| Comment | A better way of doing it is to prevent *through traffic* in the city centre.
This is something that's become kind of standard across mainland European cities in recent decades. To be fair, this appears to be what Glasgow City Council is planning for the longer term.
The idea being that you can still enter the city centre in a car, but through a combination of modal filters and one way systems, you can't *pass through* it to the other side. Maybe in the very centre you have a totally pedestrianised core, but oftentimes this will be 500-800 metres across, so a very walkable distance.
This means drivers are dissuaded against largely unecessary trips by vehicle, freeing up the city centre roads for private vehicle trips which are necessary. |
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