Mark McIntyre
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In Glasgow via detour in 🇳🇱. Powoli uczę się 🇵🇱. Caught cycling bug. Music/active travel/old stuff. Projecting my own views occasionally into the aether.
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It's too wet for this sort of thing in Glasgow, apparently.
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I will stop posting about cycle lanes in Glasgow soon, I promise.
But while this news is out there, it's also worth reflecting on just how many people are now using this. Up to 1,500 a day, in all weathers. 13% of journeys on Vicky Rd now are by bike. Change like this matters.
The South City Way - a successful cycle route running between Queen's Park and Trongate in the city centre - is now complete, offering a safe way for cyclists to travel between Glasgow city centre and the South Side.
Find out more 👉
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It's easy to overlook, but new, good quality cycling infrastructure is beginning to stack up in
#Glasgow
. Some way to go before we're at 🇳🇱 level, but here's a thread showing some of what's been built and what's on the way 🧵🚲🚴
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A pretty normal sight now come home time: dozens & dozens of people on bikes using the newly finished
#SouthCityWay
to travel home through the Gorbals and Govanhill (the queue in that first pic trailed quite some way back!).
#glasgow
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I was a wee bit sceptical on first hearing plans for a 20m build-out for the quayside here... but really this would be fantastic. 👇
Potential for the old public toilets building brought into use as a cafe & pavilions for other restaurants/ cafes down to the suspension bridge.
A public consultation event on 9 October will offer the chance to find out more -
and give views - on new proposals for the Custom House Quay area on the Clyde waterfront.
More info 👉
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View from the (not quite open yet) cycle path this morning. Queen's Park to Glasgow city centre route almost complete from the looks of things. Markings & street trees being added now all the way up to the river.
#SouthCityWay
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Never gonna happen for lots of good reasons, but one of my nerdier imaginings for Glasgow would be this to one day be a big interchange station for Glasgow X, a bit like Partick in the west.
Elevators down to the Argyle Line below, platforms on a reopened Union Line in the back.
The Mercat Building between London Road and Gallowgate in Glasgow. It was designed by A. Graham Henderson in a Modern Classical style was and built at the end of the 1920s.
Cont./
#glasgow
#architecture
#glasgowbuildings
#glasgowcross
#architecturephotography
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New street benches and planters around Merchant City. ☀️🌿
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More of this please! Skirving Street in
#Shawlands
closed off to traffic today and tomorrow for the annual street fair: with loads of food, music and plenty of space to sit around. Worth checking out if nearby. ☀️
#glasgow
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If you live anywhere near Govan, Ruchill, Dennistoun or Langside, it's worth dipping into the current Liveable Neighbourhood plans for the areas. Some really fantastic stuff in the pipeline. 🚲🌳
Lived most of my life just off Paisley Road and *cannot wait* for this to happen 👇
Concept designs influenced by local residents for emerging
#LiveableNeighbourhoods
have been revealed for:
▪️ Govan to Kingston
▪️ Ruchill to Cowlairs
▪️ Dennistoun to Cranhill
▪️ Langside to Toryglen
Find out more here 👉
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Saw the (soon to open) Stockingfield Bridge over the Clyde-Forth Canal in the flesh this week. Stonking. Big statement active travel infrastructure which wouldn't be out of place in the Netherlands. Things are changing! 🚲
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Curiosity sparked by
@glasgowmixtape
- and with a bit of time on my hands over the holidays - I thought I’d have a go at mapping out these extensions to the
#GlasgowSubway
circle that never quite happened in a bit more detail...🚇 Big thread below...🧵
Extremely primitive but I mapped how the Glasgow Subway network would look if the plans for 50 new stations and 10 new lines that formed part of previously considered Subway extension proposals in 1937, 1944, 1948, 1954, 1988 and 2010 had gone ahead. Existing one in orange obv
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Ramshorn Graveyard on Ingram Street. 300+ years old and in amazing condition, it's enclosed inside a full city block in Glasgow's Merchant City.
Have walked passed this 100s of times, but the gates are always locked. Open for two weeks during
#COP26
and well worth a visit.
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I sometimes wonder how much negative headlines (for clicks) help feed wider online negativity about things. Few people will read beyond a headline after all.
Half a dozen enthusiastic, positive voices in favour of the new bridge vs two mildly disinterested, negative comments.
