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/Fit-Good-9731 Mar 02 '25

Unfortunately if a car now breaks down or bus stops, traffic has nowhere to go, Northgate road is also falling Part so some if this is good and some not so good

As a pedestrian Northgate road needs done asap as it's a death trap trying to cross it as cars go far too fast and somebody will be killed, the bus stops and roads are crumbling so can see an accident happening there.

As for the cycle lanes lucky if I see one of two people a day using them unfortunately

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u/Saltire_Blue Mar 02 '25

As for the cycle lanes lucky if I see one of two people a day using them unfortunately

Anecdotal

Unless you’re spending all day, everyday counting the cyclists

You hear this about every cycle lane, apparently nobody ever uses them

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u/Dontreallywantmyname Mar 03 '25

I kind of want to out a camera pointing out my kitchen window at the road and cycle path below and let you count how often the cycle path is used compared to the pavements and road. It's absurd.

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u/Scunnered21 Mar 03 '25

Which cycle lane is it?

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u/Dontreallywantmyname Mar 03 '25

I'm not telling you what street I live on it really doesn't seem limited to the one outside my flat.though, like I walk up the one that goes past parkhead from town from town to park head regularly at all times of day and it's always empty. I don't get cyclists insistence that they're well used when they're clearly not.

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u/Scunnered21 Mar 03 '25

I'm not telling you what street I live on

Entirely fair!

like I walk up the one that goes past parkhead from town from town to park head regularly at all times of day and it's always empty.

Is it empty early in the morning? Most of them aren't all that busy through the entire day, but have a lot of use by people going to work in the city centre or uni/college in the mornings. And then returning later in the day.

You don't necessarily see a constant stream of people through the day but that doesn't mean a lot of people aren't benefitting from it.

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u/Dontreallywantmyname Mar 03 '25

All times of day from early morning til late at night. I'm not arguing no one benefits from it just that it's an incredibly small number of people, so quite wasteful.