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Glasgow City Council Officer
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2023-11-30
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sustainable
Proposal code:
GlasgowCommunityChoices-2023-11-17
Glasgow City Council will have ongoing and targeted communication and promotional campaigns to continue to encourage everyone to consider using sustainable transport modes for their everyday journeys.
Glasgow City Council will have ongoing and targeted communication and promotional campaigns to continue to encourage everyone to consider using sustainable transport modes for their everyday journeys.
In order to reduce car kms people need suitable alternatives. The cycle lanes in Glasgow are often discontinuous and mostly not well segregated. Space taken up by parked cars needs to be replaced by clear, segregated cycle lanes to and from key destinations. For example there is a cycle lane along part of Cumbernauld road which stops at at the M8 Motorway junction. It should obviously continue on Cumbernauld Road towards the Secondary School just past the junction, and on to the residential area in Riddrie and the primary school further along. The city centre is extremely unwelcoming for cyclists too. If you want to encourage people to cycle to work, there needs to be safe cycle routes entering the city centre along main roads. As another commenter said, money could be raised from parking to fund sustainable travel initiatives. The sustainable travel hierarchy places walking and wheeling first, therefore, this should be at the forefront of design planning.
Raising awareness of vulnerable road users amongst people who drive should be a key priority to improve road user behaviour, reduce casualties and reduce the perceptions of road danger that remain a key barrier to more people taking up cycling. Cycling Scotland’s Practical Cycle Awareness Training provides 7 hours of training for drivers which counts toward the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (required by heavy goods vehicle and bus/coach drivers). Cycling Scotland receives funding from Transport Scotland to support public and private sector fleets to undertake this training, which allows drivers to step into the shoes of more vulnerable road users to provide them with a greater understanding of safety on our roads, especially around people cycling. Glasgow should prioritise this type of initiative to improve safety for vulnerable road users and fulfil the actions stated in its road safety plan to address the risks posed by large vehicles and work-related journeys.
Raising awareness should not be a key priority and I'm surprised to see Cycling Scotland arguing this. No amount of awareness can counteract bad infrastructure which prioritises cars, and gigantic cars that are a huge threat to cyclists and pedestrians when accidents happen. We *CAN* make a huge difference to serious injury and death on roads, but it will take bold physical changes. Do you have data that awareness training reduces serious injury and deaths caused by motor vehicles?
Surely awareness raising and improving the standard of training for drivers is still important - it does not have to be either Awareness Raising OR Physical Changes - why not both?
You can't force people to choose how they wish to travel. For many people the car is the best option and you can see why given the practicality of what you can use your car to do and then factor in also the inclement weather 9 months of the year and the fact that this is a free country.
I'm 68, I cycle almost every day as my primary mode of transport andthe least of my worries is the weather. My biggest worry is drivers of vehicles. There are are the relatively "innocent" inattentive drivers and then there are those actively aggressive and antagonistic against cyclists. I hate it that car drivers are so free to threaten my life every day.
In order to reduce car kms people need suitable alternatives. The cycle lanes in Glasgow are often discontinuous and mostly not well segregated. Space taken up by parked cars needs to be replaced by clear, segregated cycle lanes to and from key destinations. For example there is a cycle lane along part of Cumbernauld road which stops at at the M8 Motorway junction. It should obviously continue on Cumbernauld Road towards the Secondary School just past the junction, and on to the residential area in Riddrie and the primary school further along. The city centre is extremely unwelcoming for cyclists too. If you want to encourage people to cycle to work, there needs to be safe cycle routes entering the city centre along main roads. As another commenter said, money could be raised from parking to fund sustainable travel initiatives. The sustainable travel hierarchy places walking and wheeling first, therefore, this should be at the forefront of design planning.
Raising awareness of vulnerable road users amongst people who drive should be a key priority to improve road user behaviour, reduce casualties and reduce the perceptions of road danger that remain a key barrier to more people taking up cycling. Cycling Scotland’s Practical Cycle Awareness Training provides 7 hours of training for drivers which counts toward the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (required by heavy goods vehicle and bus/coach drivers). Cycling Scotland receives funding from Transport Scotland to support public and private sector fleets to undertake this training, which allows drivers to step into the shoes of more vulnerable road users to provide them with a greater understanding of safety on our roads, especially around people cycling. Glasgow should prioritise this type of initiative to improve safety for vulnerable road users and fulfil the actions stated in its road safety plan to address the risks posed by large vehicles and work-related journeys.
Raising awareness should not be a key priority and I'm surprised to see Cycling Scotland arguing this. No amount of awareness can counteract bad infrastructure which prioritises cars, and gigantic cars that are a huge threat to cyclists and pedestrians when accidents happen. We *CAN* make a huge difference to serious injury and death on roads, but it will take bold physical changes. Do you have data that awareness training reduces serious injury and deaths caused by motor vehicles?
Surely awareness raising and improving the standard of training for drivers is still important - it does not have to be either Awareness Raising OR Physical Changes - why not both?
You can't force people to choose how they wish to travel. For many people the car is the best option and you can see why given the practicality of what you can use your car to do and then factor in also the inclement weather 9 months of the year and the fact that this is a free country.
I'm 68, I cycle almost every day as my primary mode of transport andthe least of my worries is the weather. My biggest worry is drivers of vehicles. There are are the relatively "innocent" inattentive drivers and then there are those actively aggressive and antagonistic against cyclists. I hate it that car drivers are so free to threaten my life every day.
People cycle year round in Finland, we have literally no excuse (save poor infrastructure).