| Comment | So they're probably not necessarily meaning obvious stuff like museums, parks, etc, although that will be part of what they mean.
The bigger picture involves other costs that are accrued by serving high volumes of single occupancy vehicles in cities, all of which apply to Glasgow:
* increased road maintenance costs (caused by wear and the large land surface area utilised for vehicle movements: Glasgow having the *highest percentage of city centre surface area taken up by roads anywhere in the UK*.)
* Negative revenue impacts on buses and other connected transit modes. Congestion stifles bus service levels, meaning higher subsidy costs.
* The cost impact of on-street parking, connected to the earlier point about use of city centre surface area space. Space used to facilitate the movement and storage of single use vehicles is space which isn't either: housing someone, providing amenity space, or providing taxable revenue (i.e. by a bar or cafe with outdoor seating). |
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