Cycling infrastucture
Length of cycling infrastructure
The data shown here is taken from the 2018 Bike Life Glasgow report undertaken by Sustrans and Glasgow City Council. On the basis of this work Glasgow has 293.3 km of dedicated cycle routes for everyday cycling.
The total lengths (in km) of each type of cycle route within the network are given beneath:
Cycle route type |
Length (Km) |
Bus and cycle lanes |
39.7 |
On road painted cycle lanes |
49.2 |
Shared use footways |
151.2 |
Cycle tracks within highway, physically separated from traffic and pedestrians |
7.5 |
Traffic free cycle routes away from the highway |
45.7 |
Routes segregated from vehicles (sum of 3 categories above) |
204.4 |
|
|
All routes |
293.3 |
Glasgow City Council has a web mapping application which provides an interactive map of cycling facilities across Glasgow.
Notes:
The categories and distances are those that were used in Bike Life Glasgow report.
As Bike Life was about ‘everyday cycling’ it did not take ‘Mountain Bike Trail’ lengths or other associated sport cycling lengths into account.
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