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Don't count your chickens too soon on Sauchiehall St.! How does everyone feel about the trees (£69.99 twigs) in the areas which are largely complete? Will they be mature enough in 2044 to give adequate shade to a pigeon or will they need more time to grow? It now looks like a superwide pavement which needs a road running down the middle of it to give it a purpose. Why did they not stretch the western mixed use theme (crummy and confused though it is) down to at least Wellington Street (for southbound ) and Hope Street (for northbound) and take traffic off Rose Street & Blysthwood Street etc. where the trafficked Sauchiehall St. currently ends. Having said which, there really is little of value on Sauchiehall Street now, though its a good stage for a end of war movie set in Dresden perhaps. I do however relish the world class lighting display coming to Sauchiehall Street according to the council designer I spoke to 2 years ago. She told me people will be coming in from across Scotland just to see her lights in the new Sauchiehall St. - dream on! Lights on, but nobody at home.

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