Greenlink Cycle Path

The Greenlink project was established in 2005,[1] and was part of a 3-year partnership between many organisations, such as North Lanarkshire Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and Forestry Commission Scotland.

It by-passes the Forgewood suburb of Motherwell heading towards Braidhurst High School, and subsequently travels under the Argyle Line heading towards the new site of the Cathedral Primary School and Fir Park nursery joint campus.

The initial plans prior to formation of the path was to create a direct route from Strathclyde Park to the site of the former Ravenscraig steelworks.

Those plans were put on hold due to the delay in the regeneration of Ravenscraig, and so the link only stops at Motherwell town centre.

[6] That same year, the cycle path also received an award for Scotland's finest Woodland, presented to them by the Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Stewart Stevenson, at the Royal Highland Show.