WHEEL-COME!Welcome to Issue 5 of the We Go Pedal News! It’s been a wee while since our last newsletter and we have been busy working away to make Whiteinch and other local neighbourhoods more cycle friendly!

We hope you enjoy this latest newsletter, which is jam packed with lots of news and information about cycling and active travel and hopefully will encourage you to get out on two wheels in the local area and beyond. And if you want to get involved with the Cycle Friendly project please get in touch!

The West Glasgow Pedallers (We Go Pedal) project has been funded by Cycling Scotland’s Cycle Friendly Communities Award development grant to help local communities become Cycle Friendly. Our initial focus is on Whiteinch but we will be working in other neighbourhoods too!

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ST PAUL’S CYCLE FRIENDLYPRIMARY SCHOOL AWARDSt Paul’s Primary School in Whiteinch recently achieved the nationally recognised Cycle Friendly Primary School Award by demonstrating a clear commitment to increasing cycling in the school for pupils, teachers and parents. St Paul’s is the eighth primary school in Glasgow to have achieved the award and they join over 300 Cycle Friendly primaries throughout the country.

The school was assessed against a range of criteria – the school has a cycling champion, an up to date active travel plan, delivers Bikeability Scotland’s Level 2 on road training to the pupils, pupils undertake regular litter picks on the local cycle network, the school has a great cycle shelter too and they are part of the Cycle Friendly Whiteinch project! All clearly demonstrating that they fully deserved this Award.

www.cyclingscotland.org/our-projects/award-schemes

GLASGOW WOOD RECYCLING WORKING TOWARDS CYCLE FRIENDLY EMPLOYER AWARDGlasgow Wood Recycling, who are a social enterprise based in South Street in Whiteinch, have been successful in securing funding through the Cycle Friendly Employer development fund. The award will allow GWR to work towards achieving the nationally recognised Cycle Friendly Employer Award by installing a covered bike shelter, developing a pool bike, providing staff with basic tools and additional training. The fund seeks to support projects which improve facilities and promote cycling, encouraging staff to travel by bicycle.

www.cyclingscotland.org/our-projects/award-schemes

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West Glasgow PedallersWe Go Pedal Project is a partnership

between De’ils On Wheels bike workshop, LINKES Bike Club and the

Whiteinch Bike Club

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GO BIKE WARD TOURS Following the local council elections in May GoBike sent a letter to all 84 of the newly elected Glasgow Councillors offering them a tour of the city or their ward, by bike or by foot in order “to encourage Councillors to be aware to the needs of cycling and cyclists in Glasgow as they carry out their council duties.” To date 21 Councillors have responded and tours have been completed in 7 of the 23 wards in the city including Ward 12 Victoria Park. This Ward includes Whiteinch and there was lots of interesting cycle infrastructure in the area - good, bad and missing! GoBike is the organisation for promoting cycling and good cycle infrastructure in the Glasgow area.

www.gobike.org

ACTIVE TRAVEL IN GLASGOWGlasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) has produced a report - Active travel in Glasgow: what we’ve learned so far - which brings together GCPH learning on transport and health, with a specific focus on active travel.

Since 2004 GCPH has sought to generate insights and evidence, support new approaches, and inform and influence action to improve health and tackle inequality.

www.gcph.co.uk

CYCLE AWARENESS TRAINING FOR LEARNER DRIVERSCycling Scotland has developed a free 3.5 hour Cycle Awareness course catering for learner drivers. Designed to help learner drivers be safer on our roads, the training is the perfect opportunity to step into the shoes of more vulnerable road users –

including those on bikes, on foot and those with disabilities – and provide participants with a greater understanding of their needs.

www.cyclinghub.scot/course/PCATLearner

WALK CYCLE VOTE ACTIVE TRAVEL BUDGET THANK YOU!

In October Walk Cycle Vote supporters gathered in Glasgow to thank Transport Minister, Humza Yousaf, for the doubling of the active travel budget to £80m per year.

There was a celebratory ringing of bike bells and the Minister was thanked with a slice of “rocky road” cake. Although this is by no means the end of the campaigning journey, the budget increase marked an important milestone on the road to an active Scotland and one worth celebrating.

walkcyclevote.scot

WEST GLASGOWSCHOOL RUN SUMMIT Dumbarton Road Corridor Environment Trust (DRCET) and De’ils On Wheels are hosting a School Run Summit for schools in G11 to G15 postcode areas. The Summit is aimed at pupils, teachers, parents, parent councils, local residents, community councils, Council officers and elected members and will look at the wider community to see if this provides opportunities for alternative solutions to the school run issue. The Summit will take place on Tuesday 14 November at Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre.

