Parking at Scottish Hydro Arena Glasgow.

[The Egg Man]

I understand a major stooshie has broken out between SHAG and local residents, especially at Lancefield Quay and St Vincent Crescent regarding parking in the area.

[RapidAssistant]

I take it you mean the great and the good concert goers are parking in residents' spaces? If so hardly surprising given the SECC has long had a reputation for punitive parking charges - you can't blame people for trying to avoid them. You either don't take the car and use public transport - no real excuse there given the place is served by a railway station - or take the bus.

Or you impose a visitors parking permit system on the affected streets. Alternatively you do what they do at football matches around major stadia - the cops go round earlier in the day and put yellow cones down in all the empty spaces in nearby housing estates - they certainly do that at Murrayfield - I know cos I used to go across to Edinburgh really early in the morning and secured my spot before the b*****s came around they can't do you once you are already there. Whether they'd go to all that length for a concert venue however seems unlikely.

[The Egg Man]

Nina Baker, who is supposedly a Green councillor, is suggesting "Free parking with concert tickets ".

[RapidAssistant]

Nina Baker, who is supposedly a Green councillor, is suggesting "Free parking with concert tickets ".

something of a contradiction in terms, that one....

[Alycidon]

Park at the Science Centre and cross the bridge - £3 for a days parking compared with £6 at the SECC, and not a long walk. £3 for a SHAG must be good value in anyones book

[The Egg Man]

The latest suggestion I hear is that parking times in and around St Vincent Cres and Minerva St residents parking areas are going to be extended from 18.00 to 22.00 and a few double yellow lines painted.

I'm not entirely sure how this will improve things. A few coppers in a meter v whatever it costs to park at SECC/ Hydro plus no queueing to get out of the car park is hardly likely to sway people.

Dog knows what it'll be like come the Commie Games next year.

[bAzTNM]

Tons of parking for the Glasgow Green - River Clyde events. Calton is mostly empty for cars. Surely people can walk that far.

[The Egg Man]

Tons of parking for the Glasgow Green - River Clyde events. Calton is mostly empty for cars. Surely people can walk that far.

Can (mostly) but won't.

[Mark N]

A good article which, whilst not to do with parking, examines the wider damage the Hydro may be doing:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/c ... s.22624976

[The Egg Man]

Thanks Mark.

[banjo]

yes,thanks for flagging that up.looks like just another corporate con act.

[Lucky Poet]

Tis an interesting angle, but I'm not so sure about it doing damage to the wider music scene. I would've thought the bands that play the SHAG would've been playing the SECC instead, so there's not necessarily any loss? And a possible gain, as the new place might actually have decent acoustics.