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Any photo that's shared online of these new flats in Battlefield seems to trigger the weirdest, most concentrated, hyperbolic negativity. I just don't get it. They're... fine?
The old and the new. South side icon
@BattlefieldRest
sits alongside new housing on the old Victoria Infirmary site.
📷 Past Glasgow
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🚲 Glasgow cycle routes starting to see network effects as they begin to join up:
↗️ 40% year-on-year increase in cycling trips on the West City Way
↗️ 36% growth on South West City Way
↗️ 22% growth on Connecting Woodside routes
Number of trips on Glasgow's cycle lanes revealed in new council findings
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Very grateful to attend this
@UofGUrbStudies
organised
@ReplacetheM8
event tonight. Fantastic panel and conversation on realities and possibilities. Feels like the start of a vital push and much more public conversation on the type of city we want to live in.
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@peakay81
and
@MrScottGalloway
deserve a huge credit for starting a public conversation on this, almost from nothing, through
@ReplacetheM8
.
It's a radical, positive vision, but also daunting or potentially crazy to anyone who's never considered it before. 1/
Campaigners want to replace the stretch of M8 through Glasgow city centre with an urban boulevard.
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It's nearly here! Possibly the most impactful active travel project to hit Glasgow, bringing a direct connection over the river where there isn't one for nearly 2km in either direction (one being the Clyde Tunnel cycle/foot path😬). What a difference this'll make when it opens.
The 99-metre moving span for the new Govan-Partick Bridge active travel Clyde crossing has been lifted into place. The pedestrian/cycle swing bridge is being built between Water Row in Govan and Pointhouse Quay in Partick and is due to open next year.
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Been talking a lot about it, but I really am so over the moon to see this.
Resettling back to life (& roads) in Scotland after a few years in 🇳🇱, I really did wonder if everyday cycling would be possible again. Every change like this = more people able to get around by bike.
The first phase of the
@GlasgowCityRgn
work to improve the public realm on Byres Road will soon be complete. One of the final pieces of work will see planting in areas along Byres Road and Church Street.
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Seriously enjoyed this today. A whirl round some of the details and stories sculpted above our heads in Glasgow city centre, led brilliantly by Colin of
@is_glasgow
(with
@newglasgowsoc
). If you get a chance to go on a walk with him: do it!
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...
#SauchiehallStreet
'Avenue', which was looking great today. What used to be 2 lanes of traffic and 2 for parking. Now a bi-directional cycle path, benches, street trees, space for outdoor seating. The first of ~10 similar 'Avenue' projects for streets across the city centre.
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Out and about for
@ICE_engineers
' guided walk of Glasgow's over the Clyde for
@Glasgowdodf
. 🌉
Something I hadn't really considered til now: 𝘸𝘩𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 & even 𝘩𝘰𝘸 each one was made to span the river all has a story to tell about the city and its priorities of the time.
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Was pootling around on my bike at the start of the week and noticed the
#SouthCityWay
is pretty much finished to Merchant City now. Traffic free cycling all the way from Queens Park to Trongate. 🚲
Loads of new cycle parking outside
@Monorail_Music
as a nice bonus too :)
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#SouthCityWay
. Not 100% finished, but you can get 2.5km from Queen’s Park to the city centre, with minimal time on-road (a temporary
#SpacesForPeople
lane plugs the last gap between the Gorbals and city centre for now). Will eventually connect directly to Merchant City.
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Been looking at some old photos of Charing Cross the past few days - does anyone know what this single storey building on the left was? Looks like it says "St George's Market", maybe. Have never come across anything about it before.
Pic from:
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Reimagining another section of
#Glasgow
's urban motorway... This time new blocks & parkland lining a rebuilt New City Rd. Turns out there's still a few hours to sign this petition...
@ReplacetheM8
@newglasgowsoc
@TransformScot
@hoolacambs
@MrScottGalloway
Few hours left to sign this petition!
@peakay81
has done a brilliant job creating a conversation on how Glasgow could
@ReplacetheM8
. Parkland, new streets, housing, public transport hub... a lot of good ideas shared. Now's the time to see what's possible:
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Glasgow Southside folk! Looks like Stage 1 of the city's first
#LiveableNeighbourhoods
plans has been published, with ideas for improvements across Shawlands, Langside, Battlefield, Mount Florida, King's Park, Toryglen & Polmadie:
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With consultations ongoing for extended north & southside cycle networks, I've seen more chat that no one uses existing lanes 🙄
🚲 This counter on the
#SouthCityWay
had counted 473(!) bikes by 8.45am yesterday morning alone.
