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i wouldnt necessarily object to it just being completely open. i would like to at least be *something*. at the moment it seems to commit to nothing and you get the worst of both worlds. its not nice enough to sit in as you would a park and its not particularly nice to walk through either because of the awkward layout as you mention. every time i walk through it i just feel a desperate urge to get from one side to the other as soon as possible

i definitely think it should be almost entirely pedestrianised regardless of whats done with its actual layout. its literally strangled by traffic. maybe just leave george st open, cut st vincent between there and west nile street, cut queen street down to the goma, make dundas street an actual navigable street for taxi/car station dropoffs, and put in a more elaborate station dropoff facility for taxis and buses at the corner of cathedral street and north hanover street (i think something like that may already be in the queen street station redevelopment i dont remember; i know theyre doing something with cathedral st anyway). then, im pretty sure if you just ripped out everything bar the statues and made it completely flat, it would look incredible. also, since im already getting ahead of myself, we could always have both a park AND a square if you level everything in that block that has that george house eyesore and that people make glasgow even-more-eyesore in it, and put turf down. it was all (or mostly?) like that as late as the early 80s