Submission Documents: By Councillor Kim Long:- "Council notes that transport is Scotland's biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions; that car and van use accounts for over half of these emissions; and that there is abundant evidence that building a new road creates more vehicle traffic through induced demand. Council notes that car-centric transport design in Glasgow has created decades of avoidable challenges for communities, including ongoing physical barriers, unattractive and unsafe routes for walking, wheeling and cycling, and increased noise and air pollution. Council notes that such impacts are not evenly distributed across the city; that the impact of dominant road infrastructure on communities reinforces existing inequalities, including health outcomes, and access to and safety of travel for disabled people, women, BME people, trans and non-binary people and people living in poverty. Council affirms that action on both inequality and the Climate and Ecological Emergencies requires profoundly altered transport policy priorities for the city, and also that such altered priorities are an opportunity to create more pleasant, thriving, connected local communities. Council notes that the 2020 Public Conversation on transport found that the top changes Glasgow residents would like to see include: - better environments for walking; - more restrictions on traffic; - more segregated cycle tracks/safer places to cycle; and - better access to cycles and cycling support. Council notes that the new Glasgow Transport Strategy will align with the national Sustainable Travel Hierarchy, and the vision in the new recent Active Travel Strategy Consultation for a Glasgow where "Walking, cycling and wheeling will be the first and natural choice for everyday journeys, for people of all ages and ability to travel locally to schools, shops or socially, to work, or to the city centre." Council notes that in 2016/17, £500,000 was committed by the then Executive Committee to develop plans for the East End Regeneration Route Phase 3 to pre-tender readiness, and for a further report to come to committee, and that no such report was brought. Council notes that Hogarth Park, the planned route of EERR3, is in need of significant attention. Council notes local interest to improve the park along with potential investment, but that such improvement has stalled with the continued uncertainty around EERR3. Council notes that north east communities have among the lowest levels of car ownership in the city. Council notes that conversion of the former Riddrie/Haghill railway line bed alongside Provan Road and through Hogarth Park into a new active travel route could transform a fly-tipping hotspot and better connect north east communities to the Forge shopping centre, the forthcoming Parkhead Health and Social Care Hub, and beyond. Council further notes that Dennistoun, Riddrie and Carntyne will be among the first communities to take part in the Liveable Neighbourhoods process to create connected 20 minute neighbourhoods, but that neither this process nor the proposed new Strategic Development Framework for the Inner East can realistically progress while it remains unclear whether a new four lane road will be driven through their communities. Council therefore agrees that: - Phase 3 of the East End Regeneration Route is incompatible with the Council's planned action on Climate and Ecological Emergencies; incompatible with forthcoming transport strategies; and does not align with public need; - delivery of Phase 3 of the East End Regeneration Route will no longer be pursued; and - conversion of the former Riddrie/Haghill railway line bed to a new active travel route should be explored as part of development of Active Travel plans and Liveable Neighbourhood engagement work." Help Icon

This is the list of documents available for the submission By Councillor Kim Long:- "Council notes that transport is Scotland's biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions; that car and van use accounts for over half of these emissions; and that there is abundant evidence that building a new road creates more vehicle traffic through induced demand. Council notes that car-centric transport design in Glasgow has created decades of avoidable challenges for communities, including ongoing physical barriers, unattractive and unsafe routes for walking, wheeling and cycling, and increased noise and air pollution. Council notes that such impacts are not evenly distributed across the city; that the impact of dominant road infrastructure on communities reinforces existing inequalities, including health outcomes, and access to and safety of travel for disabled people, women, BME people, trans and non-binary people and people living in poverty. Council affirms that action on both inequality and the Climate and Ecological Emergencies requires profoundly altered transport policy priorities for the city, and also that such altered priorities are an opportunity to create more pleasant, thriving, connected local communities. Council notes that the 2020 Public Conversation on transport found that the top changes Glasgow residents would like to see include: - better environments for walking; - more restrictions on traffic; - more segregated cycle tracks/safer places to cycle; and - better access to cycles and cycling support. Council notes that the new Glasgow Transport Strategy will align with the national Sustainable Travel Hierarchy, and the vision in the new recent Active Travel Strategy Consultation for a Glasgow where "Walking, cycling and wheeling will be the first and natural choice for everyday journeys, for people of all ages and ability to travel locally to schools, shops or socially, to work, or to the city centre." Council notes that in 2016/17, £500,000 was committed by the then Executive Committee to develop plans for the East End Regeneration Route Phase 3 to pre-tender readiness, and for a further report to come to committee, and that no such report was brought. Council notes that Hogarth Park, the planned route of EERR3, is in need of significant attention. Council notes local interest to improve the park along with potential investment, but that such improvement has stalled with the continued uncertainty around EERR3. Council notes that north east communities have among the lowest levels of car ownership in the city. Council notes that conversion of the former Riddrie/Haghill railway line bed alongside Provan Road and through Hogarth Park into a new active travel route could transform a fly-tipping hotspot and better connect north east communities to the Forge shopping centre, the forthcoming Parkhead Health and Social Care Hub, and beyond. Council further notes that Dennistoun, Riddrie and Carntyne will be among the first communities to take part in the Liveable Neighbourhoods process to create connected 20 minute neighbourhoods, but that neither this process nor the proposed new Strategic Development Framework for the Inner East can realistically progress while it remains unclear whether a new four lane road will be driven through their communities. Council therefore agrees that: - Phase 3 of the East End Regeneration Route is incompatible with the Council's planned action on Climate and Ecological Emergencies; incompatible with forthcoming transport strategies; and does not align with public need; - delivery of Phase 3 of the East End Regeneration Route will no longer be pursued; and - conversion of the former Riddrie/Haghill railway line bed to a new active travel route should be explored as part of development of Active Travel plans and Liveable Neighbourhood engagement work.".

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