"Read what we think about the transport plans for the Commonwealth games coming to Glasgow in 2014."
http://www.transformscotland.org.uk/glasgow-commonwealth-games-2014.aspx
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"what we think about the transport plans for the Commonwealth Games"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I read it a couple of times. But couldn't quite work out what it was getting at. I managed to count Transform Scotland referring to itself 10 times in the third person. I think the press-releasey language just annoyed me. I'll look again, perhaps there's a valid point in there somewhere.
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multi-modal day ticket for Glasgow. Maybe good? When I was a student there I noticed that one quarter of the underground from Buchanan Street to Hillhead was always chock a block but if you went the other way for 3/4 of the Circle it took a little longer but was never busy. Some of the stations had very narrow platforms that were quite sloping with trains coming at you on either side, I was always surprised more people didn't fall off. Seemed like it was never intended for these stations to have many passengers. When I was a wee boy going to Govan with my granny, the lights used to go out in the carriages. This was pre-clockwork orange but after electricity was introduced.
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It was electrified by 1935.
I think a lot of the neighbourhoods it served on the south side were cleared after WWII.
West St, Shields Rd and Bridge St are fairly empty areas now. My uncle went to Scotland St School but nobody lives round there anymore.
Brompton went to see Tin Drum at the GFT last night and for the first time ever in the 10 years I've been taking it there a member of staff mentioned that I had a bike with me. She asked if I needed somewhere special to put it. Up till last night the staff were too cool to even notice.
It's just been to see Source Code at the Showcase. Not such a great film but the Brompton hadn't been there before.
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YEs it was after 1935 I went to Govan with my Gran to visit Auntie Nellie who had one of those wooden cludgies where the seat went right across so weans had no where for their legs to dangle. I do believe Auntie Nellie's tenement was knocked down. No idea where my granny found auntie nellie as she was not related to us.
From your social experiment it seems Bromptons are now cool. How can this be? Did the wee boy in Tin Drum ever grow up?
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It's also possible that GFT staff have become less cool.
He decided to grow up at the end of the film... although he had been busy with some fairly adult activities before that. The film was so good they banned it in Oklahoma.
The whole thing with fake aunties is something I found interesting. I think it might be because when we were kids we couldn't just call adults by their first name so a friend of the family had to have auntie/uncle added to them.
Some of my cousins have dropped the auntie/uncle when referring to real relatives but I haven't managed that even though only one of them signs their email auntie Mary. Well... I only have one auntie Mary but you see what I mean.
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A bit pedantic perhaps, but a "full multi-modal day ticket for Glasgow" does already exist. It is called a Daytripper Ticket. Details at:
http://spt.co.uk/tickets/daytripper.aspx
It is a bit pricey at £10,20 for an adult and up to two children, but it covers the whole of Strathclyde as well as Glasgow City. Obviously, the Zonecard ticket provides weekly, monthly and annual multi-modal ticketing within Glasgow and Strathclyde - just not a day ticket option.
I think it is a bit unfair to criticise SPT about multi-modal ticketing as they have provided such ticketing for years and are still clear leaders in Scotland on this.
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Strathclyde used to do scratch cards where you could buy them anytime then when you wanted to use them you scratched off that day's date. It was a pretty good deal if you lived in Ayr. They worked all the way to Ardlui.
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