WORK is to begin late this month on the Sauchiehall precinct and Cambridge Street avenue project in Glasgow.
The £5.7 million project will connect the Sauchiehall avenue at Rose Street and stretch to West Nile Street, with the connecting Cambridge Street avenue linking to Cowcaddens Road.
Forming part of a wider project to create avenues throughout the city centre, the avenues act as ‘people-focussed, attractive, safe, sustainable, and easily-maintained’ routes throughout the centre and are being delivered via the Glasgow city region city deal.
Glasgow City Council said that works, which are being led by Maclay Civil Engineering, on the latest avenue will deliver a ‘significant’ improvement in the public realm on Cambridge Street and the bottom of Sauchiehall Street. Roads, pavements and footways on the streets will be reconstructed, with new kerbing, traffic signals, 40 new street trees, rain gardens, and street lighting features of the work.
Preparatory work – trial pits and site set-up – has now begun, and the Sauchiehall Precinct & Cambridge Street avenue will be completed towards the end of the summer of 2024, the local authority added.
Councillor Susan Aitken, leader of Glasgow City Council and chair of the Glasgow city region cabinet, added, “The work soon to begin on the latest avenue in the city centre will help to bring an improved environment on both Cambridge Street and the bottom of Sauchiehall Street. These streets will form part of the avenue network across the city centre that will not only make the area more attractive for everyone in it but also make it easier for people to get around as they walk, wheel and cycle.”
