| Comment | NIMBYism, quite simply.
It was meant to be built in 2 (maybe 3?) sections.
It was at the public consultation meeting for the 2nd and 3rd sections in 2016 where things kicked off. Someone recorded it, and you can have a listen to it here. https://youtu.be/NVYX4cN4uX0
It's really quite remarkable, how riled up people can be at the idea of a protected lane for vulnerable road users, but there you go.
Common reasons given for being against it were loss of parking spaces, and oddly, claims that it would lead to more congestion. Some people were saying it's a major road *for* cars, and bikes should be somewhere else.
There was also a targeted campaign that went on for quite a while of tacks being left over the existing lane.
East Renfrewshire council shat it and put the rest of the cycle route on ice after that public meeting in 2016 though.
So now you have a reasonably well built, solid protective lane which runs, what, 500 metres, connecting nothing to nothing. I think genuinely there was risk of it being torn up, but that might not be the case now with safe cycling infrastructure and environmental issues a bit higher on the agenda. So, who knows, if there's enough of a campaign to get it completed, it still might be. |
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