, Item 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel Commonplace map, Drumchapel survey link and background.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.11: Malls Mire survey

Organisation: Urban Roots.
Area: Woodland park between Toryglen Asda, Polmadie Recycling Centre in Glasgow and Rutherglen Glencairn Football Club in South Lanarkshire.
Subject: An evaluation about the newly created park and paths. The site wraps around a regenerated housing estate, linking former wasteground with the woodland and ponds. It includes trails, outdoor play equipment and a bike pump track. Also, 3m wide shared paths create a lit, mostly traffic-free route linking Prospecthill Circus west to Polmadie Rd and east to the corner of Toryglen Rd/Pinkerton Ave in Rutherglen. Tron Theatre will be running sensory walks in Malls Mire for five weeks starting in April. Walking Tall Tales will be for local families with children age five and under.
First featured: Digest 74, Item 3.4.
Website links: Malls Mire survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.12: *ADDITION: Greenock to Battery Park SfP lane

Council: Inverclyde.
Subject: A Spaces for People temporary route between Greenock town centre and a coastal park (previously missed by your author – apologies). A recent council vote was 9:2 in favour of keeping the lanes for another six months, with a further review in September. Photos in the consultation survey show a mixture of on-road ‘soft’ segregation and painted lanes on footways and across side roads. While some of the junction and bus stop treatments may not be ideal, there seem to be decent protected sections too.
Website links: Greenock Town Centre to Battery Park – Community Engagement and Inverclyde Now article on council vote.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

2.1: Howwood to Paisley, cycle lane removal (Johnstone, Renfrewshire)

Council: Renfrewshire.
Area: Beith Rd through Johnstone, between Paisley and Howwood.
Subject: The Paisley Gazette reports: “At a full meeting of Renfrewshire Council… elected members unanimously agreed to remove the temporary cycleway on Beith Road and examine alternative plans for active travel in the area.” A few councillors had been campaigning to have the route removed. A petition against the route had reached around 1,500 signatures. Spaces for People funding is due to stop at the end of the month. Elsewhere, protection on the SfP route on Ayr Rd/Fenwick Rd in East Renfrewshire may also be removed. The Cornwall St/Brouster Hill lanes in East Kilbride also had negative press (but the consultation hasn’t yet reported back). The Greenock to Battery Park SfP lane in Inverclyde is also under consultation. On a more positive note, in Renfrewshire work recently started on building the permanent Renfrew to Paisley cycle route.
First featured: Digest 103, Item 2.1.
Website links: Paisley Gazette article about Renfrewshire Council decision.

2.2: Secure On-Street Cycle Parking Pilot (Glasgow)

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: Expansion of secure on-street cycle parking in the city. The council report says: “Cyclehoop successfully installed 61 units in May/June 2021, which are presently at 98% occupancy across the scheme.” Also: “there is a waiting list of 1,500 across Glasgow. This waiting list data has been utilised in association with requests for provision to direct the proposed locations.” The list of new locations is weighted towards more densely populated areas like Dennistoun, Langside and Partick. G41 gets the most units of any postcode with G42 not far behind. Installation is due soon: “phase 2 of the scheme is programmed for March 2022 when installations will commence. This will deliver seventy (70) units providing an additional 420 storage spaces across the scheme as a whole.” 
First featured: Digest 88, Infrastructure Update.
Website links: Secure On-Street Cycle Parking report and list of proposed locations by postcode (PDF).

2.3: Argyle St (West) and Cambridge St design review

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: In December 2021, plans came out for the next phase of Avenues construction, including Cambridge St and the western part of Argyle St. The plans didn’t seem to improve on issues from the Sauchiehall St pilot. Nor did they meet the updated Cycling by Design standards. Both these points were put to councillors in a letter by GoBike’s convenor, Thomas. A new group had been mooted by GCC, called the Accessible Design Forum, who would review future Avenues designs. A recent BBC Scotland article highlighted issues faced by people with visual impairment on the Avenues section of Sauchiehall St. Following the piece on Reporting Scotland, GCC have responded to Cllr Christy Mearns that “two designs [Argyle St (West) and Cambridge St] have been put on hold and will be re-considered in the first ADF meeting… A date, time and venue will be confirmed shortly – likely to be towards the end of March / early April.”
First featured: Digest 101, Item 2.2.