1,014 by 5.15pm (see pic).
#BuildItAndTheyWillCome
Southward extension of the
#SouthCityWay
to the New Victoria Hospital looking good! Next stop, Battlefield, Mount Florida, Cathcart, etc! 🚲
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Garscube Rd. Just opened, and maybe the best I’ve seen so far. 1.5km segregated path between Firhill & Cowcaddens, part of the
#ConnectingWoodside
project.
Eventually it’ll connect to two other segregated paths on Woodlands Rd & St George’s Rd, which’ll also link it directly to..
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Candleriggs (and lots of other nearby streets) de facto pedestrianised today ahead of the
@GreatScotRun
.
Maybe we just keep it this way? 🤔
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Really promising number of routes planned for Glasgow's cycle network in 2024.
You only have to look to the
#SouthCityWay
in Govanhill (recently connected to the city centre) to see how more high quality, well connected cycle lanes are helping more people to travel by bike.
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Looks like
@GlasgowCC
has launched the initial consultation for Langside/Battlefield/Toryglen 'Liveable Neighbourhoods' area, the first of 24 zones around Glasgow in line for public realm works to create "20-minute neighbourhoods":
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Slightly astonished by how good this looks. Concept plans for cycle lanes along Cowcaddens Rd & streets around
@CaledonianNews
as part of the Avenues project. Pocket park at the Port Dundas St junction & removing the horrible underpass at the bus station 👉
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Interesting news for the southside - the old St Andrew's Works on Pollokshaws Rd is up for sale. It's been a big, conspicuously empty site for as long as I can remember. Wonder what could be done with it.
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Honestly, I love this so much. SCW is such a great example of 'build it and they will come'. Full on Dutch-style junctions, and plenty of safe spots to park your bike if you want to stop at any of the brilliant shops on Victoria Rd.
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@MurphyNiallGLA
klaxon! Walking around I often find myself thinking... Is there truth to the story of 1800s Glasgow City Improvement Trust era architects going on fact finding trips to Paris and Budapest?
Because sometimes the similarities are striking.
#LookUpGlasgow
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Stay with me here...
Guess the date of construction of the Market Hall in Wrocław, Poland
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Few hours left to sign this petition!
@peakay81
has done a brilliant job creating a conversation on how Glasgow could
@ReplacetheM8
. Parkland, new streets, housing, public transport hub... a lot of good ideas shared. Now's the time to see what's possible:
4 days left to sign our petition asking, simply, for a study into new options for the future of the central M8.
Some of those options could include replacing the 1960s structures with repaired city, parks and 21st Century streets.
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To my shame I'd never seen these buildings up close before (Mackintosh's Martyrs School & St Mungo's), until going on a guided walk last year. Such a strange place to walk around. An island of preserved Victorian Glasgow, surrounded by, well...
Just look at it. Look (just a small part of) what this city destroyed for the internal combustion engine.
Townhead in 1952. Right in the centre, the only survivors, St Mungo's and the (Mackintosh) Martyr's School.
#Glasgow
details.
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🚲 Really encouraging thing I saw shared on Facebook a few weeks back: what bike parking there is at
#CelticPark
looks like it's filling up fast on game days.
The brand new
#EastCityWay
cycle route along London Road is already having a really positive impact :)
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🚲👏 Ambitious plans to greatly expand the citywide cycling network in Glasgow over the next few years, with dozens of new routes connecting to existing corridors like the
#SouthCityWay
, Garscube Rd & others - bringing a safe cycle network to thousands more people's doorsteps! 👇
Phase 1 of Glasgow’s City Network (Inner North & South) will deliver around 56.5km of improved active travel routes.
Have your say on the proposals.
Complete the online consultation or fill out a paper copy at a participating library.
Full details 👉
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Spotted the first of these in the wild 👀 two brand new parking pods on Arundel Street
#cycling
#glasgow
Looking somewhere safe to store your bicycle? Good news! Soon there will be 60 new on-street storage cycle shelters from
@cyclehoop
across the city.
Apply for your space today 👉
More on how we’re supporting cycling in the city 👉
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Popped along to the High Street
#GlasgowAvenues
drop-in at lunchtime. Big folder full of changes that are going to improve lives, transport choices and prospects for city centre streets for decades to come. 👍
If you want to support this, make your voice heard! 🌳🚶🏼🚲🏙️
#Glasgow
Please give your thoughts on proposals for new public realm on High Street in Glasgow by taking part in an online consultation.
