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GLASGOW ANDY SYMINGTON 00--title-contents-pk-gla1.inddtitle-contents-pk-gla1.indd 1 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:23:550:23:55 AM Contents Plan Your Trip 4 Welcome to Glasgow ..........4 Top Sights ............................6 Eating .................................10 Drinking & Nightlife ..........12 Shopping ............................14 Entertainment ...................16 Activities ............................18 Architecture & Design ............................20 Tours .................................. 22 Festivals & Events............ 24 For Kids ............................. 25 LGBT .................................. 26 Museums & Galleries .......27 Four Perfect Days ............28 Need to Know ...................30 Glasgow Neighbourhoods .............. 32 Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow Cross (p90) SKULLY/SHUTTERSTOCK © 00--title-contents-pk-gla1.inddtitle-contents-pk-gla1.indd 2 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:24:170:24:17 AM Explore Survival Glasgow 35 Guide 143 Central Glasgow................37 Before You Go ................ 144 East End ............................ 59 Arriving in Glasgow ........145 Merchant City ...................77 Getting Around .............. 146 Southside Essential Information .....148 & the Clyde ...................... 101 West End ..........................115 Special Features Glasgow Cathedral ..........60 City Chambers ..................78 Riverside Museum .........102 Glasgow Science Centre................105 University of Glasgow ... 120 00--title-contents-pk-gla1.inddtitle-contents-pk-gla1.indd 3 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:24:180:24:18 AM Welcome to Glasgow DisarminglyDisarmingly blendblendinging sophissophisticationtication anandd earthinearthinessess,, SSccototland’sland’s biggestbiggest citycity iiss one of BritaiBritain’sn’s most intrigintriguing.uing. GlasgowGlasgow is a good-timegood-time towntown behindbehind a sober facade.facade. Upright, handsomehandsome Victorian buildingsbuildings have beebeenn subverted: offbeat basement bars sit under lawyers’ offices, churches become galleries, restaurants occupy former trade guilds. The combina- tion of edgy urbanity, underdog solidarity and the residents’ legendary friendliness is totally captivating. 01--welcome-to-pk-gla1.inddwelcome-to-pk-gla1.indd 4 111/10/20181/10/2018 33:07:07:07:07 AM University of Glasgow (p120) THE VERTICAL VIEW LTD/SHUTTERSTOCK © 01--welcome-to-pk-gla1.inddwelcome-to-pk-gla1.indd 5 111/10/20181/10/2018 33:07:11:07:11 AM 6 Top Sights CLAUDIO DIVIZIA/SHUTTERSTOCK © DIVIZIA/SHUTTERSTOCK CLAUDIO Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Glasgow Cathedral Grand Gothic church; atmospheric cemetery. p60 02--top-sights-pk-gla1.inddtop-sights-pk-gla1.indd 6 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:27:350:27:35 AM 7 ELIZABETH LEYDEN/ALAMY © LEYDEN/ALAMY ELIZABETH Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life & Art Inspiringly cross-cultural survey of religion. p64 02--top-sights-pk-gla1.inddtop-sights-pk-gla1.indd 7 110/12/20180/12/2018 110:27:410:27:41 AM.

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Gobike High Street Saltmarket Action Plan Comments 010518
Dana Duffy PO Box 15175, Glasgow, G4 9LP Development and Regeneration Services Glasgow City Council. e-mail: [email protected] 231 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RX web: www.gobike.org By e-mail to: [email protected] Ref: TF/D6 Cc: Councillor Angus Millar, [email protected] 01 May 2018 Dear Ms Duffy, THE GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL, High Street/Saltmarket Action Plan We have been made aware of the current consultation for the High Street and Saltmarket and are grateful for the opportunity to comment. We have made our members and supporters aware of the consultation and we understand that a significant number of them have responded to the on-line survey. However, many of the questions there are not applicable to an active travel campaign group such as GoBike and thus we offer the following comments: It is important that the High Street and Saltmarket are revitalised and shops, cafes and businesses are attracted to the area but the street environment must be radically improved to encourage people to walk and cycle along the street and spend time there. Currently the street is a four-lane highway with cars, vans, buses travelling through. So what must be done? The pavements must be widened and their surface improved, with unnecessary street furniture removed, to encourage people to walk and window shop, perhaps even sit outside a cafe. Cycle lanes must be introduced; people already cycle along the street, dodging the parked vehicles and those that are speeding and their journeys will be made less hazardous by the provision of cycle lanes.
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