| Comment | Entirely fair. It is frustrating!
We live in different times though and it's hard to compare the two. The subway circle was built in an era with a fairly carefree attitude towards health & safety or environmental considerations (I mean consideration of the impact on the existing local built environment, not emissions). If I remember correctly there were regular accidents during construction of the tunnels and even a handful of worker deaths.
That was also at a time when money was *absolutely swilling around* Glasgow and the British Isles. Glasgow was a manufacturing hub at the core of a global empire, and experiencing economic and population growth almost unparalleled anywhere else, except for a few similar highly industrialised cities like St Louis, Chicago or major capitals like Paris, London, Vienna or Moscow.
On it taking 20+ years: it really shouldn't take that long to deliver the first line, whatever that may be. Conceivably a relatively simple airport tram route via AMIDS, Renfrew, QEUH, Govan to the centre could be done in 6-10 years, probably delivered in phases like Edinburgh's has been. 20-30 years, and the overall 35 year timeline would be for the delivery of the full network. |
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