| Comment | Yep it's far from ideal. I'm mostly comfortable on the road, but there are some parts of the Glasgow road network that even I will simply avoid using on a bike, and take the pavement instead for short stretches. If ever I do, I do extremely cautiously and slowly, with mind to pedestrians having complete priority.
It's also sometimes necessary to use the pavement to access cycle routes that aren't on-road (if they're down side streets or in parks). And sometimes the pavement itself *is* the cycle route, if it's a designated shared use path. These are usually signed, but aren't so clear and often pedestrians don't even realise that's where the cyclist is encouraged to be. Long story short, we need more segregated routes in Glasgow to keep cars, cyclists and pedestrians apart as much as possible. |
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