RECENT correspondents have commented on various aspects of travel.
I agree with William Forbes (Letters, January 22) that the sophisticated new South Glasgow University Hospital will attract patients and healthcare staff frae a' the airts, but I am not convinced that public transport will ever be their chosen means of getting there.
This is not the point-to-point travel that is so well served by high frequency buses, Fastlink or whatever, since few of us live near enough to the requisite hubs to find them attractive. Add in the unsocial hours worked by illnesses, injuries and health staff alike, and the only solution for many is the car.
I know that NHSGGC, Glasgow City Council and others are still trying desperately to design an infrastructure to serve the 2,000-bed behemoth, but until they wean themselves off the "green" option of dozens of empty subsidised buses further polluting Govan, and grasp the nettle of providing adequate car parking, the £842m monster will be compromised by patients not being able to get there for their appointments, or arriving to find these postponed because staff are still driving round looking for a place to park.
Four months to go and counting, chaps.
Meanwhile, Alan Stewart (Letters, January 22) bemoans the inconsistency in bus lane hours. Many of us will sympathise, and I would add two questions: If cyclists can ride in them, why does Glasgow not permit motorcyclists to use these lanes?
When did you ever see a bus delayed by a motorbike?
James Sandeman,
3 Scone Place,
Newton Mearns.
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