Glasgow readies for UCI World Cycling Championships with intensive road repair programme
- 9 months ago
GLASGOW. Great Western Road.
Glasgow readies for UCI World Cycling Championships.
An intensive road repair programme, including road closures, is under way in the city. Great Western Road is currently closed for 7 days for resurfacing.
August’s UCI Cycling World Championships will be the biggest event of its kind, drawing the eyes of a billion TV viewers.
The UCI event attracts the world’s best riders, including two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar, 24, of Slovenia.
He is among the hot favourites for the men’s road race that takes in a 170-mile course between Edinburgh and Glasgow – the host city for the championships.
The championships will run from August 3 to 13, featuring 13 UCI World Championships in a mega event in Glasgow and across Scotland. It brings together road riding, mountain biking, road cycling, velodrome, indoor cycling, and BMX and para world championship races.
Seven thousand potholes were reported to Glasgow City Council in the first two months of 2023 alone, causing the local council to double its budget for road repairs to £12million. It blamed the potholes on bad weather.
A spokesman said: “No specific funding has been set aside for road repairs ahead of our hosting of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships.
“If there is remedial carriage repair work to be carried out, or potholes identified on the route before the championships, they will be fixed as part of the council’s business as usual roads maintenance.”
Glasgow readies for UCI World Cycling Championships.
An intensive road repair programme, including road closures, is under way in the city. Great Western Road is currently closed for 7 days for resurfacing.
August’s UCI Cycling World Championships will be the biggest event of its kind, drawing the eyes of a billion TV viewers.
The UCI event attracts the world’s best riders, including two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar, 24, of Slovenia.
He is among the hot favourites for the men’s road race that takes in a 170-mile course between Edinburgh and Glasgow – the host city for the championships.
The championships will run from August 3 to 13, featuring 13 UCI World Championships in a mega event in Glasgow and across Scotland. It brings together road riding, mountain biking, road cycling, velodrome, indoor cycling, and BMX and para world championship races.
Seven thousand potholes were reported to Glasgow City Council in the first two months of 2023 alone, causing the local council to double its budget for road repairs to £12million. It blamed the potholes on bad weather.
A spokesman said: “No specific funding has been set aside for road repairs ahead of our hosting of the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships.
“If there is remedial carriage repair work to be carried out, or potholes identified on the route before the championships, they will be fixed as part of the council’s business as usual roads maintenance.”