How far is protected cycling from your door?
0% of Glaswegians live within 800 m riding of the city's main protected cycle network.
The 2032 programme lifts that to 0%. The full 270 km City Network, now a longer-term aim with no delivery date, would reach 0%.
More on these figures
That counts 0 km of protected track from a community-maintained map of what has been built since the May 2025 data, which on its own gives 0%.
The council's Active Travel Strategy aims for every home to be within 800 m of segregated cycling infrastructure. 0% of residents are that close to some protected track, but much of it sits in 0 fragments, 0 km in all, that join nothing bigger.
Protected means segregated cycle track or off-road cycle path as mapped in OpenStreetMap. Painted lanes and quiet streets lined with parked cars don't count.
Across the city
Residents whose neighbourhood is mostly within 800 m riding of the main protected network. Select a bar to show it on the map.
The network in numbers
Main network: 0 km. Cut-off fragments: 0 with 0 km of track. Within 800 m of any protected track: 0%. Track added from the community map: 0 km. Most deprived fifth of neighbourhoods: 0%.
Routes built since May 2025 come from Glasgow Cycle Map: Now and Future, maintained by u/Correct-Audience-421 and used with permission. Checked not yet; last changed not yet. Thank you.
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Sources and credits
- Streets, protected infrastructure, speed limits and one-way rules: © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence, via the Network Planning Tool for Scotland and Esri's OpenStreetMap services.
- Traffic stress ratings and modelled cycle flows: Network Planning Tool for Scotland, May 2025 release.
- Routes built since May 2025: Glasgow Cycle Map: Now and Future, by u/Correct-Audience-421, used with permission.
- City Network plans, city boundary, automatic cycle counters and road collisions (DfT STATS19): Glasgow City Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Neighbourhoods and population: National Records of Scotland and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020, via the Network Planning Tool, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Heights: Scottish Public Sector LiDAR, Phase 5 bare-earth terrain model (50 cm), with Phases 6, 3 and 4 filling gaps: Crown copyright Scottish Government and Fugro (2021), Open Government Licence v3.0. Used on a 10 m grid, in the profile, the puff-ometer and the 3D terrain; bridges and water are spanned in a straight line and the Clyde Tunnel's foot and cycle tunnels dip about 20 m below the river.
- Music library: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0. Live radio: Radio Swiss Classic and Nightride FM.
- Beyond the city (routing only): streets and paths out to about 8 km around Glasgow from the Network Planning Tool for Scotland May 2025 street layer and OpenStreetMap (ODbL); heights on a 30 m grid from the Scottish Public Sector LiDAR, with Mapzen terrain tiles filling gaps. Collisions there come from the Department for Transport's national STATS19 data for the same years as Glasgow's; Glasgow's figures, crossings and cycle levels cover the city only.
- Ask the map: WebLLM (Apache 2.0) running Microsoft Phi-4-mini (MIT) or Qwen2.5 1.5B (Apache 2.0) in your browser.
- 3D virtual cycle: OpenFreeMap vector tiles, © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors, drawn with MapLibre GL; terrain from Mapzen Terrain Tiles.
- Background maps: © OpenStreetMap contributors (light grey and streets); CyclOSM; satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS User Community.
How this works and what it can't do
What counts as protected
Protected infrastructure is every way that the Network Planning Tool for Scotland (May 2025 release) classes as segregated cycle track, wide or narrow, or off-road cycleway, from OpenStreetMap. Shared pavements can be added with the checkbox. Painted lanes are left out because nothing stops cars parking in them.
How protected sections join up
Protected sections join where they share a junction. Short gaps, such as a junction where a track stops, count as joined if the unprotected riding across them is within the gap you choose. Only the streets on the shortest link between two protected sections count as a gap, and the map draws them as a dotted line so they are not mistaken for protected track. The main network is the largest joined-up set of protected track. Distances to it follow the street network from each street, not a straight line.
Community map updates
"Today, with community updates" adds the built routes from Glasgow Cycle Map: Now and Future, a community map maintained by u/Correct-Audience-421 and used with permission. Its built lines cover off-road and segregated routes, traffic-free links, and some shared pavements the author judges important; those shared pavements count only when shared pavements are switched on. Each built line becomes a protected path, sampled every 25 m and joined to any street junction within 20 m, so it changes which parts of the network join up. Lines already in the May 2025 data are not counted twice in the track totals. Its under-construction lines are added in the 2032 programme and the full plan. The map is checked every Monday and the page rebuilds itself when it changes.
