Photo listing: road environments
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This listing only shows photos within Glasgow.
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Although the signs at West Campbell Street have been changed from 'No Vehicles' to 'No Motor Vehicles Pedestrian and Cycle Zone', there is no dropped kerb to enable cycling into the cycle zone.
The resurfaced footway of the otherwise abandoned Swordale Place. In combination with Kildermorie Road, useful for local trips across Easterhouse, avoiding the main roads, but with all the broken glass and other debris, a very unattractive … [more]
Abandoned Kildermorie Road, blocked off with concrete blocks at each end (with no gap for cycling) and covered in broken glass and other debris. But a useful link for local trips avoiding the main roads.
Hey @MyGlasgowCC this cycle lane at Blairdardie westbound feels like riding on snow with ice underneath, time the lane was cleared? https://t.co/QM3iApKL7e
Just your standard Advance Stop Line with a cycle lane approach that will be driven in by motorists using the pointless inside lane. And another van driver who has parked on the footway.
The bollards removed for COP26 still have not been reinstated, and the plastic box keeps getting moved aside, allowing drivers to enter and leave the Kelvingrove Art Gallery grounds from Argyle Street, at the pedestrian crossing (see … [more]
A very poorly maintained raised junction at the intersection of Bank Street and Glasgow Street. The paving blocks are very uneven and awkward to ride over.
A poor road environment on Sauchiehall Street at Charing Cross, leading to these two cycling on the footway and traffic island. And they weren't the only ones.
Was I imagining that this road got resurfaced last year? A very poor surface on a road that supposedly is the flagship Colleges Cycle Route. See #186854.
Was I imagining that this road got resurfaced last year? The sign for the junction ahead should show a crossroads, not just a junction on one side.
Still no dropped kerb at the Panmure Gate entrance to the award-winning Claypits Local Nature Reserve.
Toucan crossing on North Canal Bank Street, connecting the cycleway to the bascule bridge over the canal.
The narrow advisory cycle lanes on Highburgh Road are almost invisible. The taxi is parked on a bus stop clearway.
The narrow advisory cycle lanes on Highburgh Road are almost invisible. The section of road in the foreground has been resurfaced, and awaits the reinstatement of road markings.
Highburgh Road, resurfaced, but awaiting reinstatement of road markings besides the stop lines for the toucan crossing.
The narrow advisory cycle lanes on Highburgh Road are almost invisible. The section of road in the foreground has been resurfaced and awaits the reinstatement of road markings.
The Netherton Road traffic filter has still not been modified to comply with Council Policy to allow cycles through, and this rusty stump of a post is a tripping, cutting and puncture hazard when trying to get around using the lowest point … [more]
Stepped ramp at Charing Cross, Glasgow See also #144003 which describes small asphalt ramps, which I did not notice.
There's a sort of route between the bridge on the left and the path on the right here on Renfrew Street. The area is known as Charing Cross. The bridge has three small steps at the far end, so it is not a cycle route.
The lanes between the main roads are really just service roads for the buildings with lots of blockages.
A surface dressing has been applied to the now closed to motor traffic George Square East, outside the City Chambers.
This lamppost is the only hint that there is a Charles Rennie Mackintosh art centre here. It has burned down twice and is obscured by the dense scaffolding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh
Freshly painted car parking bays on Queen Margaret Drive, where Glasgow City Council had consulted on putting a protected cycleway. See https://www.northkelvincc.org.uk/2019/10/queen-margaret-drive-cycleway/
Missing bollards where Garriochmill Road becomes the Kelvin Walkway, with graffiti obscuring the sign. Yet other sections of the Kelvin Walkway have multiple barriers in the name of attempting to prevent access for motorbikes.
Still no reinstatement of bollards at any of the three locations that once had them at some stage previously. However, the sign advising of no vehicular access has been cleaned. (There is of course actually vehicular access for cycles.)
Anyone not turning left must leave the protected cycle lane and use the anonymous advance stop line.
The double yellow lines continue across the advisory pedestrian crossings and into the Restricted Parking Zone where double yellow lines are not meant to go. There are no markings or signs to say that the parking extending into the distance … [more]
North Canal Bank Street back open to traffic, and there's plenty of it. The tactile paving on the cycle track is still incorrect.
Another view of the 'Give Way' line in #182981. Note the pedestrian using the diagonal cycle crossing.
The Advance Stop Line at Hopehill Road had been installed in such an advanced position, it was beyond the traffic signal!
While the two crossings on Maryhill Road are pedestrian crossings, the crossing on the Hopehill Road side of the junction is a toucan crossing.
Detectors have been installed in the Argyle Street footway at the crossing to Bunhouse Road, not just on the side that cyclists will be approaching from, but also on this side which is not part of any cycleway. The signals remain bagged, … [more]
Although Glasgow City Council has declared that closing Kelvin Way to motor vehicles is to be permanent, none of the motoring infrastructure has been removed. The railings, kerbs, bollards, parking meters, and this toucan crossing all … [more]
An Advance Stop Line without its cycle symbol, on Byres Road. The motor-based tourism signage has not been altered since Kelvin Way has been shut to motor traffic.
