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East Renfrewshire Council is currently seeking your views on early design ideas for five projects that aim to make it safer and easier to travel around your neighbourhood by walking, wheeling, or cycling: the A77 Active Corridor, Clarkston-Muirend Active Corridor, Clarkston-Thornliebank Active Corridor, Lower Whitecraigs Community Link, and Wytch Wood Community Link.

East Renfrewshire Council is currently seeking your views on five projects that aim to make it safer and easier to travel around your neighbourhood by walking, wheeling, or cycling: the A77 Active Corridor, Clarkston-Muirend Active Corridor, Clarkston-Thornliebank Active Corridor, Lower Whitecraigs Community Link, and Wytch Wood Community Link.

We're pleased to announce that two additional community engagement events for these projects have now been organised as follows:

• Clarkston Library on Tuesday 19 March from 10am until 5pm
• Giffnock Library on Tuesday 26 March from 10am until 7pm

These events are a great opportunity to help shape the early-stage Concept Design plans currently being developed, so please do pop in - members of the project team will be on hand throughout the day to answer any questions you may have.

We're inviting residents to help shape early plans for five ambitious projects that will make it easier to walk, wheel, or cycle for everyday journeys.

The plans call for a connected network of active travel routes across Giffnock, Netherlee, Clarkston, and Newton Mearns, which aim to:

• Upgrade major junctions like Eastwood Toll, to make it safer and easier for everyone to cross the road;
• Deliver separated cycleways along busy roads, to make cycling safer and more attractive for people of all ages and abilities;
• Complete missing links in the off-road path network, to break down barriers between communities and make it quicker to access local services.

We want to learn more about what would help residents make short trips on foot or by bike. A series of drop-in events have been organised in local libraries on the following dates and times:

• Giffnock Library on Tuesday 5 March from 10am until 7pm
• Mearns Library on Wednesday 6 March from 10am until 5pm
• Clarkston Library on Thursday 7 March from 10am until 5pm

At these events, residents will be able to see ideas on how streets in East Renfrewshire could be designed differently. Members of the project team will be on hand throughout the day to answer any questions, and information about every project will be available at each event.

We've also launched dedicated web pages about the projects:

• A77 Active Corridor Phase 5+ - open now
• Clarkston-Muirend Active Corridor - open now
• Clarkston-Thornliebank Active Corridor - open now
• Lower Whitecraigs Community Link - opens Tuesday 5 February
• Wytch Wood Community Link - opens Tuesday 5 February

These pages will show the same information as the in-person events, and will also include quick surveys that will help residents send feedback to the project team. The online surveys will be open until Sunday 31 March.

East Renfrewshire Council is working to deliver major improvements for active travel (walking, wheeling, and cycling) along Ayr Road as part of the A77 Active Corridor project.Previous phases of work have significantly upgraded the foot and cycle paths along the rural section of Ayr Road (Phase 1) and in the Malletsheugh/Maidenhill area of Newton Mearns (Phase 2).

We are pleased to announce that the next phase of the project is now being developed. Phase 3 will extend the route further along Ayr Road - from Hunter Drive to Barrhead Road - delivering a continuous and attractive active travel route between Maidenhill and Newton Mearns town centre.

The project has the following key aims:

As work to construct the A77 Active Corridor - Phase 2 enters its final stages, we are pleased to confirm that the new traffic light-controlled junction at Ayr Road / Hunter Drive / Mearnswood Place is now operational. This junction, which replaces the previous Malletsheugh Roundabout, provides new separate crossings for people walking and cycling in the area.

The junction design closely follows the very latest best practices and is the first of its kind in East Renfrewshire. We have therefore developed the following guidance for walking, cycling, and driving through the junction. We hope this will be of assistance to all users.

Help shape future transport plans in East Renfrewshire

To support development of East Renfrewshire’s new Local Transport Strategy we have launched a transport survey to gather community feedback to help shape future transport priorities.

On Thursday 6th October 2022, we celebrated the official opening of Phase 1 of the A77 Active Corridor. The 600 metre stretch between North Hillhead Road and the M77 overbridge is now complete and has delivered a considerably improved shared-use path. The path is now three metres wide and remains consistently on the same side of the road, with improvements to the side-road junctions also made to make them easier to cross.

The project was funded by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), designed in collaboration with Mott MacDonald, and constructed by Maclay Civil Engineering.