THE official opening of the new Glasgow College Riverside Campus (“Importance of college education in clear focus as Sturgeon opens Glasgow’s £228m supercampus”, The Herald, October 27) brought with it a sense of déjà vu, particularly coming so soon after the opening of the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
This sense of being here before was not brought on by the usual dignitaries and ubiquitous cameras clicking but rather, once again a major venue has been created without due thought to the traffic impacts which come with it. Some 10,000 students and staff are now to be directed to an area already populated by the busiest court in Europe, the nation’s procurator fiscal's office, the biggest Islamic centre in Scotland, the Citizens Theatre, a city wide sports centre, the biggest bus depot in the UK and of course the people who actually live there – all competing to find a parking space.
The City Union Line is the live but currently underutilised railway at the core of the Crossrail project and passes alongside the new college. It is about time that Transport Scotland buried its ideological agenda and stood down from its resistance to Crossrail which would include a new station 500 metres away behind the Citizens. Even bringing this in after the event would provide a valuable addition to the local and national rail network and show that perhaps the powers that be can learn from their mistakes rather than simply repeat them.
William Forbes,
23 Greenlees Park, Cambuslang.
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