University Avenue at the western limit of its reworking. Note the centre line is less restrictive than the lane lines.
The Puffin crossing shows no signs of being converted to Toucan, or any other way of providing access to the still unfinished cycle route across the junction.
The start of the Ferry Road cycleway, leading to the Old Dumbarton Road and Benalder Street cycleways. The sharrows point cyclists along the main carriageway and not onto the cycleway.
The Bunhouse Road cycleway crosses Old Dumbarton Road without priority, and illegal parking restricts visibility.
The Bunhouse Road cycleway priority crossing as seen from the car park. Restricted visibility, tiny Give Way markings and an offside information sign.
Dalsholm Bridge has had its deck surface replaced by slippery, lumpy cobble stones, and if you fall off spiky railings have been fitted to the bridge's parapets.
The cycle lanes on London Road stop short of each junction, and in this case. motor traffic is instructed to use the inside lane for continuing straight ahead.
The cycle lanes on London Road outside Celtic Park have had their armadillos removed and the markings replaced by ribbed markings, following Police intervention.
The sign seen in #95295 to warn (or inform since it wasn't a warning sign) of the cycle track crossing has gone missing. Also, the tactile paving for the pedestrian crossing has several tyre tracks across it.
The cycle signals at the Argyle Street crossing have been partly uncovered. The tactile paving on this side of the pedestrian crossing has been removed, as have the bollards.
Rejoin traffic from the end of the cycleway at the corner of Old Dumbarton Road and Yorkhill Street.
Back to business as usual with the traffic racing round the Benalder Street/Old Dumbarton Road junction.
No improvement at Argyle Street. However, the plastic barrier which had been pushed beyond the asphalt ramp has been restored to its intended position.
The dropped kerb at the end of Ferry Road is now clear from obstructions (see #173875), but the footway surface is still incomplete.
The cycle off-slip at Finnieston Street allows cyclists to legally leave the carriageway and use the toucan crossing across Lancefield Quay to get to the National Cycle Network route 75, even when the traffic signals are on red. The similar … [more]
The one remaining cycle off-slip at the Finnieston Street/Clyde Arc junction. The one at #173654 has been blocked off with a railing.
Freshly painted Advance Stop Lines at Anderston Cross, but none at the second stop lines under the motorway bridge.
This scar will never heal!” - west flank opening, 1972 (from ‘The Glasgow Herald Book of Glasgow’) https://t.co/nARiXLdKUP
An improvement on #89968 at the end of Anderson Street. A dropped kerb has also been provided to access the road directly. There is a toucan crossing just off to the right as well.
Large gaps in protection on the eastbound cycle lane in Brockburn Road, and parking bays with pavement parking.
A parking bay painted across a dropped kerb, and duly parked in, obstructing pedestrian access across the road. Not the first time I've seen a parking or loading bay across a dropped kerb (see also #48651).
The odd narrow footway arrangement under the Castlebank Street railway bridge approaching NCN7. There is a dropped kerb to join the path immediately after the bridge (see #173856), while the rest of the road is just a dead-end alongside … [more]
The lining on the new Old Dumbarton Road cycle track has been done, for the section that is complete (either end is still in construction), but there is still no way of crossing the road from the Bunhouse Road shared footway due to kerbs. … [more]
The footway on the north side of Castlebank Street resumes, but is fenced off just west of the toucan crossing (as seen in #173896). That doesn't stop people using it, and a worn desire line is visible in the grass verge too. NCN7 crosses … [more]
The northern footway of Castlebank Street doesn't last long, and like South Street, has large gaps in it. A traffic island is the only aid for crossing. NCN7 shares the footway on the right with pedestrians. The site on the left is being … [more]
The Sawmill Road junction used to have the cycle path on a former railway bridge over the top of the road, but now that has been demolished, the cycle route is on the South Street shared footway to the right. The footway on this side … [more]
This section of street, which appears to be referred to as Beith Way in the COP26 diversion consultation, turns into B808 Beith Street, although the footway continues straight ahead alongside the wall.
The northern footway on South Street comes to another break, and again there is a desire line worn in the grass. NCN7 is on the opposite shared footway. Meanwhile, a line of car showroom flags marks the course of the demolished former … [more]
The resumption of the South Street footway at Ferryden Street was brief, and it comes to an end again after the car showroom built on the course of the cycle path. The path used to cross Harmsworth Street here on a former railway bridge. … [more]
South Street, with worn desire line in the grass verge where there is a missing footway, a speed camera that has been out of use for a long time, a traffic counter, and NCN7 on the footway across the road.
South Street carries quite a lot of industrial traffic, due to the area it is in. So the cycle route (on the footway on the right) is so unattractive to these two cyclists that they prefer this road to the shared footway cycle route. The … [more]
The footway on this side of South Street resumes, with the worn desire line continuous from #173806. The NCN7 cycle route on the opposite footway is not good enough to attract these two to use it.
The toucan crossing is used to follow the cycle route which continues on the footway of the other side of South Street, but there is a clear desire line for staying on this side. There is a short break before the footway resumes at Ferryden … [more]
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