| Comment | It should be made more difficult to drive in the city centre though. The council's strategy is to make it a much more pleasant place to walk, shop, live, and generally to spend time.
Key to this is removing unecessary traffic from surface roads inside the city centre. It isn't just Glasgow doing this - cities across the world have realized (very late in the day) that you don't create habitable, liveable cities by welcoming thousands and thousands of unecessary car journeys.
On street parking is a terrible, inefficient use of space, which could be used used for so much more: pedestrianised areas, trees and greenery, cycle lanes, space for benches and outdoor hospitality. All things which actually boost spending.
You can still park close to the city centre in the abundance of multistorey car parks. Or take a bus or train.
The changes are simply about making the city centre's core a more liveable, prosperous place, as has been done in dozens and dozens of cities in mainland Europe already over the last few decades. |
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