DRAGGING HEELS FOR CHANGE

Regarding the office block plan in Friday’s Evening Times – there are too many people dragging Glasgow’s heels in the planning department.

Just look at the architecture in the big cities of the world and you can see all we get is glass boxes – nothing bold or cutting edge design wise.

Nothing punching above the skyline to say all around – here is Glasgow, a 21st century city!

The new and old should embrace each other but Glasgow doesn’t have the vision for that sort of thinking.

Dave Smith, posted online

TRANSPORT PLANS FOR CITY

As someone old enough to remember being shoogled about on the number 29 caur up to Maryhill, I was particularly disappointed when the plans for the new system were scrapped.

More so on objections from here-today-gone-tomorrow bus companies with their old ramshackle London transport buses.

I had all the brochures at the time and thought this was a superb plan for the city.

It did stick in my craw when I read Edinburgh, with arguably one of the best transport systems in the country was getting a new system. Mind if Glasgow was to start a new tram system in the way Edinburgh did, we might be just as well without it.

Johnny Mack, posted online

OTHER CITIES CAN DO IT...

Vienna, a city larger than Glasgow, has a fully-integrated transport system where one ticket allows you to use all three modes of transport bus, tram, underground to complete your journey.

Richard Davis, posted online

CROSSRAIL IS BEST OPTION

The Crossrail project is by far the most feasible.

Most of the infrastructure is already there, including the bridge over the Clyde.

The trackbed is also (presumably) still there – unless it has been build over by now.

Richard Davis, posted online