After a few quiet years, more details are coming out about Clyde Metro and their plans to transform transport around… Read more: Clyde Metro – will Lanarkshire lose out?
Category: places
Articles about my local area, other places in Scotland, the rest of the UK and abroad.
Alternative Hamilton Masterplan
In March 2024, South Lanarkshire Council announced plans for major redevelopment of Hamilton town centre. It’s my home town and… Read more: Alternative Hamilton Masterplan
Duke Street & John Knox Street – options for Avenues Plus
Duking it out in the East End of Glasgow. Most of the time I’ve lived in Dennistoun I’ve wanted protected… Read more: Duke Street & John Knox Street – options for Avenues Plus
Dennistoun Spaces for People trial
In December 2020, Glasgow City Council started a Spaces for People trial project in Dennistoun. The plans use short one-way… Read more: Dennistoun Spaces for People trial
Don’t let parking controls block cycling in Dennistoun
In July 2019, Glasgow City Council launched its proposal for a Restricted Parking Zone (RPZ) in Dennistoun and Royston. This… Read more: Don’t let parking controls block cycling in Dennistoun
Carving up the Meatmarket masterplan
In December 2017, plans were released for the empty site at the corner of Duke Street/Bellgrove Street in Glasgow. It… Read more: Carving up the Meatmarket masterplan
Copenhagen – whit you Dane to me
It was a Danish relative who took us to Copenhagen in summer 2009. Not literally, as he’d been dead for decades.… Read more: Copenhagen – whit you Dane to me
Glasgow festivals – looking east
I was going to write about the Commonwealth Games one year on but there was no shortage of those kind of features in the media.… Read more: Glasgow festivals – looking east