Residents and businesses rally behind petition opposing potential parking reductions, warning of economic fallout and accessibility concerns in Glasgow’s West End.
This area has a community of students. The last thing Ashton Lane needs is another community of students. This area needs a community for all ages. You are destroying the culture that an area needs to thrive if you only pander to certain members of it. We cannot make this all about students and cyclists. We need to think of residents, business owners, tourists. My children go to Glasgow University and even they think putting 260 students into the middle of Ashton Lane is a bad idea.
“My children go to Glasgow University.. “ We live in a city Tracey, not everyone has cars and not everyone can travel to uni from their car-centric parents’ homes.
Glasgow can’t sustain this level of car-use nor the amount of land use allocated to parking. It’s time we stopped subsidising drivers just like cities such as Paris and Copenhagen. Our polluted air and sedentary lifestyles are killing us & this city needs change. 41% of people in Glasgow don’t have access to a car.
Caroline….my child lives in Ashton lane. She doesn’t use my car. My other child gets the train. This isn’t to do with my children. It’s to do with local businesses and tourists and residents of all ages and not just accommodating students. Are you suggesting that the 59% of people with a car should be ignored? We are not Paris or Copenhagen.
I wish there had been similar outcry about the block of flats they are going to build on Queen Margaret Drive right beside a much loved children's playground The Happy Park. Apart from impact the construction will have on the park and the families using the space, it will also block out light in the park and the existing properties around it.
A balance has to be reached between residents, Glasgow University can not treat Byres Rd as its domain or campus. Now they are taking away parking places on the Ashton Road Car Park and putting in more seating. I have personal experience with Alcoholics at the bench at the wall of Ashton Road car park facing Byres Rd. So no car park Gt George Street and a smaller one on Ashton Road. I have owned a business on Byres Rd and parking is essential. We do not need more cycle lanes. Charity shops have large retail units and pay no rates which has a knock on effect to other businesses as rates go up, charity shops should have smaller retail units if paying no rates. We do not need more seating at Ashton Rd we need the car park and more bus stops to help business.es and residents. Not PARTY CENTRAL and wider pavements
This area has a community of students. The last thing Ashton Lane needs is another community of students. This area needs a community for all ages. You are destroying the culture that an area needs to thrive if you only pander to certain members of it. We cannot make this all about students and cyclists. We need to think of residents, business owners, tourists. My children go to Glasgow University and even they think putting 260 students into the middle of Ashton Lane is a bad idea.
“My children go to Glasgow University.. “ We live in a city Tracey, not everyone has cars and not everyone can travel to uni from their car-centric parents’ homes.
Glasgow can’t sustain this level of car-use nor the amount of land use allocated to parking. It’s time we stopped subsidising drivers just like cities such as Paris and Copenhagen. Our polluted air and sedentary lifestyles are killing us & this city needs change. 41% of people in Glasgow don’t have access to a car.
Caroline….my child lives in Ashton lane. She doesn’t use my car. My other child gets the train. This isn’t to do with my children. It’s to do with local businesses and tourists and residents of all ages and not just accommodating students. Are you suggesting that the 59% of people with a car should be ignored? We are not Paris or Copenhagen.
I wish there had been similar outcry about the block of flats they are going to build on Queen Margaret Drive right beside a much loved children's playground The Happy Park. Apart from impact the construction will have on the park and the families using the space, it will also block out light in the park and the existing properties around it.
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A balance has to be reached between residents, Glasgow University can not treat Byres Rd as its domain or campus. Now they are taking away parking places on the Ashton Road Car Park and putting in more seating. I have personal experience with Alcoholics at the bench at the wall of Ashton Road car park facing Byres Rd. So no car park Gt George Street and a smaller one on Ashton Road. I have owned a business on Byres Rd and parking is essential. We do not need more cycle lanes. Charity shops have large retail units and pay no rates which has a knock on effect to other businesses as rates go up, charity shops should have smaller retail units if paying no rates. We do not need more seating at Ashton Rd we need the car park and more bus stops to help business.es and residents. Not PARTY CENTRAL and wider pavements