| Comment | The Buchanan Galleries car park will go in all likelihood, as part of the plan to redevelop much of the site of BG with an open, walkable street plan.
Getting rid of the car park will be an important part of this, as currently it's a major physical barrier to connecting everything north of that point to the city core. With Sighthill nearly completed and more development likely around that area, making North Hanover Street an attractive boulevard which connects to Buchanan Street more directly will become more important.
That said, there's tonnes of parking provision around the city centre. Loads to spare.
The Connectivity Commission report in 2019 highlighted that the existing multistorey car parks dotted around the city centre are dramatically underused, with a minimum of 6,000 free spaces available even at peak times.
There's plenty of capacity to play around with parking availability in the city in order to make improvements to the streetscape. |
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