Find out more 👉
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George Sq will likely grab the attention but Avenue concept plans for streets radiating out from the square also look great too. This'll be such an improvement for a big chunk of the city centre.
Morning 👋! Check out
@GlasgowCC
’s new plan for
#Glasgow
’s George Square 👀👇! Lots of trees and with the statues relocated to the eastern half of the square = the largest reshuffle since the Cenotaph was introduced in 1924 but what a difference from its nadir in 1998…🤔! 1/2
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Heard it said recently, a reason reaction to city improvements is often so negative, is it's harder to hear from people who'll undoubtedly benefit from a project before it exists. Whereas negativity is always mobilised. Bleak to see it amplified like this.
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I say 'finished', but there's still the final stage (Merchant City connection ) to come. Possibly why it's not been opened to a full fanfare yet... but the completed route from Queen's Park to the Clydeside is a gamechanger for getting into the centre.
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I've cycled with people brought to tears by punishment passes, been left shaken myself by selfish, dangerous driving, and all too often - just today even - hear of people who don't return home after a simple journey on their bike. This isn't ok.
Easily triggered? Then transfer your pulsing rage directly onto cyclists
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And down the other end, fingers crossed for the extension south to Mount Florida, Battlefield and Cathcart coming soon 🤞
More space for walking, wheeling & for outdoor seating. Turning the
@BattlefieldRest
traffic island into a plaza. 🚴♀️ Safe cycleways connecting to the
#SouthCityWay
.
If you live in the Southside and want to see this, make your voice heard!
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In some ways we got off lightly.
In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They held up banners for all to see on a flyover as Mr Campbell’s car passed beneath.
📷 Newqsquest
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Nice afternoon walk/tour led by
@newglasgowsoc
, taking in some well known 'buildings at risk' across the city ahead of their upcoming
@Glasgowdodf
exhibition in September.
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The amount of space taken by the interchanges at Anderston, St George's Cross and Townhead in particular, is extraordinary. 9/
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Signs up on Battlefield Rd about plans to redesign the Langside Monument junction, as part of Liveable Neighborhoods plans.
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This is great news. Looks like
@reglasgow_web
is back online with the team exploring crowdfunding options to keep it viable into the longer term. I'll gladly donate as it's been such a good resource these past few years!
@PastGlasgow
@newglasgowsoc
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Southward extension of the
#SouthCityWay
to the New Victoria Hospital looking good! Next stop, Battlefield, Mount Florida, Cathcart, etc! 🚲
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Fantastic plans for a real network of cycle routes to connect areas across East Ren and into the south side of Glasgow. Really worth checking out the plans and responding if you cycle in/through this area (or would like to cycle more) 👇
We'd like to hear your thoughts on five projects to improve active travel in Giffnock, Netherlee, Clarkston, and Newton Mearns.
The plans call for a connected network of active travel routes across the area.
Have your say before Sunday 31 March at:
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👀 This is so good to see! New cycle route (& many other related public realm improvements) up 1st half of Byres Road looking nearly finished.
With the new Govan bridge opening soon, we won't be far from having an orbital route connecting neighbourhoods from Govan to Maryhill.
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Cycled from southside to eastend & back tonight on a route that's brand new cycle infra most of the way. A simple 20min journey I wouldn't have dreamed of doing by bike 5+ yrs ago.
As the gaps get filled, this network is going to make such a difference for people across Glasgow.
The final delivery plan for the City Network sets out how we'll look to add almost 270km of safer, segregated active routes for walking, wheeling & cycling to 300km of existing routes. Five phases of design & construction are anticipated by 2030 🚲
More👉
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#ArchitectureDay
I've got four or five favourites, but this is an overlooked gem on Buchanan Street. An over the top Battenberg cake of a building. Red and blonde sandstone together, and a big old
@GlasgowCoA
at the top of the Dutch gable.
🟢 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕬𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝕯𝖆𝖞 🟢
Which building is your favourite in the city of Glasgow? Share with us via photos, sketches, plans, sections, or whatever format that suits. We want to hear your stories 😎
#glasgowcity
#happyarchitectureday
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Just spotted there that planning proposals are in for the major redevelopment of the
#StEnochCentre
that was announced recently. (Pics from: )
The proposals would see the shopping centre redeveloped over the next 15 to 20 years.
