It was beautiful and sad and perfect

John Donnelly — Sun, 26 May 2019 08:00:05 +0000

We were devastated that someone tragically lost their life cycling on our roads in Glasgow this week. To show our support the cycling community came together and held a vigil at the scene. This included a two minute silence, which was started and ended by the ringing of a bike bell. During this we remembered a young woman and stood with her, her family, her friends and each other.

A silent and powerful protest this evening to remember a young woman who lost her life on her bicycle on this South Side Glasgow junction earlier this week. Our community was of all ages and backgrounds. It should be safe for us all to cycle our streets ⁦@GoBikeGlasgow⁩ pic.twitter.com/z7TecbdSjq
— Robin Ireland (@robinHEG) May 24, 2019

The number of people attending highlighted how hard this has struck home to everyone that has cycled on the roads of Glasgow. There were people of all ages and backgrounds, from commuters, local kids on bikes, all the way to gnarly couriers. It was a beautiful and sad and perfect response from our community.

People cycling in Glasgow experience danger on the roads on a daily basis. Our cycling infrastructure is currently few and far between, with much of it below standard. We urgently need greater investment for active travel from Glasgow City Council and Transport Scotland. There needs to be far stronger political will to push projects through faster. All of which should be backed up with better design standards.

Was nice being with a group of people like that pushing for positive change.

As if to show how far we have to go, a white BMW close passed a small group of us outside the Rum Shack and a bus ran a red outside the Granary on the way home.
— marc (@Xibalbus) May 24, 2019

There is a need and a demand to provide safe segregate cycle infrastructure that will enable everyone who wants to cycle in Glasgow the opportunity to do so safely. GoBike will continue to work to push for this, so that tragedies, as happened on Wednesday, never happen again.

Pollokshaws – GoBike

It was beautiful and sad and perfect