| Comment | Mmm there is a national cycling route that runs relatively close and parallel to the M8 from the Broomielaw through Anderston. Definitely 'uphill' but I wouldn't say steep.
It'll eventually be upgraded and be a fairly viable way of getting from the riverside up to Charing Cross area, avoiding steep streets like Pitt Street, which oddly does have bike infrastructure planned for it (can't quite get my head around that one).
Besides Pitt Street, which does stand out as a bad choice for new cycle route, all the others are planned for relatively shallow gradient roads.
Talking about routes south to north leaving the riverside, there's the route I mentioned earlier, also Yorkhill cycling village improvements, Byres Road renovation, and an ambition to include Crow Road in the eventual cycling network. None of these are crazy steep and will work fine.
Otherwise, there will be a few north south connector streets inside the city centre itself, connecting networks on either side of the centre to one another. You can already get from the riverside to Maryhill on traffic free routes via: Buchanan Street, Sauchiehall Street, Cambridge Street, Garscube Road. None of it all that steep. |
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