How routes are chosen
The route planner follows the network for the scenario you pick, so the same trip can be compared today and under the plans. Routes follow a cyclist confidence slider with five levels. "Riding with children" treats a quiet street as three times its length and a busy road as up to 25 times, adds 400 m for every busy road it joins or crosses from a calm street (less at mapped signals), and may run up to 2.5 times the shortest legal route to stay protected. "Cautious", the default, is a little less strict, with a 2 times limit; "Steady" allows 1.5 times; "Confident" mostly rides with traffic; and "Very confident" takes the shortest legal route. If a leg would stretch beyond its level's limit, that leg steps up a level, and the profile says so. Riding speed rises from 11 km/h with children to 20 km/h for very confident riders. Stops stay where you put them, including side roads you want to call in on
One-way streets and contraflow
Distances follow one-way streets as mapped in OpenStreetMap, in both directions, and the longer of the ride to the network and the ride back counts. Only 53 streets in Glasgow are mapped with contraflow cycling, which leaves 95 km of quiet one-way streets that bikes can use in one direction only. The what-if option opens all of them to two-way cycling, the low-cost change the community map's author singles out as the main thing keeping people off quiet back streets.
Possible missing links
The possible missing links are residential dead ends that come within 25 m of another street or path, at a similar height, with no mapped way between them within 400 m of riding. A dropped kerb or a filtered gap could join many of them, but some are walls, fences, private land or simply unmapped paths, so each needs checking on the ground. They are shown on the map but not counted in the figures.
Bridges and blocked links
Community-mapped lines join the street network within 20 m of their ends and 15 m along their length, and never to a road on a bridge or in a tunnel unless the two genuinely meet, so a riverside path is not joined to the bridge above it. Links reported as steps or barriers are listed in the project's blocked-links file and removed from the network and the route planner.
Bike collision data
Bike collisions are the 828 personal-injury collisions involving a cyclist or a pedal cycle in the Department for Transport's STATS19 road safety data for Glasgow, as published by Glasgow City Council: 569 slight, 250 serious and 9 fatal. The council's file runs from 2016 to 2023 but holds very few collisions for 2019. Only collisions reported to the police are recorded, and many cycling injuries never are, so the counts understate the risk. Each collision is matched to the street within 25 m, preferring the carriageway where a track runs alongside. Hotspots are places with at least 4 bike collisions within 50 m.
Collision risk against cycling levels
Collision counts also follow how many people cycle somewhere, so they are set against the cycling each street carries. That comes from the Network Planning Tool's modelled daily cycle flows, scaled to Glasgow City Council's automatic cycle counters: across 84 counters, counted flows run at a median of 1.34 times the model, with a rank correlation of 0.69. A check against 26 Department for Transport counted sites on main roads in 2018 agrees less well (correlation 0.49), so treat flows on individual streets as approximate. Risk is the weighted number of collisions (slight 1, serious 3, fatal 6) against the number expected for the cycling there, smoothed so a single collision on a quiet street does not dominate, with 1 meaning the city average.
Collisions in routing
Protected track stays the main routing preference. With "Also steer away from unprotected streets with high collision risk" on, only unprotected streets are penalised: each unit of risk above the city average counts as extra riding, from 300 m when riding with children down to none for very confident riders. A route never leaves protected track to avoid collisions.
Neighbourhood shading
Neighbourhood shading has two parts. The colour shows how much of a neighbourhood's street length is within 800 m of the main protected network. The strength shows how calm its streets are: the shading fades as more of the street length is rated Low or worse for traffic stress without protection, so a neighbourhood near the network but full of busy roads looks weaker than a calm one.
The 800 m measure
A neighbourhood is one of Glasgow's 746 data zones, with its population from the Network Planning Tool. It counts as within 800 m when at least half of its street length is within 800 m riding of the main network. The 800 m figure comes from the council's Active Travel Strategy, which measures it to any segregated infrastructure. This page measures it to the main network, so a cut-off fragment does not count. The deprived fifth uses the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020, deciles 1 and 2.
The 2032 programme
In June 2026 the council approved Connecting Glasgow. It prioritises about 54 km of routes for delivery by 2032, after Transport Scotland moved active travel funding from multi-year to single-year grants, and keeps the 270 km City Network as a longer-term aim. The 2032 programme here matches the council's listed sections to its route data by street name: 57 km in total, 49 km not yet built. Treat it as approximate. Planned routes are assumed protected once built and join the junctions they pass within 35 m.
Traffic stress ratings
Traffic stress ratings apply the level-of-service table in Transport Scotland's Cycling by Design guidance to OpenStreetMap layouts, speed limits and modelled traffic. Traffic figures are model estimates, not counts.
Checking for parked cars
To check for cars parked in a painted lane, open the satellite view link on any street. Satellite images are single daytime snapshots, so they show fewer parked cars than evenings or weekends.
Reports
Reports open as public GitHub issues on this project, which needs a free GitHub account. They appear on the map once a maintainer adds them to the reports file. FixMyStreet sends a report to the council and needs no GitHub account.
Source code, data and method on GitHub
Privacy
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Version: 21 October 2026, 13:15