2.4: Barclays, West St works update

Organisation: Barclays.
Area: South West City Way at Barclays site.
Subject: GoBike member Tor asked Barclays about the closed area at the north east tip of West St. Although building work is due to finish by the end of the month, it might not fully open until May. Apparently, this depends on the weather allowing further work to take place. Once it opens, there will be a new crossing at Kingston St with bike-only lights. People cycling north-south would then be able to stay on the eastern side of West St. Thus avoiding having to cross diagonally to/from the western side at Kingston St (and another crossing at Barclays site).
First featured: SWCW/Barclays works blog post.
Website links: Barclays replies to query on Twitter.

The first Digest of 2022 has a few loose ends to clear up from last year. Firstly, there’s the proposed regeneration of Shawlands Arcade on Kilmarnock Rd (as shown in split image, above). Secondly, there’s North Lanarkshire Council’s Active Travel strategy, which is a long way off the pace set by Glasgow’s.

The last edition featured negative reaction to Spaces for People lanes in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire. Another issue has come up elsewhere – a petition against SfP lanes between Paisley and Howwood in Renfrewshire.

While cycling is usually on the agenda in Glasgow it’s often missed out in surrounding areas, which feed the city’s traffic issues. Cars are king in suburban towns so any projects that try to redress the balance will need support. On a more positive note, Sustrans are funding minor upgrades to existing NCN routes in Renfrewshire and elsewhere.

Contents
(new/updated items in bold – link jumps to article)

Section 1: Current Consultations

1. A803, Kirkintilloch Road (and Side Roads) Bishopbriggs TRO
2. East Kilbride, Spaces for People
3. Shawlands Arcade Regeneration
4. Low Emission Zone – Full proposal
5. Dennistoun to Cranhill Liveable Neighbourhoods
6. Govan to Kingston Liveable Neighbourhoods
7. Ruchill to Cowlairs Liveable Neighbourhoods
8. Langside to Toryglen Liveable Neighbourhoods
9. Malls Mire survey
10. Drumchapel Local Development Framework
11. Raeberry St Quietway (Connecting Woodside)

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

1. Howwood to Paisley, Spaces for People route
2. Active Travel Strategy 2021–2031 (North Lanarkshire Council)

Section 1: Current Consultations
(in date order for responses)

1.1: A803, Kirkintilloch Road (and Side Roads) Bishopbriggs TRO

Council: East Dunbartonshire.
Area: South Bishopbriggs towards the town centre.
Subject: Parking restrictions on the eastern side of the A803 from the end of Springburn Rd (at Colston Rd) to Bishopbriggs Cross, near the train station. Also, parking restrictions at junctions on side streets along the western side of Kirkintilloch Rd, from Coltpark Ave to Brackenbrae Rd.
First featured: Digest 101, Item 1.5.
Website link: A803 & Side Roads documents (combined PDF of plans and report).
Deadline: 7 January 2022.

1.2: East Kilbride, Spaces for People

Council: South Lanarkshire.
Area: East Kilbride town centre.
Subject: Protected two-way cycle lanes on Cornwall St (replacing a road lane and a bus stop) and zebra/cycle crossings. One-way lanes towards the train station on part of Brouster Hill and a short contraflow cycle lane on Torrance Road. The route is due to be extended east to Churchill Ave and west to the Queensway for EK’s Active Travel network. The lanes have been criticised on social media. Also, a related project on West Mains Rd (adding a protected junction) had roadworks delays which angered locals, including a councillor. Please support the SfP project so the next phases can proceed as planned (unlike the Bearsway).
First featured: Digest 89, Infrastructure Update.
Website links: EK SfP online survey, South Lanarkshire View article and EK SfP plans (foot of page).
Deadline: 16 January 2022 (extended from original deadline of 24 December 2021).

