| Comment | There's patches which are fairly grim, but honestly overall the centre has improved so much in the last 20ish years. Granted the actual legit top class areas (Buchanan & Gordon Street; Merchant City) are islands in the grey, but I think you need to remember what the whole of the town used to look like not even that long ago.
The council has a massive regeneration plan for the city centre, already underway. Loads of individual plans and projects are in the pipeline, ranging from the "avenue" styling of Sauchiehall Street being rolled out to 16 other streets, widening of pavements to allow for outdoor cafe seating like is normal on the continent, added bus gates to limit car access (making the town more pedestrian friendly and less polluted), etc.
There's loads of notable gap sites getting filled (Candleriggs/Trongate, the King Street car park, Pitt Street, Barclays down at Tradeston), and new builds/hotels going up over the next 2 years. Whatever we think of the use of these sites (some is housing or office, but a lot is student flats or hotels) it all means the city's gonna be bustling in a few short years in a way it simply hasn't been in potentially 100 years. Think we can be hopeful about how transformed for the better the city centre will be in just 3-5 years time. |
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