PEDESTRIANS have welcomed plans to tackle pollution in Glasgow after Hope Street was ranked the worst in Scotland.

Environmental group, Friends of the Earth Scotland, analysed official 2017 air pollution data and revealed that the street was yet again ranked Scotland’s dirtiest. Dumbarton Road was also high on the list.

With these results in mind, a Low Emission Zone will be launched in Glasgow by the end of this year.

It's aim is to restrict the most polluting busses, vans and lorries by the end of this year, and for cars and taxis to be restricted by 2020.

Pat McLaughlin, 70, and his wife Joyce, 73, live in Carntyne and said it could be a "massive problem" for future generations.

Pat said: “The amount of traffic going up and down this street and the ones next to it is completely out of order.

“We’ve just become used to it, and accepted it, and that’s not right.

“Maybe this isn’t a problem for us – we’re in our 70s, we’ll be gone in 10, 15 years anyway!

“But for the generations after us it’s a massive problem.”

Megan McLeish, 20, of Livingston, said she could tell the difference in air quality when not in the city.

She said: “I can definitely tell the difference when I go to my mum’s in West Lothian.

“Just walking around outside, you can tell when you breathe in – it’s bad.

“I think the more of Glasgow that can be pedestrianized the better.”

Mark Rodgers, 19, who is originally from Texas, said: “I live out in the suburbs back at home in the US, and the difference between there and here in Glasgow is huge.

Jim Downs, 72, and his wife, Beatrice, 75, are from East Kilbride.

Jim said: “Certainly when we come into Glasgow we notice the difference.

“It’s too late to doing about it now for us, but for youngsters it could prove a problem.

“If there are more electric and less polluting cars then it will be a good thing.”

Callum Marshall, 21, of Scarborough, said: “My flat is next to Argyle Street and its windows have to be cleaned regularly because they soon turn black from all the smoke coming from the motorway.

“I’m from the countryside in Yorkshire, there’s no motorway nearby and it’s so fresh.

But whenever I go back into the city there’s a smell – the air’s muggy and heavy.”

John Ruddy, 69, of King’s Park, said: “On Hope Street it is very bad.

"Hopefully the government are doing something about it – and if not, they should be.”