WITH her advocation of cycling as a means of transportation and leisure pursuit with health benefits, which I don’t disagree with, I’m curious what her party’s policies were on the budgets and strategy for road funding and usage (Kim Long, The Green View, May 23)? How much of the block budget actually goes on the roads? What has her party done to protect and develop a national asset? The very roads she’s wanting us to use for bikes are pot-holed embarrassments.
I recall an exchange with Glasgow City Council not long after they resurfaced a badly needed road by Anniesland College, then promptly cut the road surface, installing speed tables. Thus creating a plane of weakness for water ingress and more potholes. The reply I got was the usual doublespeak mumbojumbo that sapped my will to live, yet I was obliged to pay for. I was more concerned about avoiding having to spend £100 on a new (unbranded) tyre.
So, she wishes to avoid kids ending up under a bus, which I believe, but what about the other cyclists? What about a driver trying to avoid a pothole and hitting someone because of the condition of the surface?
I’m seeking to hear what her party’s spending policies are on the protection of our roads, which belong to the people of the UK, used by cars, vans, buses, cyclists. And if not, where did they want the money to go?
Graham
Via email
IS this going to happen in Scotland? Pubs opening up for take-away pints – but people will stand next to it instead of going away. Has the law changed so we can drink in the street? Hope not, but you will get people ordering pint after pint or whatever and probably no social distancing. They should not be copying England, and I can see the police having a busy time.
D Lambert
Glasgow
I LIKE the idea of pubs and restaurants being able to expand on to the traffic-free streets to overcome the social distancing obstacles that many would have when they are allowed to reopen later this year. Why not take advantage of all the narrow streets and lanes in the city centre such as Drury Lane, which has a few well-known pubs and clubs.
It could create a more continental-type look to the city centre and also keep people safe?
MA
Glasgow
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