is reopening. Guardian featuremakes it sound fab!
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Glasgow Transport Museum
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Posted 13 years ago #
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-13608109
They are encouraging visitors to not arrive by car, so presume there will be lots of bike parking. There's even a ferry.
Riverside Museum: Scotland's Museum of Transport and TravelPosted 13 years ago # -
There are bicycle racks to secure up to 28 bikes and these are located close to the Museum.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I hope 28 isn't enough - but it is Glasgow.
Posted 13 years ago # -
And i'm sure Ruggtomcat or Kaputnic will tell you what a lovely ride it is along NCN 75.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Cyclists can enjoy a pleasant ride to Riverside Museum along the coast-to-coast National Cycle Route 75 that runs from Gourock to Leith passing through Glasgow's City Centre and along the Clydeside.
Large parts of it are anything but "pleasant"...
Posted 13 years ago # -
Opens tomorrow
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from 21 JUNE 2011 opening hours will be: Monday to Thursday and Saturday 10am–5pm, Friday and Sunday 11am–5pmSky Ride Glasgow - Sunday 11 September
Now in its 3rd year, Glasgow's family cycling event will extend its reach to the new museum. Cycle to and from Riverside Museum via Glasgow Green, enjoying the sights along the way.
Danny Macaskill Demo - Saturday 24 September
See BMX stars Danny Macaskill and The Clan display their breathtaking skills and gravity-defying stunts agains the stunning backdrop of the new museum.
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Posted 13 years ago # -
I will have to pay it a visit soon! Might give it a few weeks to quieten down though.
Posted 13 years ago # -
hi all ! my cumputers got terminal illness, so i am using my phone, which means i cant see all links, but can snyone tell me, does the new museum have an entrsnce fee or is it, off the people and free ?
Posted 13 years ago # -
Free for lorry drivers and members of the public.
Posted 13 years ago # -
thanks ! btw...just cause i drive a lorry dosnt mean i am a lorry driver !ride home tonight looks like a joy !:)
Posted 13 years ago # -
don't worry splitshift we know you're a cyclist at heart, but you do a fine job of convincing the rest of us that not all lorry drivers despise us. i think chdot was just trying to acknowledge that important role you fill :)
Posted 13 years ago # -
" i think chdot was just trying to acknowledge that important role you fill :)"
I think so too.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Huge car park, for this site and cut off by A814 from main bus routes (which used to pass the road end for the old museum with a bus every minute during the day)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Went yesterday.
We parked outside the old museum because the Expressway was full of cars waiting to get in. This meant we used the Expressway underpass to gain access. There are three bikes on the mural. A man in a top hat on an Ordinary has a cable actuated brake. The other two bikes have their chains on the left hand side.
Almost all of the bikes are hanging off the ceiling where you can barely see them. You can tell they are bikes but that's about all.
Most of the ships are in one big case and for about half of them you can see the bottom of the hull but not the deck.
Most of the cars are on a Wall of Cars so you can see the bottom tier but above that you can see the suspension and inside of the wheel arches.
There was already a leak which resulted in a bucket on the floor inside the back door.
It's nice being beside the river.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"We parked outside the old museum because the Expressway was full of cars waiting to get in."
Posted 13 years ago # -
I wasn't keen to go yesterday, I'd been planning to leave it till the second half of July, but the memsahib insisted.
On the plus side I did get a nice lunch in a real Italian cafe. There is a reconstructed one in the museum but I used a fully functioning establishment in Byre's Rd. They don't seem to care about it being a museum piece and neither do I.
Posted 13 years ago # -
How far is the new museum from the old one? One of the best things about the old one was the very good indian restaurants nearby! i thought it had moved a long way, but the parking discussions suggest now. i am confused (and don't know glasgow that well)
Posted 13 years ago # -
It's about 10-15 minutes walk away.
From the front door of the old one walk south up to the end of Bunhouse Rd and turn right to head west along Old Dumbarton Rd. Bear left into Ferry Rd. Keep going until you get to the Express way. Turn right down to the underpass. Walk along the side of the Kelvin, under the Express way and you're there.
Is the restaurant the Banana Leaf?
Posted 13 years ago # -
thanks!
was thinking of Mother India
Posted 13 years ago # -
New from old -
http://glasgow.cyclestreets.net/journey/856942
Open Street Map doesn't seem to have caught up, which is a bit disappointing.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I'm going to try out the Banana Leaf today, I meant to go a year and half ago but there were complications.
Another thing which annoyed the memsahib was the cycle route painted on the pavement between Bunhouse Rd and the river. Boys were at risk from people on full suspension machines wearing all the "safety" kit the could find in the shop. Number 3 son was actually hit by one.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Tomtom doesn't know about the new "museum" either.
It does sort of know about the M74 extension. It appears on the screen when you go past it on the M8. I'll try updating it tomorrow and see it has turned into a real road.
Of course Tomtom doesn't know about our street and we've lived here for two years.
Posted 13 years ago # -
http://www.travelinescotland.com/journeyplanner does know where "Transport Museum, Glasgow" is.
Bizarrely it doesn't know about "Queen Street Station Glasgow"!!
Random suggestions -
Doesn't seem to know about the special bus from George Square.
Posted 13 years ago # -
We may have to go there too, as we are big fans of dosas. thanks for the tip!
Posted 13 years ago # -
There were lots of classic busses running yesterday. They usually come from Bridgeton
Posted 13 years ago # -
programme on bbc 2 about this now (and presumably on catchiup later)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Had a big dosa in the Banana Leaf. It was strangely delicious and not like normal Scottish Indian restaurants. One of the friends I went with has spent the last two years in Sri Lanka and India and she loved it. We will be back before she goes away again in August.
I caught the tail end of the Riverside show when I turned over for Newsnight, I'll get it on iPlayer later.
Posted 13 years ago # -
OpenStreetMap / Cyclestreets should now (soon) have an update for the Riverside museum and M74.
:-)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Well done.
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