Cycle Routes Ideas

Here is presented a selection of suggestions for future cycle routes. Comments on these routes are always welcome. If you would like to provide feedback on any of these routes then please email your comments.

Glasgow East - Coatbridge

• Baillieston - Coatbridge
• Cranhill - Coatbridge
• Cranhill - Drumpellier Country Park - Coatbridge

These three routes should not be considered as different options for one final route. Instead they can all be developed together, with each route serving a different market. The first is intended as a 24-hour route, usable night and day, whilst the others are aimed more at the leisure market. Each route makes better use of existing infrastructure, with only a limited amount of new build. The second two have substantial common sections, and can be developed together.

Coatbridge - Strathclyde Park

• Coatbridge - Bellshill - Strathclyde Country Park

This route provides a direct link between Coatbridge and Strathclyde Park, via Bellshill. There are already plans for a link between the Sustrans cycle route at Uddingston and Strathclyde Park, but this is a rather long way round to get from Coatbridge to the park. Similarly it is possible to go from Coatbridge along the Monkland Canal to Calderbank, then through Eurocentral and Holytown, but again going via Bellshill is more direct. The route makes extensive use of existing minor side streets, many of which already have "Twenty's Plenty" advisory speed limits, and some existing paths through parks. The major issue here is how to get through Shawhead Junction, where the A725, B7070 and A8 meet up, creating a hellish roadscape for the would-be law-abiding cyclist.

There are no doubt many other potential future cycle routes in the Glasgow area. If you would like to suggest any routes please email your comments.