1.3: Shawlands Arcade Regeneration

Organisation: Shawlands & Strathbungo Community Council (in conjunction with developers, Clydebuilt).
Area: Shawlands Arcade between Kilmarnock Rd and Pollokshaws Rd.
Subject: Regeneration of the shopping arcade. Flats above retail units with gaps for access between Kilmarnock Rd and Pollokshaws Rd. The original consultation seems to have slipped through the net in summer 2021 (apologies). However, the local Community Council are now collating ideas for the public spaces. They want links or photos of places that people like; to use as inspiration. There are no cycle lanes in the current plans (middle alley between buildings has steps). Other new developments, such as the Meatmarket at Duke St (Item 1.5), have a segregated cycle path through the site. Further consultation on the Arcade is expected soon.
Website links: S&SCC Facebook post – email: enquiries@shawlandsarcade.com or shawlandsstrathbungocc@gmail.com. Original Shawlands Arcade proposals (scroll down and click magnifying glass button to view).
Deadline: 16 January 2022.

1.4: Low Emission Zone – Full proposal

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: City centre.
Subject: Phase 2 of the Low Emission Zone in the city centre (Phase 1 was buses only). Older, more polluting motor vehicles will be charged for driving into the zone. Its boundary has changed slightly. Parts of some streets around the edges of the zone have been added to it and the Stow College/GSA building has been left out. The LEZ is due to begin on 31 May 2022 but enforcement won’t kick in until a year later. When fines do come in they escalate for repeat offences. Some ‘grace periods’ and exemptions apply, including for city centre residents, so the full zone wouldn’t be implemented until June 2024.
First featured: Digest 90, Item 1.3.
Website links: Full proposal document, detailed map PDF and further background on the LEZ website.
Deadline: 20 January 2022.

1.5: Dennistoun to Cranhill Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: From Dennistoun (including the Necropolis but not GRI), Milnbank, Haghill, Riddrie, Carntyne to Cranhill.
Subject: One of four LN consultations using Commonplace maps and the Place Standard tool. Transport links include roads like Duke St, Alexandra Parade, Cumbernauld Rd and Edinburgh Rd plus a few train stations. Apart from a few parks most big destinations are towards the city centre end – Necropolis, Tennents brewery and City Park offices. While Glasgow Royal Infirmary is just outside western edge of area. Dennistoun has held on to a few Spaces for People measures (from its failed LTN) but there’s very little infrastructure elsewhere. Consultation had started in the community but further events have been postponed. Over 380 comments on the map so far.
First featured: Digest 100, Item 1.9.
Website links: Dennistoun to Cranhill LN Commonplace map, Dennistoun to Cranhill Place Standard survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.6: Govan to Kingston Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: From ‘Greater Govan’ (including Cessnock, Kinning Park, Plantation) and Ibrox to Kingston.
Subject: ‘Everyday journeys’ around major transport links including Govan bus station, subway stations, Paisley Road West, Clyde Tunnel, Squinty Bridge/Clyde Arc and the forthcoming footbridge. Major destinations include Ibrox Stadium and the Southern General/Queen Elizabeth Uni Hospital (see next item). There’s some cycling infrastructure around Festival Park/Pacific Quay but no proper links to major routes like the nearby South West City Way. There have been over 190 comments on the map so far.
First featured: Digest 100, Item 1.10.
Website links: Govan to Kingston LN Commonplace map, Govan to Kingston Place Standard survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.7: Ruchill to Cowlairs Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: North of the canal from Ruchill (at edge of Maryhill) across Possilpark, Hamiltonhill, Rockvilla, Craighall, Keppochhill and Port Dundas to Cowlairs (plus Sighthill Park).
Subject: The edges of this area have been redeveloped with active travel routes along the canal. Nearby Sighthill is being completely rebuilt including a segregated cycle route on St Rollox Dr. However, Cowlairs, Ruchill and Possilpark have a lot of derelict sites. The Spaces for People lanes on Hawthorn St have added a west-east cycle route (with some gaps). Over 80 comments so far.
First featured: Digest 96, Item 1.5.
Website links: Ruchill to Cowlairs LN Commonplace map, Ruchill to Cowlairs Place Standard survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.8: Langside to Toryglen Liveable Neighbourhoods

