Work to revamp two busy East End streets will start next year costing £8m.

Glasgow’s Avenues Programme is moving out of the city centre and into Duke Street and John Knox Street.

The work to redesign the road and pavements is due to start in the first week of January.

It will focus on Duke Street from High Street to Bellgrove Street and John Knox Street from Castle Street to Duke Street.

(Image: Gordon Terris)

(Image: Gordon Terris)

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The construction work will extend and resurface the footpaths and install new kerbs. The roads will be resurfaced and remarked with the creation of new cycle ways and other “public realm improvements”.

(Image: Gordon Terris)

The Avenues Plus Project, to complement the overall Avenues work which is paid for from City Deal cash, is fully funded through external funding from sustainable active travel organisation Sustrans.

The work is expected to take 15 months and be complete in the spring of 2026.

Councillors are being asked to approve awarding the contract for work to Rainton Construction (Scotland) Ltd

Duke Street is one of four Avenues Plus projects. The others are Cowcaddens Road, from Cambridge Street to North Hanover Street, Dobbie's Loan, from North Hanover Street to Canal Street and South Portland Street, from Carlton Place suspension bridge to Norfolk Street.

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When the Duke street work was first proposed Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council, said: "The Duke Street and John Knox Street Avenues Plus project will bring economic, environmental, health and social benefits to everyone who lives and works in the area.

“Like the rest of the Avenues Plus programme, this work will improve connections and opportunities for active travel between local communities and the nearby city centre."

Karen McGregor, Sustrans Director for Scotland said, "Opportunities for accessible walking, wheeling, and cycling across Glasgow have never been greater than they are now.

“By facilitating safer journeys through the city centre and building common sense connections to other local routes, the Avenues Plus project plays a huge part of the active travel transformation we are already seeing across Scotland."