| Comment | I wouldn't say so, and neither would people like the Get Glasgow Moving campaign, or the folks that wrote the recent Connectivity Commission Report on behalf of Glasgow City Council.
It's a fairly non-controversial opinion that public transport in Glasgow is a mess. Granted, the services and level of coverage is there - we have a subway, a big bus network, a rail network other cities would kill for. But it's fragmented, both with planning and ticketing. Prices increase steeply if you need to use multiple transport modes, or even multiple bus companies to get from A to B. It's limiting to the city's economy (business and tourism revenues which are lost from this), and limiting to the general life opportunities of the people who live here.
There's a wide body of evidence showing poor access to public transport correlating strongly with deprivation levels. Until these UK laws are repealed, GCC can't do anything to bring the city's transport offerings under one roof (so then being able to provide genuinely good value tickets and route planning).
Repealing these awful UK laws is exactly what the Scottish Parliament ought to exist to do. We need to push for it to be done. |
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