| Comment | Shoppers have two main options:
* Drive downtown, which is going to take a long time and will cost an arm and a leg in parking. Take the bus downtown, which is going to cost a fortune if you're taking the whole family.
* Drive to an out-of-town shopping centre that's next to an expressway and has free (or close to free) parking.
If Glasgow wants more people to go downtown, they have to seriously restrict parking and driving to out-of-town shopping centres and/or make public transport seriously cheaper. This has been proven again and again - the quality or type of shops on a high street or city centre don't matter. What kills a high street is out-of-town shopping centres that are convenient for the motoring public.
For those of you not in the know, there's a new shopping centre being built opposite the Riverside Museum. It will have more than 1300 parking spaces and the developers expect 73% of customers to get there by car. That's what is threatening the Glasgow city centre, not John Lewis or Cineworld or anything in Edinburgh. [https://twitter.com/f0rmat/status/1223346079837708288](https://twitter.com/f0rmat/status/1223346079837708288) |
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