IT is crucial that our city centres survive and we need to attract more people to both live and shop in them, but we won’t do that by getting more cars coming in ("We need more people to be at home in the city centre", The Herald, May 14). They clog our streets, delay buses, hamper people from walking around, create pollution and then their drivers have the nerve to complain about a short-term rent of public space on which to leave their vehicles.
We need radical steps to improve our bus services, as well as our Subway in Glasgow and our train services. Making bus services to city centres, such as Glasgow, free on Sundays would be a fine way to start.
Patricia Fort
15 Lanark Street, Glasgow.
I FULLY concur with Ken Sutherland (Letters, May 14) regarding the condition and appearance of Glasgow Central low level station and add Queen Street low level to the equation.
The latter will hopefully feature in some betterment allied to the on-going work "upstairs" with the necessity, as I see it, of escalators to both platforms long overdue in provision.
As to its decor, which could be brightened up surely, something done to hide/cover up the filth-encrusted, long-abandoned island platform and its supporting pillars for the station above.
John Macnab,
175 Grahamsdyke Street, Laurieston, Falkirk,
KEN Sutherland is once more on the right tracks. The hamster cage from Finnieston to the SECC is nothing less than a national disgrace.
John Dunlop,
19 Wellington Lane, Ayr.
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