It seems sending letters/emails to Glasgow City Council actually works. They instructed the contractor to fix the brand-new cycle-path on London Rd with the old, broken, road-surface. The end-result however is still a cycle-path with mostly an old & broken road-surface…
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Glasgow city cycling infrastructure, only for mountain bikers?
Glasgow City Council plan over the next few years to build new segregated cycling paths across the city. This is amazingly welcome news, of course. Work is already underway on a segregated path from Saltmarket, down London Rd towards the East End (to the under-construction velodrom perhaps?). Unfortunately, whether through lack of cash or lack of co-ordination and/or sheer institutional inexperience with building cycling infrastructure, the infrastructure that exists often comes with design and maintenance faults. At least, faults that would be immediately obvious to any regular cyclist. Unfortunately, the new segregated paths, though not yet finished, seem to suffer the same problem of some other such existing cycle paths in Glasgow: You need a mountain bike to use them!
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