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(LEZ) will substantially ameliorate the former by reducing harmful vehicle pollution, it will not solve the problem of vehicle traffic in the city centre and its dominance over other modes. Some form of vehicle restraint is required.”
■■■■Glasgow City Council actively engages with the Vacant and Derelict Land Commission to bring dead spaces back into productive use.
■■■■The repurposing of Glasgow’s roads grid to prioritise pedestrians, active travel and public transport should be aligned with and support the Council’s policy to repopulate the city centre.
■■■■The completion of a network of safe, high quality, segregated cycling arterial routes connecting the city centre to suburbs and peripheral neighbourhoods and segregated cycling corridors through the city centre.
■■■■A partnership is created between Glasgow City Council and taxi associations which drives improvements in service standards and better strategic placement of taxi ranks.
The Commission wants a new partnership between Glasgow City Council and bus operators to accelerate journey time, improve the fleet quality, ticketing and customer information offering a multi-operator cheapest day saver, and half price fares
for apprentices and people under 19 years old. More controversially, the
recommendations suggested local authorities in Scotland should be given the powers in the Scottish Transport Bill to introduce non-residential parking charges, and Glasgow City Council should lead by example and review whether Council workers should be given free or subsidised car parking. The Commission included Anne
Ledgerwood, General Manager of St. Enoch Centre; Iain Docherty, Professor of Public Policy and Governance at University of Glasgow; Damien Henderson, Media Affair Manager for Virgin Trains; Ross Martin, an independent adviser; Gareth Williams, Head of Policy at SCDI; and Bill Reeve, Director of Rail for Transport Scotland, as an observer. Also on the Commission was
Glasgow Chamber Chief Executive Stuart Patrick, who said: “We welcome
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the report as a thoughtful contribution to the policy and investment required to improve the city centre, drive footfall and increase job opportunities. We recognise the emphasis on the improvement of the bus offering as, at a time of skills shortages, it is important that people can get to work in an efficient and dignified manner. “We support the request for the
acceleration of the Avenues project, which would certainly improve pedestrian experience, and given the challenge of online retail and out of town shopping, we welcome the acknowledgement of the need for an even playing field for the city centre. “But most of all we welcome the report’s findings that there is no case for a congestion charge, that there is no evidence to support the introduction of non-residential parking charges and Professor Begg’s statement that it is Glasgow’s turn for investment in transport infrastructure.”
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