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Really niche
#Southside
heritage tweet: A tiny little flourish I've never picked up on before now (paging
@MurphyNiallGLA
&
@SGHETorg
)... railings all around edge of Queen's Park look like they're capped with a Fleur-de-Lis. Is this a nod to Mary Queen of Scots?
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Last one to complete the set. Glasgow's
#M8Reimagined
: Townhead Interchange.
🌳 Boulevardised route to Springburn
✂️ Sliproads trimmed away
🏢 Return to urban density
🚣🏻♂️ Monkland Canal uncovered & turned into an urban park
Since there's been a bit more discussion of the motorway this week 👀 here's another section of the
#M8Reimagined
.
The Monkland Canal, uncovered and used as a green public space and anchor for redevelopment around the northern edge of
#Glasgow
city centre.
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Southside feeder ride on our way to Kelvingrove! 100s of bikes heading up the SCW 🚴🚲
#ClimateAction
@POPScotland
@GoBikeGlasgow
#Glasgow
#COP26
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And we're off 🚴🚴🏽♀️ amazing turnout for the
#PedalOnCOP26
block in the climate march.
@POPScotland
@GoBikeGlasgow
@BikeforGoodGla
@CyclingScotland
@CTCGlasgow
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Found this a hugely uplifting episode (of a great podcast). Love what
@JohnBauters
says about focusing on positive messaging & framing, not to avoid the bad stuff, but because 99% of time it leads to a positive reaction right back & creates allies for what he's trying to achieve.
New episode up! We rode the bike lanes of Emeryville, California, with the city's mayor, John Bauters. He told us what elected officials really need to build an active transportation network: "I think political will is probably the biggest barrier."
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If this can be done in Paris, it can be done anywhere.
Paris mayor announces that the city’s ring highway will transform a car lane to bus/carpool/taxi use in 2024. Highway will get 50,000 trees to reduce its air pollution effects. And 2030 plan is to eliminate a car lane in both directions.
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@GeorgeMonbiot
That one's by Sam Bates / "Smug". You can see loads of the city's other murals and an interview with him here>
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A ↗️33% increase in the city centre population since 2011 is fantastic news.
If there's anything close to a magic bullet for supporting a healthier city centre in the long term, it's getting more people living there. Especially impactful in Glasgow which has long lagged behind.
🏙️ Glasgow City Centre Population Grows by a Third! With 28,341 residents now calling the heart of the city home, Glasgow is steadily achieving its ambitious target of 40,000 residents by 2035.
📍 Glasgow City Council
👇 Learn more
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Loads of really good stuff in the new Yoker-Whiteinch
#LiveableNeighbourhoods
programme, inc. repairing expressway severance at Victoria Park, plenty of continuous footways, cycle lanes for Anniesland Rd (all presented in a great way by
@_newpractice
).
👉
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A real head of steam developing around everyday cycling in
#Dundee
at the mo :)
6 'active freeway' routes planned ()📍, coastal route to Broughty Ferry & Monifieth under construction 🏗️, and loads of new on-street bike hangars rolled out 🚲
"It’s so much more convenient and it’s given me the freedom to use my bike to get around more often." - Nick, resident of Blackness, Dundee.
Find out how new secure, on-street cycle storage is helping make cycling easier for people across Dundee. 🏡🚴
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Since there's been a bit more discussion of the motorway this week 👀 here's another section of the
#M8Reimagined
.
The Monkland Canal, uncovered and used as a green public space and anchor for redevelopment around the northern edge of
#Glasgow
city centre.
Reimagining another section of
#Glasgow
's urban motorway... This time new blocks & parkland lining a rebuilt New City Rd. Turns out there's still a few hours to sign this petition...
@ReplacetheM8
@newglasgowsoc
@TransformScot
@hoolacambs
@MrScottGalloway
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In fact while we're at it... here's another nice spot from
@riderglasgow
: What looks to be a new two-way cycle path at the new Barclays campus at Tradeston, running parallel to the river. Probably connecting up with the
#SouthWestCityWay
?
Couldn't resist a snap of how it was looking at the Barclays campus at Tradeston this morning. Hopefully not too long before the fences come down and we can enjoy it!
