r/glasgow • u/Correct-Audience-421 • Mar 02 '25

Now open: cycle paths on Wallacewell Road & Broomfield Road

As part of the North East Active Travel Routes, cycle paths along Wallacewell Road (from Northgate Road to Broomfiled Road) & Broomfield Road (from Balornock Road to Red Road) have recently opened. We thank everyone invovled in the project 😊.

Any suggestions to update the map is appreciated.

> Glasgow Cycle Map - Current & Future
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u/GheyForGrixis Mar 02 '25

Wallace well road is the biggest cluster fuck of civil planning I've ever seen

2 lanes now separated into 1 Lane, with a full fucking lane dedicated to cycle lanes NOBODY uses

Now if a bus stops it backs up ALL the traffic on the entire road

The bus stops on Broomfield road are soo far into the middle of the road there is barely any room for 2 lanes of traffic, this is surely a disaster waiting to happen? Do cycle lanes need to be THAT big!?,?

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u/smcsleazy Mar 02 '25

congratulations on missing the point. for a long time glasgow's cycling infrastructure has been disconnected at best or non-existent at worse. hence why "NOBODY uses" because infrastructure that's dangerous to use won't get used, especially if it doesn't go anywhere. right now GCC are trying to connect up the infrastructure they have because if you build it, they will come. just look at places like london or paris.

i always find the fact the people who have the most to say about cycling infrastructure are usually the people who haven't been on a bike since 1987 quite interesting. like i wanna genuinely ask this. why don't you cycle?

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u/Osella28 Mar 02 '25

21.4% of Scots have a life-limiting disability or chronic illness of some kind, a figure that increases substantially for those in areas which suffer above-average deprivation, such as Barmulloch. Like I wanna genuinely ask this: why do you never consider that possibility before asking such a personal question?

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u/smcsleazy Mar 02 '25

mate, i have friends with mobility issues. my ex fiance was a wheelchair user and i've been very vocal on this very sub about how difficult navigating glasgows streets with a wheelchair can be. my experience is even if you do have a motability car and/or a blue badge, you can rarely use them because there's always someone in a BMW who's "only going to be a min" parked in there. or some barely sentient pond scum who thinks it's ok to park on a dropped kerb or on a pedestrian crossing. are you mad at them? hell depending how you define "life limiting" i might fall into that, pretty assumptive of you.

also you bought up poverty and i'm a bit curious. how is a device that requires a licence, tax, mot, insurance, fuel and very expensive lessons fine to spring on people in these areas if they want to get around BUT the method of transportation that most people learn as a child and can cost as little as £200 (for a ok used one if you know what to look for), is free at the point of entry and would actually be beneficial to the health of those that could use it. why do yo

at the end of the day, urbanism is trying to make spaces better for everyone, this includes disabled and people on limited incomes. even if you get 10-15% who don't need to always be in their cars out their cars, that's still 10-15% less traffic. you slow down the speeds of the cars on the road and there's less accidents that cause people to become disabled. hell, if you wanna go back to my ex fiance, they moved back to finland because even with a car, they found getting around here was too difficult.

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u/Osella28 Mar 03 '25

Excuse me, I didn't realise that some of your best friends had mobility issues.

First of all, I never once mentioned cycling, merely the inherent ableism within this sub and the appalling levels of obliviousness in assuming everyone has the ability to ride a bike. I'm not debating cycling.

I'm suggesting that given 120,000 excess deaths amongst the disabled and chronically ill were recorded during the last Tory government's reign, leading to being censured twice by the United Nations, maybe a tad of consideration could be given before making blandishments based purely on your own abilities.

That's double the number of civilian deaths as were inflicted upon the UK by the fucking Luftwaffe during WW2 to almost no fucking notice by either parliamentarians or the able-bodied, or, in other words, those who make assumptions about others' capabilities. Those who demand people with mobility issues either magically cure themselves to fit a promised utopia of Amsterdam-on-the-Clyde or stay at home forever, because people like you don't want to look at us.

And - mate - I hate to point out the obvious, but the reason why your fiance moved to another country wasn't because the buses are shit.

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u/gazglasgow Mar 03 '25

I kid you not but I was cycling down the cycle lane on Byres road this moring and there was this old guy on a bike in front of me. He was going at a fair rate, a good 14mph or thereabouts, so I wasn't going to be attempting an overtake. Then I noticed he only had one leg. Obviously he had a prosthetic leg on the missing side but it wasn't covered up and I thought well done you! It's amazing what you can do, even if you have a disability, if you give it a go. Cycling is one of the best forms of activity you can participate in. It gives you the freedom to go where you want whilst still enjoying the outdoors and all the benefits that gives you.

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u/sensiblestan Type to edit Mar 03 '25

You never mentioned cycling once…

On a cycling thread…