To mark Glasgow Climate Week 2025, the City Council is spotlighting the expanding network of projects across the city designed to encourage walking, wheeling, and cycling – all vital in mitigating climate change by reducing Glasgow's carbon footprint.

Work on a comprehensive City Network of active travel routes is advancing, with the city aiming to add 270km of safe, segregated cycle ways to its existing infrastructure. Several phases of construction are now complete.

Recently Completed and Advanced Projects:

The final phase of the South City Way, linking Queens Park with the city centre, was completed in 2024. The first leg of Connecting Battlefield, which integrates with the South City Way and serves the New Victoria Hospital, is also finished, featuring fully segregated cycle lanes, widened footways, and improved street lighting.

As part of the Connecting Woodside active travel project, work to create a people-friendly junction at Charing Cross and link the cycle lane on Sauchiehall Street with St George's Road was also delivered last year. Construction on this project's next stage – a new active travel corridor on St George's Road connecting Sauchiehall Street at Charing Cross with Garscube Road in north Glasgow – began in March 2025. This phase includes enhanced pedestrian crossings, improved footways, greening, drainage improvements, and upgraded streetlighting.

The North-East Active Travel Route (NEATR), incorporating cycle ways, bus infrastructure upgrades, and footway improvements in Barmulloch and Balornock, is now substantially finished, with remaining first phase work due for completion later in 2025.

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In the city centre, the City Deal-funded Holland Street Avenue is nearing completion, with traffic signal equipment upgrades expected shortly. The Cambridge Street Avenue is now substantially complete, with segregated cycling infrastructure in place and final works to be finished this spring. Construction of the Argyle Street West Avenue, between the Kingston Bridge and Union Street, is also well underway and anticipated to be completed by the end of 2025, delivering segregated cycling infrastructure, upgraded footways, and raingardens.

The City Deal-backed infrastructure programme for Byres Road (between Partick Cross and University Avenue) has, in its first phase, delivered upgraded and more accessible footways alongside protected cycling infrastructure, with remaining works due for completion imminently.

Redesign work on the George V Bridge and its north and south junctions is well advanced and scheduled for completion in June 2025. This key redevelopment will introduce new pedestrian crossings and segregated cycle facilities, with the Broomielaw junction being upgraded to a full cycle-friendly junction featuring separate timing for cycle users.

Upcoming and Future Developments:

Looking ahead in 2025, construction is set to begin on the first phase of Connecting Yorkhill and Kelvingrove, which will deliver improved public space on Radnor Street, Haugh Road, Yorkhill Street, and Sandyford Street. The second stage of the Byres Road redevelopment is also due to break ground later this year. The Spaces for People route on Dumbreck Road, connecting Pollok Park with Bellahouston Park, will be upgraded, and the route extended to link with the South West City Way existing active travel infrastructure on St Andrew's Drive.

Work to create new infrastructure in the Blackhill and Provanhill areas as part of the Flourishing Molendinar project is due to commence in the coming months. Additionally, several Avenues and Avenues Plus schemes, delivering high-quality walking and cycling links in and around the city centre, have either begun construction this year or are due to start soon.

Significant design work will also be progressed in 2025 for future projects, including further phases of Connecting Battlefield, the East City Way, and Connecting Yorkhill and Kelvingrove. Route designs are also developed or in development for Connecting Greater Govan, Inner North and South, the West Nile Street Active Travel Route, and the NCN7 cycle network linking Smith Street in Whiteinch with the Riverside Museum, with hopes to move these to construction in the near future.

The council emphasises that all these projects, which rebalance road space, contribute to making more city locations accessible via safer, segregated infrastructure. This supports the overarching aim that active and sustainable travel options become an attractive and viable choice for everyday journeys.

Complementary measures are also in place, including the significant expansion of Glasgow's on-street cycle storage scheme, more people-friendly crossings and junctions, and the addition of specialised vehicles to the city's fleet for more effective, year-round maintenance of active travel routes.