Gloucestershire Cycle Spine
Gloucestershire County Council is proud to support the Cycle Hangar scheme, a new initiative bringing secure cycle parking to communities across the county. Operated by Cyclehoop, these innovative storage facilities are addressing one of the biggest barriers to cycling: worrying about your bike's safety while you're away from home.
The cycle spine will provide a continuous link between Stroud in the south and Bishop's Cleeve in the north, incorporating both Gloucester and Cheltenham. It will contribute to a significant cycling and walking network across Gloucestershire, improving the quality and connectivity of cycle and walking facilities delivered to date.
The cycle spine will support a Greener Gloucestershire and help reduce carbon emissions. It will also enable improvements to public health and wellbeing through active travel and make it easier and safer for people to cycle and walk to work, homes and transport hubs.
In addition, the cycle spine will make cycling and other sustainable travel options more appealing. This will help to get people out of their cars and improve the impact of traffic in the area. The scheme will ultimately provide direct access to over half the county’s population in the most populous Severn Vale region. It also reflects the council’s highest priority cycle and walking scheme, as identified in the Gloucestershire Local transport plan (PDF, 10.6 MB).
The route also offers an alternative to people’s daily commute, connecting communities, public transport hubs, workplaces, places of education, Cheltenham and Gloucester city centres, including Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, University of Gloucestershire campuses and Gloucester college.
Gloucestershire Cycle Spine - individual schemes
The programme is comprised of a number of schemes, which together create the Gloucestershire Cycle Spine. These are all in different stages of development and delivery. Find out more about each scheme:
Gloucester to Stroud Cycle Route - more information coming soon
Find out more
As well as all the latest information being available on the scheme webpages above, you can stay up to date with what's happening by signing up to our Gloucestershire Cycle Spine email bulletin
We have also put together a video which gives an overview of our overall aims and ambitions for the cycle spine, along with the numerous benefits it will deliver: