The Scottish authority has already completed several its active travel City Network.
This includes the final phase of South City Way, a major new cycling link between Queens Park and the centre of Glasgow. A leg of the Connecting Battlefield project, linking South City Way and New Victoria Hospital, and North East Active Travel Route, has also been finished, with improvements including improved street lighting.
Other schemes such as the Byres Road, between Partick Cross and University Avenue, Connecting Woodside, and St George’s Road active travel corridor are either underway or due to break ground imminently. Meanwhile, Blackhill and Provanhill developments, which form a significant part of the transport provision with the wider Flourishing Molendinar masterplan, will begin later this year.
‘This year will see further progress towards Glasgow’s sustainable travel goals with construction either imminent or underway on projects including the first phase of Connecting Yorkhill and Kelvingrove, the second leg of Byres Road redevelopment, North Hanover and Kyle Street Avenues and several Sustrans-backed Avenues Plus schemes which will deliver high-quality walking and cycling links on the fringes of the city centre,’ said Cllr Angus Millar, City Convener for Transport.
‘All of these projects, which will either start or be completed this year, will help to ensure that more and more places in our city are accessible by safer, segregated infrastructure, supporting our aim that active and sustainable travel options are an attractive, viable choice for everyday journeys,’ he continued. ‘A huge amount of design work will also be progressed this year, and it is hoped that many of these pipeline projects can move to the construction phase in the near future.’
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