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For some strange reason this makes me feel sad, must be a generation thing


(please excuse 1st attempt)

is this where the new road is going? anyone have the route of it?

It makes me feel sad as well, it's a pity they couldn't have incorporated it into the new plan.

One thing I'll miss is the drunken ships visitors, (not the name they used to be known by!) wandering along asking 'where's the boaaat mister'
The occasional visiting warships certainly livened the place up a bit.
Clydeport have saved themselves a few bob in dredging costs, but another bit of history has gone. Some how a minesweeper at the Tower isn't the same as a destroyer at the Quay

Luco wrote:is this where the new road is going? anyone have the route of it?

Mori wrote:

Seems to be missing the cycle path, and when I was having
a wee nosey around it looked like the beginnings/remnants
of a path up the Kelvin but its not on that map.

Seems to be missing the cycle path, and when I was having
a wee nosey around it looked like the beginnings/remnants
of a path up the Kelvin but its not on that map.

The continuation of the Kelvin Way down to the Clyde has been 'proposed', but the Tesco's Monolith if it goes ahead might make this about as attractive as a walk through a retail park.

attractive as a walk through a retail park.

It is going to be a retail park. Thats all these new places are, some supermarkets and a bunch of shiny flats. Apologies for my cynicism...

Agree totally with Vladimir. All we ever get now is glass and steel arranged for the functional use of the retail trade. With flats that are outwith the financial reach of most who work in the associated retail developments.


Neo-liberal gentrification gone mad.


John

Vladimir wrote:

attractive as a walk through a retail park.

It is going to be a retail park. Thats all these new places are, some supermarkets and a bunch of shiny flats. Apologies for my cynicism... ::):

Your cynicism was expected

We should make use of the river, rather than turning our backs on it. It's a crying shame that so much industry has gone, and I'm sure that, with innovation, some could remain.

I've already said on here that I'd hate that Tesco to be built, and I totally agree that there are far too many retail parks already. Surely saturation point isn't far off? Even in the city centre, the Sauchiehall St centre is all but gone and St Enoch's is pretty crappy, it seems a bit short sighted to keep building more in the suburbs.

it seems a bit short sighted to keep building more in the suburbs.

Its the only thing the council can do to 'regenerate' the city. Build more and more...

Vladimir wrote:

it seems a bit short sighted to keep building more in the suburbs.

Its the only thing the council can do to 'regenerate' the city. Build more and more...

Ooops, maybe that was unclear - I meant build more retail parks.

I think it'd be better if smaller independent retailers were encouraged to grow instead of plonking down a "supermarket in a box"

Regeneration isn't a bad idea in itself - it's necessary in some places cos they didn't do the planning job well enough in the first place.

I meant build more retail parks.

That is what I understood.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5193656.stm

The yards are doing OK at the moment, which is good news!

more retail parks ??? :) the one that got built at the corner of helen street behind asda still has all three units empty the kfc seems to be doing a roaring trade tho.....give the local neds and sengas something to work for i guess ,either a job in mcdonalds or kfc