Glasgow infrastructure update, Summer 2025

In case anyone else has been losing track of all the construction projects going on just now… Glasgow City Council put out an Avenues Programme Progress Report (PDF) in April 2025. However, a few that were due to be complete by May 2025 are still going on. So, it seemed like a good time to revive GoBike’s Infrastructure Update and have a look…

Snapshot of progress

The following is a snapshot of active travel works in and around the city centre during May/June 2025.

Most of these are part of the Avenues Project (or Avenues Plus). Not all projects include segregated cycle lanes, for example: Holland St and Sauchiehall Precinct (but the latter has removed raised platforms so there’s more space for cycling). The photos give an idea of how things are taking shape. 

St George’s Road

Works started: 17 March 2025 (St George’s Rd article).
Progress: An earlier phase is complete at Charing Cross so works are moving north from there. There are already some improvements to side road junctions.
Connections: Charing Cross/Sauchiehall St at southern end. Northern end links to Garscube Rd as part of Connecting Woodside programme.
Completion due: Early 2026.

Sauchiehall Precinct/Cambridge Street

Works started: 27 September 2023 (Sauchiehall Precinct article).
Progress: Long-running works – western part of Sauchiehall Precinct (Rose St end) is finished with platform removed and new trees. Work still going at eastern end around W Nile St. Cambridge St also has finished sections but road still fenced off at Sauchiehall St.
Connections: Sauchiehall St, Buchanan St and underpasses to Cowcaddens Subway and Garscube Rd. In future, due to link to W Nile St Avenue.
Completion due: Originally summer 2024, should happen summer 2025!?

Pitt Street/Holland Street

Works started: Late March 2024 (Pitt St/Holland St article).
Progress: Most of Holland St is done – despite the name, it doesn’t have bike lanes. Protected cycleway is on Pitt St – mostly complete but fenced off. Slightly twisty crossing from Waterloo St (maybe designed to slow southbound riders?). Gradient doesn’t look too bad there but maybe a bit steeper up to W George St (by St Vincent St church – see main image, above). Lanes seem wider to accommodate faster descent. Works still ongoing either side of Bath St. 
Connections: Sauchiehall St to north and Waterloo St at south (West City Way/Connect2 bridge over M8).
Completion due: Was May 2025 but still bits to finish – hopefully not long.

Argyle Street (West)

Works started: 13 May 2024 (Argyle St W article).
Progress: Large parts of it are in place but unfinished, apart from the earlier phase in front of the JPMorgan Chase building.
Connections: Crossings at western end to path under Kingston Bridge from Clyde Walkway/NCN7. Also, to major developments near Daily Record building, like Platform (confusingly, the third place in Glasgow with that name – after the Arches event and venue in Easterhouse). Eastern end will link to Argyle St East (currently being designed).
Completion due: December 2025.

George V Bridge/Broomielaw

Works started: 24 March 2025 (George V Bridge article).
Progress: Mostly complete at southern end and lanes on bridge itself. Work still to do to link new protected bike lanes to existing Broomielaw route (may include installing bike-specific traffic lights?).
Connections: Clyde Walkway/NCN7 at north and Barclays campus/Clyde Place at south.
Completion due: End of June 2025.

George Square

Works started: May 2025 (was originally meant to be January – George Sq article).
Progress: Boards have gone up around former parking lanes. The Spaces for People planters seem to have been relocated to southern side of road. Not clear if it’s intended for pedestrians or cycling (with a ‘bus boarder’ ramps onto pavement in front of bus stop). Narrowed lanes in new arrangement seems like it could cause conflict for the next year and a half. Statues have been removed for maintenance.
Connections: Avenue on N Hanover St. Protected lanes going in at north side should eventually link to George St Avenue (but it was put back by City Deal spending review).
Completion due: August 2026. 

North Hanover Street/Kyle Street 

Works started: 26 May 2025 (N Hanover St/Kyle St article).
Progress: Just started on N Hanover St where bus diversion will cause a lot of disruption. Kyle St has some areas fenced off and a closure on a side street.
Connections: George Sq at south, Dobbie’s Loan/Cowcaddens Rd to west and Sighthill Bridge off Kyle St at northern end.
Completion due: April 2027.

Cowcaddens Road/Dobbies Loan

Works started: 18 February 2025. (Cowcaddens Rd/Dobbies Loan article).
Progress: Avenues Plus route on Cowcaddens Rd had to have a sinkhole repaired by Scottish Water.  On Dobbie’s Loan work has started on the southern pavement. 
Connections: N Hanover St/Kyle St to east (and Sighthill Bridge beyond).
Completion due: April 2026.

Duke Street/‘Barras North’

Works started: January 2025 (Duke St article).
Progress: Another Avenues Plus project – works to replace northern pavement on Duke St are nearly there. The protected bike lanes will go on the southern side of the road (and John Knox St works will follow). The ‘Barras North’ project between Barrack St and Bellgrove St has new speed tables and widened pavements, with a protected bike lane near completion on Sydney St. Also, there’s been work on a crossing at Bellgrove St near the station.
Connections: At east, path through future ‘linear park’ and sheds development at Meat Market, off Duke St/Sydney St. At the western end, future High St and George St Avenues. 
Completion due: April 2026.

Make or break

While not every detail will be perfect, and works can drag on, it’s clear there’s a lot happening. Once these are complete there will be the bones of a network of segregated cycleways around much of the city centre. We’ll still need to look at the gaps but there are further plans in the pipeline. It’s good to reflect on progress every so often and give credit where it’s due.

There’s a lot riding on the success of the Avenues project for active travel and the city in general. The disruption and pricetag mean there will be plenty of criticism (much of it from people who live outside the city). If we want more Avenues, and wider projects in the City Network, then healthy usage numbers from the above will really help the cause. And the more we (as individuals and as a group) can explain the difference they make to citizens, the better.