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: From Langside (at edge of Shawlands) across Battlefield, Mount Florida and part of King’s Park to Toryglen (and Polmadie).
Subject: A really random Liveable Neighbourhood area, including busy Langside and empty Polmadie. There’s not much active travel infrastructure between the proposed SCW extension to Battlefield Rest and Malls Mire at Toryglen, except the protected bit of Aitkenhead Rd and the unprotected Spean St path. Over 360 comments so far.
First featured: Digest 96, Item 1.4.
Website links: Langside to Toryglen LN Commonplace map, Langside to Toryglen Place Standard survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.9: Malls Mire survey

Organisation: Urban Roots.
Area: Woodland park between Toryglen Asda, Polmadie Recycling Centre in Glasgow and Rutherglen Glencairn Football Club in South Lanarkshire.
Subject: An evaluation about the newly created park and paths. The site wraps around a regenerated housing estate, linking former wasteground with the woodland and ponds. Trails, outdoor play equipment and a bike pump track have been installed. Also, there are 3m wide shared paths to create a lit, mostly traffic-free route. It links Prospecthill Circus west to Polmadie Rd and east to the corner of Toryglen Rd/Pinkerton Ave in Rutherglen (about half a mile from Bike Town‘s workshop).
First featured: Digest 74, Item 3.4.
Website links: Malls Mire survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.10: Drumchapel Local Development Framework

Council: Glasgow City.
Subject: The latest framework consultation, following previous strategic ones for Glasgow North, ‘Inner East’, etc. According to GCC: “The purpose of the Drumchapel Local Development Framework will be to provide a structure for future development in the area. It will act as an overarching framework to identify urban planning priorities for Drumchapel and to help take them forward.” There are less than 20 comments on the map so far.
First featured: Digest 102, Item 1.12.
Website links: Drumchapel Commonplace map, Drumchapel survey link and background.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

1.11: Raeberry St Quietway (Connecting Woodside)

Council: Glasgow City.
Area: Raeberry St, North Woodside (west of Maryhill Rd).
Subject: Further project from Connecting Woodside with junction redesigns at either end of the street and new secure cycle parking. The Maryhill Rd end would be narrower and the crossing moved to make a direct link to Trossachs St (towards Garscube Rd and the canal). The new North Kelvinside/Woodside RPZ sets the car parking bays.
First featured: Digest 99, Item 1.12.
Website links: Raeberry St Quietway ‘storymap’, Raeberry St plans PDF, Raeberry St survey.
Deadline: No obvious deadline.

Section 2: Consultation Feedback

2.1: Howwood to Paisley, Spaces for People route

Council: Renfrewshire.
Area: Route along Beith Rd, from Howwood through Johnstone to Paisley.
Subject: This temporary route using ‘wands’ was installed in summer 2021. A petition started in December 2021 calling for it to be removed (which currently has over 700 signatures). It was back in the news after a cyclist was injured on Beith Road (near Rannoch Road). However, the local press report quotes a councillor talking about deaths and near misses then a council statement saying “Police Scotland attended and have confirmed to us the road layout was not a factor in this accident and the driver was not at fault.” If you use the route and want to voice support, you can email feedback to ei@renfrewshire.gov.uk.
First featured: Digest 65, Item 1.2.
Website link: Spaces for People Storymap and route plans PDF.

2.2: Active Travel Strategy 2021–2031 (North Lanarkshire Council)

Council: North Lanarkshire.
Subject: This strategy has been in the pipeline since 2020 but only reached GoBike in late 2021. We’re not aware of any public consultation. It arrives along with plans for redevelopment of town centres and country parks plus NLC’s Town/Community Hubs (schools as community centres). While neighbouring South Lanarkshire is building segregated lanes on roads, North Lanarkshire are focusing on shared paths. The strategy has a single paragraph in the PDF version about road space reallocation. However, it has pages of detail about shared path construction. The focus on routes away from main roads may come from NLC’s work with Glasgow & Clyde Valley (GCV) Green Network. However, it’s disappointing it doesn’t address needs like cycle commuting or personal safety (many greenspace routes can’t be lit as it would disrupt biodiversity).
Website link: NLC Active Travel Strategy Storymap (see Transport Context) and NLC Active Travel Strategy PDF.