| Comment | I agree with you on those developments - big missed opportunities, whose main issue is the persistance of residential-only building, with a complete lack of mixed use, particularly along main roads - but this "20 minute neighbourhood" concept is a different thing.
It's more about re-imaging and physically redesigning the urban realm to make it easier to active travel between different parts of "one neighbourhood". Something which unfortunately isn't always the case for neighbourhoods across Glasgow.
Not to say that it's *impossible* to move around many neighbourhoods. But there are many, many physical barriers in place, whether that be large, borderline un-crossable roads, lack of safe cycling infrastructure, wide bellmouth junctions, anti-pedestrian metal fencing, traffic light sequences which leave pedestrians waiting for 5 minutes at a time, etc. Essentially everything that's come from 60 years of prioritising motor traffic above everything else. The "20 minute neighbourhood" movement represents a move away from that. |
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