| Comment | But we (not just Glasgow, but the wider western world) decided cars were the way forward. To provide maximum individual freedom.
Of course, that meant trams became stuck in growing traffic. Then the trolleybuses and buses that replaced them became stuck in traffic. Now everyone is stuck in, part of, or impacted by the presence of vehicle traffic. Two generations of planning normalcy created this situation.
Together with decisions over where to house people. In the past, Glasgow was much much denser, making public transport much more financially viable as a service.
When you disperse one third to a half of your city region's population to the outskirts and edges of the region, it becomes difficult (borderline impossible) to serve them with efficient, affordable transportation options.
We're at the relatively early stages of unpicking these catastrophic errors. It won't be easy work fixing it and it will take a long time, but we're at least beginning to reckon with it. |
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