YOU report on the excellent work done by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health (“Cycleways take wrong turn on route to health equality”, The Herald March 13), and carry a very supportive editorial (“Cycling should be the heart of progressive planning”, The Herald, March 13). So why aren't there good cycle facilities in the more deprived areas of Glasgow?
There are two reasons I suggest, first, that for too long, it has been assumed that we all have the aspiration to own a car and secondly, the evidence as to where people cycle is being ignored. There is clear evidence, from cycle apps, both commercial and those used by local authorities, and from cordon counts as to where people cycle. Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow is the most heavily cycled route in the city, coming in from the affluent suburbs of East Renfrewshire, through one of the poorer areas of Glasgow, to the city centre. This is despite there being no adequate cycle facilities. Many more people would get on a bike if this mode of transport were adequately provided for. So local and national government need to wake up and build cycle lanes where people cycle, not where it's easy to put a bit of paint on the road.
Patricia Fort,
15 Lanark Street, Glasgow.
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