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It's not 100% perfect (those side streets around 25-50 secs in routinely give me the fear) but this route connecting the densest neighborhood in Glasgow to the city centre is a glimpse at what it could soon be like travelling across the whole city. 🚲
#southcityway
The
#SouthCityWay
in Glasgow is a great example of the network of separated, protected cycle lanes we need to develop all across Scotland.
This kind of infrastructure helps people on bikes travel safely, confidently and often beat the traffic!
#CycleToWork
#TravelByBike
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Sun was out for our stop at the polling station in Glasgow this morning. Apparently 160,000 Poles in the UK casting their votes today (acc to
@JakubKrupa
)
#Wybory2023
A queue for the polling station in Sikorski club in Glasgow.
I voted there many times when I lived in Scotland, never saw a queue that would end up further than just few steps from the doors...
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Point being - because sometimes it's worth saying these things explicitly - the biggest barrier to more people cycling is road safety. Once you remove or reduce that by providing safe routes that take people where they need to go, you get this. Even in the rain.
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Some more recent shots of the
#ConnectingWoodside
route at Garscube Road from
@RiderGlasgow
(who's well worth a follow for near daily photos, insights & curiosities from across the city)
What a difference on Garscube Road! Down from four motor traffic lanes to two, with a nice wide bike (and skateboard) path.
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Thanks to the guys at
@BikeforGoodGla
for bringing this back to life 👍 feels like a brand new bike. 🔧🚲
#thismachinefightsclimatechange
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Amazing news. Overview map for the new "
#ClydeMetro
" network plan (new name for the "
#Glasgow
Metro"?🚇) as officially recommended in today's
#STPR2
. Today's announcement is a massive step towards many ideas talked about for decades now happening.
Source:
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Some pics of Glasgow city centre set up for filming of
#IndianaJones5
this week. Stand in for New York 1969ish maybe?
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@RiderGlasgow
The
#SouthWestCityWay
runs from Tradeston to Pollokshields, passing West Street subway. It's quite well done for the most part, but short, ending abruptly at the top of Pollokshields. Heard there are plans to extend it further SW though. (No photos, so nabbing them from Google!)
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The only thing I can think while listening to this
#bbcqt
audience: This is not a country I want to live in any more.
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Sometimes you get so used to things, you never think to question them.
It's only seeing how other people across the world have explored what might've once seemed like fantasy, that you can think "maybe it doesn't have to just be this way?". 6/
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Nipped along to
@newglasgowsoc
to see
#theknightmap
panorama of Glasgow up close before the exhibition closes tomorrow.
Brilliant work by Will Knight & idea from
@GlasgowHeritage
. Well worth popping your head in if you're in the West End / Finnieston this weekend!
The sun is out! ☀️ If you’re making the most of it and having a wander today why not call in to our
#theknightmap
exhibition?
Whilst there you can add your thoughts and ideas to our interactive whiteboard!
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The M8 motorway, its societal, economic and health impacts on Glasgow, and ideas to mitigate them were obviously central. But
@MurphyNiallGLA
's call for every Glaswegian to be an engaged"citizen urbanist" really is the crux, on this and so many issues!
@newglasgowsoc
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More space for walking, wheeling & for outdoor seating. Turning the
@BattlefieldRest
traffic island into a plaza. 🚴♀️ Safe cycleways connecting to the
#SouthCityWay
.
If you live in the Southside and want to see this, make your voice heard!
A redesign of Battlefield Rd will make it safer for pedestrians & cyclists, create more civic space & support public transport improvements. The design is part of the overall Connecting Battlefield plans.
Read the plans and have your say by Aug 14 👉
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@mapduliand
Barely a week goes by I don't think of this FT comment. Especially 2nd point.
All this loss. All this self inflicted harm. And for what.
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By the by, pretty much on the other side of the block from this, running parallel, there's meant to be a redevelopment of Windmillcroft Quay coming soon, with suggestions it'll have a segregated cycle path:
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Shawlands Arcade is a weird one. Brutalist design, cut off from the edge of the street, bang in the middle of blocks of 130yr old tenements.
Turns out it was all to fit a road that never even happened.
Gone was the Art Deco Embassy Cinema, seen here gearing up for its grand opening in 1936, and the elegant Darnley Terrace, seen here around 1910, where architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson once lived.
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Fun fact, that double-deck highway visible in the photo is now gone, and the city has been reconnected to its waterfront!
The space once occupied by the freeway, is now a series of parks and pedestrian plazas, as well a several new streetcar lines!
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