Glasgow's Avenues programme extends to the Broomielaw
May 13 2024
New plans to extend the Avenues public realm project to the Broomielaw and Clyde Street are to be shared by Glasgow City Council this Wednesday.
The authority will host a drop-in session at the Briggait Arts Centre between 12:00 and 15:00, in tandem with an online edition for those unable to make it along.
Environmental consultant Ironside Farrar will be in attendance to explain their approach, which includes sacrificing one road traffic lane for a planted pedestrian buffer and the installation of raised kerbing to provide additional protection for an existing cycle lane.
The plans will rationalise Clyde Street to a two-lane highway with improved paving enhancing the setting of riverfront landmarks such as St Andrew's Cathedral.
Extending along the waterfront to the Broomielaw where a four-lane highway will also be halved in width, retaining a segregated two-lane bus route. This will allow the addition of a landward cycle lane and a more generous pedestrian route.
Respondents have until 14 June to provide comments.
The common public realm strategy extends the length of Clyde Street and the Broomielaw
The excessive girth of tarmac strangling the river is to be reined in
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Terrible that this is seen as front rank / regional economic investment rather than the Civic / local tarting up that it is.
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Have budgets been squeezed to breaking? If they want the waterfront as the City's new front room, they need to do better than this.
It would be helpful if the designers indicated how this is meant to tie in with the proposals for Custom House Quay (assuming this hasn't been shelved).