Almost £500,000 is to be spent on equipment to support efforts to help more people cycle in Glasgow.

The council is to approve contracts to buy cycle racks, bike storage shelters and electronic cycle counters.

More cycle lanes have been opened across Glasgow, and more are under construction in the city centre and on key routes.

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The South City Way recently was extended into the city centre and is also going further out to Queen’s Park and Battlefield.

Councillors are now being asked to approve spending on infrastructure needed to support the new lanes and encourage people to cycle.

A lack of safe storage has been noted as a barrier to cycling with people worried their bike will be at risk of theft if left on the street.

The deal is to pay £10,000 for cycle racks, £175,000 for the cycle counters, and £280,000 for secure storage units.

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The cycle counters placed at strategic points will allow the council to monitor how many people are using the bike lanes.

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A report for councillors states: “This framework will be utilised to implement a cycle infrastructure that will further enhance and promote cycling as a preferred form of active travel around the city, cycling in schools and encourage early behavioural changes from more sedentary and environmentally harmful methods of travel.

“Other aspects of the infrastructure will allow the council to monitor cycle usage as well as assist the council to make informed strategic decisions on future development works in relation to expansion of the city’s cycling network.”

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The council’s active travel strategy includes the aim that no school in Glasgow is more than 400 metres from a safer, segregated cycle route and no resident lives more than 800 metres from such a route.

The overall plan is to create 167 miles of segregated cycle infrastructure by 2030 in five phases.

A new route has recently opened in the south section of Byres Road in the West End.

Others include new routes like London Road out to Mount Vernon and redesigned junctions including Charing Cross, Battlefield and Yorkhill.