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> But the city and country as a whole needs a look at itself and deciding where to go and what can be done to improve itself.

At the end of the day its a very small handful of people who decide these things.

> new spaces for uses the city needs.

I think that's the whole issue though, we don't know what to do with these buildings and no businesses are currently interested in moving into them, or funding any developments. Just look at the big new buildings south of the river. Barclays clearly didn't fancy repurposing historic buildings in the city centre and opted to build a bunch of new ones in Tradeston instead. Good for Tradeston in a way, but it doesn't look great for the city centre. But I don't think bulldozing the place is a suitable solution. Much of it is still perfectly fine.

> no decent links to the airport from city centre.

Well there is the M8. Even if you don't drive there are buses from Queen St/Central and it's a cheap enough taxi. We might not have the best airport to city centre links on the planet but it's not that bad is it? Honestly I think most cities I've been (that are comparable in size to Glasgow) the airport links are a similar deal.

Your bigger cities; London, New York, Berlin etc. typically have their multiple airports fully integrated with their trains and underground services, but I don't know if that's a realistic expectation for us, especially considering how much work would have to be done to achieve it. And they already destroyed Charing Cross to put the M8 in, literally flattened it right through the middle and put in the fastest type of road we can have, straight to the airport. It might not be perfect but it was a pretty major step to take to improve city links. What more could be done without further destroying the city? It serves as a painful lesson to why we shouldn't rush through major changes to the city like that.

Maybe put in a train station after Paisley St James, but is that going to be faster than the bus on the motorway? The [website](https://www.glasgowairport.com/to-and-from/bus/) claims the bus takes 15 minutes, whereas a train from Paisley takes 20-25 minutes. Perhaps linking the airport to the already busy Paisley line isn't ideal either.

> the roads and infrastructure is crumbling

The last few months there have been some amount of late night road works going on around the outskirts of the city centre; Charing Cross, Anderston, Broomielaw, the M8, the M77; it's been annoying with them all happening at once but it shows something is being done to keep on top of these things. Could you name somewhere that the roads are notably better? Seems like everyone complains about their roads.


> it's worse by the day, grass left uncut. Metal left to rust and rot, doors to service cupboards burst open and never fixed. It's wee things like that that start to cause decline but by bit.

See I've not noticed much of that but I do agree things like that need to be kept on top of.


I'm not saying there's no work to be done, I'm just saying I think some of these issues are being blown out of proportion.