| Comment | If it serves hundreds of thousands of residents who have limited transport options and allows for likely millions of new trips by public transport a year, then yes. There's an imperative to do it.
The project isn't just about building a couple of nice-to-have tram lines.
It's about thoroughly upgrading Glasgow entire transport system, and bringing the city's rapid transit network up to the standard of comparator cities of similar size.
If this plan is carried forward you would have multiple new interchange nodes connecting existing suburban rail network, subway and regional rail network in a way that hasn't been done before. For this all to work as well as it can and serve as many people as it can, there will likely need to be some compulsory purchase orders.
The ideal thing to do is also construct new medium density housing around these new and enhanced network nodes. This is what is planned around West Street for example (where much of the housing is already being constructed as part of a separate long term neighbourhood regeneration project). But there are plenty of other opportunities too where the planned metro network rubs up against brownfield land. |
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