| Comment | I don't think it will be radically different, but there will be noticeable changes. The main thing I expect is that the city centre will be in much better shape.
If council policies continue as aimed, we'll have an expanded (and largely, though not entirely) pedestrianised zone covering about 12 city blocks, roughly between Hope Street and High Street.
With the residential construction that's already ongoing and stuff sitting either at planning or design stages, we'll have around 10,000 more people living in or very close to the city centre by 2035. Broomielaw, Cowcaddens, and the area all around Glasgow Cross are set for the heaviest development.
This'll only be good news for retail in the city centre.
It might be optimistic, but by 2035 I would like to think the bus franchising will already be in place (2030 is a reasonable timeframe for this to be up and running) with transport under a single pricing and ticketing regime.
Whether elements of the Clyde Metro will be delivered by then, I think is far from certain. If we're imagining by 2035? Maybe the line to the airport and conversion of one or two rail lines. The whole plan is very complicated and many potential developments are highly interconnected, so it could easily demand very long timescales.
There's a long way to go but there are good things happening. |
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