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DUTCH REACH TO SAVE LIVESThe Dutch Reach is a technique taught to drivers to make it easier to see cyclists. Drivers and passengers each use their far hand to open their door, which forces them to turn their torso. That makes it more likely they will look over their shoulder to check for oncoming cyclists who could get doored. Dooring is a traffic collision in which a cyclist is struck by a car door. The Dutch reach is a simple but very effective technique to avoid dooring and save lives.

www.dutchreach.org

AIR POLLUTION LOWEMISSION ZONE

The Scottish Government recently announced that it will work in partnership with Glasgow City Council to develop a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in the city – the first in Scotland. The proposals will improve air quality in

the city centre and the aim is to have the LEZ in place by the end of 2018. Eliminating air pollution hotspots will result in improved health, and will ensure Glasgow continues to be one of the most attractive places to live, work and visit.

news.gov.scot/news/first-low-emission-zone-for-glasgow

NEXTBIKE GLASGOW RE-LAUNCH AND EXPANSIONScotland’s largest bike share scheme has re-launched with 500 brand new nextbike SmartBikes and 10 new hire stations. And over the coming months nextbike Glasgow will also increase the number of bikes to 1,000, and add around 10 new stations per year.

www.nextbike.co.uk/en/glasgow

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New York Bicycling Coalitionwww.nybc.net

PLAY ON PEDALSINSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOSPlay on Pedals in partnership with Cycling Scotland has created a series of instructional videos for getting young children cycling. The videos guide you through balancing, gliding, control, pedalling and developing cycling skills, offering fun games and top tips to help get your children moving. You can watch the series over at Cycling Scotland’s Youtube channel youtu.be/n0s8E1eUwyc

Check out the website for the latest news on Play on Pedals sessions across Glasgow.

playonpedals.scot

OPERATION CLOSE PASSOperation Close Pass sees plain clothed police take to the streets to highlight the space cyclists need for everyone to use our roads safely. Drivers who pass an unmarked police cyclist too closely are pulled over and given advice using a specially designed mat which shows how much space a person on a bicycle needs when overtaking them. It is hoped that the scheme will be rolled out across Scotland.

www.scotland.police.uk

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OLYMPIC STANDARD BMX TRACK COMING TO KNIGHTSWOOD

Glasgow City Council has approved plans for the first world and Olympic standard BMX track in Scotland, which will be located in Knightswood Park. Boasting an eight-metre start hill the BMX track will be used during the European Championships to be held in the city next year. This exciting new track will be the home of the Glasgow Western Titans BMX Club once the Championships are over providing a lasting legacy for the sport of BMX in Scotland. The Council have also undertaken consultations on improving the cycle routes from Knightswood Park to the National Cycle Network along the Forth & Clyde canal and along NCN route 7 to the south.

www.glasgow2018.com/venues/venue-map/knightswood-parkwww.facebook.com/GlasgowTitansBMX

SOUTH CITY WAY AND WOODLANDS MINI-HOLLAND PROJECT

Glasgow City Council has won funding from Sustrans Scotland’s Community Links PLUS competition for two significant infrastructure projects.

The South City Way will see a two-mile Copenhagen-style segregated bike lane between Queen’s Park and the Merchant City. Go Bike is supporting a new group being set up - Friends of South City Way - to support the new route and the group aims to minimise misinformation and increase local support.

The Woodlands “Mini Holland” creates a Dutch-style cycle-friendly design of streets and public spaces. The design creates better streets and places for people, promoting increased uptake of walking and cycling and is associated with greater use of local businesses.

www.glasgow.gov.uk/index aspx?articleid=19365

www.sustrans.org.uk/community-links-plus

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EUROPEAN CYCLE CHALLENGE 2017The European Cycling Challenge is the biggest urban cyclists’ team competition, which takes place every May. This is the second year that Glasgow has entered the competition and over 650 cyclists signed up as part of the Glasgow City Region team, which covered 8 local authorities. Glasgow finished a respectable 18th out of 52 European cities. The data collected throughout the month creates heat maps which can be used to identify popular cycling routes and locations. In the local area the NCN7 through Whiteinch and the Clyde Tunnel are busy areas for cycling!

cyclingchallenge.eu/

WE GO PEDAL You can keep up to date with the progress of the We Go Pedal project by visiting the Dumbarton Road Corridor Environment Trust blog and clicking on the We Go Pedal logo or clicking on the We Go Pedal tag on any blog entry.

You can download Issues 1, 2, 3 and 4 from our website and we still have hardcopies left so please get in touch if you would like copies. You can contact us on 0141 433 0427 or getinvolved@dumbartonroad.com

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ROAD SAFETY WEEK 2017

Road Safety Week is the UK’s biggest road safety event, coordinated annually by Brake, the road safety charity. This year the week will run from Monday 20 to Sunday 26 November 2017 and the theme will be Speed Down Save Lives. In the UK speeding is still a major problem. It causes needless crashes, untold suffering and stops people living safe and healthy lives. Road Safety Week aims to inspire thousands of schools, organisations and communities to take action on road safety and promote life-saving messages during the Week and beyond.

roadsafetyweek.org.uk/

USEFUL WEBSITESBikeAbility Scotlandwww.bikeabilityscotland.org

City Cycling Glasgow discussion forumcitycyclingglasgow.com/

Cycle Scheme’s How To pageswww.cyclescheme.co.uk/community/how-to

Cycling Scotlandwww.cyclingscotland.org

Cycling Scotland Journey Plannercyclejourneyplanner.cyclingscotland.org

Cycling UKwww.cyclinguk.orgChoose Another Waywww.chooseanotherway.com

De’ils On Wheelswww.deilsonwheels.org.uk

Glasgow City Councilwww.glasgow.gov.uk/cycling

Go Bike Strathclyde Cycle Campaignwww.gobike.org

Go Safe Glasgowwww.gosafeglasgow.com/

Living Streets Scotlandwww.livingstreets.org.uk/who-we-are/scotland

Scottish Cyclingwww.britishcycling.org.uk/scotland

Sustrans Scotlandwww.sustrans.org.uk/scotland

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