Almost £5m will be spent on expanding and improving Glasgow’s network of cycle lanes.

The council has been awarded the funding to increase the number of cycle routes and improve safety for cyclists.

The plan will include extending the South City Way into Pollok Park.

It will also pay for the construction of a two way cycle lane on Gorbals Street and Victoria Bridge as part of the South City Way taking it across the River Clyde into the city centre.

And it is planned to have more electronic road signs that wan drivers when a cyclist is approaching a junction.

The council said it has, so far, installed the signs at 16 junctions. The cash will be used to provide more.

The Pollok Park plans will see the South City Way extended and improvements for cycling on Dumbreck Road.

There will also be more work in the woodlands area, to add to the two way cycle lane on Garscube Road and the work done at the junction with St George’s Road and Possil Road.

The council will get £2,773,000 from Transport Scotland’s Cycling, Walking & Safer Routes fun, another £1,570,000 from SPT’s Paths for All programme and £553,000 from the Smarter Choices, Smarter Places fund.

Anna Richardson, , City Convener for Sustainability and Carbon Reduction, said: “The cycling-related funding will be used on projects which will expand and enhance the city’s cycling infrastructure and will tie in with the aspirations of the Council’s Strategic Plan for Cycling.”

Earlier this year the Glasgow Times reported how the council had underspent its budget for

We told how in a Spaces For People paper that went to committee in March, a table detailed an original cash award from Sustrans as £7.5m.

It showed £6.7m is expected to have been spent on walking, wheeling and cycling schemes by May 15, 2021.

Cycling campaigners have been calling for better, safer cycle lanes across the city.

The South City Way out to Queens Park,West City Way through Kelvingrove Park and East City Way out through Glasogw Green and London Road are at the centre of the councils cycle network.

More routes have been added around the city and the spaces for people programme added more temporary pop up bike lanes to encourage more cycling during the pandemic.

The Avenues programme for the city centre includes more space given to walking and cycling and the Connectivity Commission proposed a hierarchy of priority for space with walking, cycling and public transport ahead of private cars.

The cash is not only for cycling and will improve space for pedestrians.

Councillor Richardson added: “Enhancing conditions for walking through, for example, widening and improving footways, is also an important element of many of the projects.”

Councillors are being asked to approve accepting the funding at a meeting of the City administration Committee this week.