Posted by: glamkitty, Glasgow on 12:08pm Fri 29 Aug 08
I'd be delighted if I could use the subway to get to work, but theyd have to extend it to Dennistoun first...
I'd be delighted if I could use the subway to get to work, but theyd have to extend it to Dennistoun first...
Posted by: Hoof Hearted, GlasVegas on 12:11pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Whoop dee F***ing dooooo, a free bag of cr*p to ease the pain of the inner circle being off. Maybe I can give the bag to my boss when I turn up late for work!!
Whoop dee F***ing dooooo, a free bag of cr*p to ease the pain of the inner circle being off. Maybe I can give the bag to my boss when I turn up late for work!!
Posted by: The thinking alternative, City centre on 12:29pm Fri 29 Aug 08
I'm not sure the purpose of this since I doubt anyone is unaware of the Undergrounds existance. No doubt on the free breakfast day numbers will be boosted as the 'anything for nothing' brigade use it, but unless the free breakfast is every day, this seems pretty pointless. Incidentally in Glasgow a breakfast is square sausage, bacon and egg minimum, not a banana and an apple.
I'm not sure the purpose of this since I doubt anyone is unaware of the Undergrounds existance. No doubt on the free breakfast day numbers will be boosted as the 'anything for nothing' brigade use it, but unless the free breakfast is every day, this seems pretty pointless. Incidentally in Glasgow a breakfast is square sausage, bacon and egg minimum, not a banana and an apple.
Posted by: People Power, Glasgow on 12:36pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Yet another tacky gimmick from SPT and Councillor Alistair Watsons brigade of numpties.
What doe folk really think that tourists, or anyone else from Europe & the States looking in would make of this lame way to bring commuters on board the subway.
Surely to god there has to be better ways than this to try and make people ditch their cars.
As much as I'd love to see more car drivers ditching their cars - this is certainly NOT the solution to making them do so.
Why not open the Subway far later, and longer. It's that simple. Those staff who don't want to work the new rota / shifts know where the door is. Serious investment is needed here,
[bold]Cue the maestro & expert on this topic himself - Bill Forbes.[/bold]( where are you ?)
Glasgow City Council and other environmental groups / organisations really need to push for the idea of "car sharing" and other measures which are slightly more realistic, and feasible.
Restricting the use of cars within the city centre, and cutting the huge number of multi-storey car parks within it would also help.
But - expecting people not to use their cars to work, when so many work in the city centre with all it's multi-storey car parks is just plain stupid.
SPT are not helping their credibility here ( if they've any left) they need to coem up with far more serious proposals than this.
And for gods sake, tell their staff to put a smile on their faces. As the number of SPT / Subway staff in stations who look miserable, or stressed is hardly an enticement to use the clapped out, century old, "toy town" train service.
Yet another tacky gimmick from SPT and Councillor Alistair Watsons brigade of numpties.
What doe folk really think that tourists, or anyone else from Europe & the States looking in would make of this lame way to bring commuters on board the subway.
Surely to god there has to be better ways than this to try and make people ditch their cars.
As much as I'd love to see more car drivers ditching their cars - this is certainly NOT the solution to making them do so.
Why not open the Subway far later, and longer. It's that simple. Those staff who don't want to work the new rota / shifts know where the door is. Serious investment is needed here,
Cue the maestro & expert on this topic himself - Bill Forbes.( where are you ?)
Glasgow City Council and other environmental groups / organisations really need to push for the idea of "car sharing" and other measures which are slightly more realistic, and feasible.
Restricting the use of cars within the city centre, and cutting the huge number of multi-storey car parks within it would also help.
But - expecting people not to use their cars to work, when so many work in the city centre with all it's multi-storey car parks is just plain stupid.
SPT are not helping their credibility here ( if they've any left) they need to coem up with far more serious proposals than this.
And for gods sake, tell their staff to put a smile on their faces. As the number of SPT / Subway staff in stations who look miserable, or stressed is hardly an enticement to use the clapped out, century old, "toy town" train service.
Posted by: NATSOUTNOW, glasgow on 12:46pm Fri 29 Aug 08
as usual free food to the affluent westenders
as the subway dosent reach the impoverished east end
as usual free food to the affluent westenders
as the subway dosent reach the impoverished east end
Posted by: bannatyne, Glasgow on 12:50pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Yes another window dressing gimmick by SPT. First it was performance artists juggling and clowning about in the run down stations in the name of Art. This is distract the travelling public from the creaking and groaning underfunded subway system, then it was £10K for a poet. Again you can read some poetry while you wait for your broken down train or to keep you occupied in a tunnel while some engineer does a repair job on the signallling.
Then with trumpeted fanfare they say they are spending money to upgrade the travelators. Whoopy F***ing do!!! Its like putting new windows in Linlithgow Palace (note to editor this Palace is a ruin) When oh when are SPT going to stop behaving like this Labour Government and stop the F***ing spin.
Yes another window dressing gimmick by SPT. First it was performance artists juggling and clowning about in the run down stations in the name of Art. This is distract the travelling public from the creaking and groaning underfunded subway system, then it was £10K for a poet. Again you can read some poetry while you wait for your broken down train or to keep you occupied in a tunnel while some engineer does a repair job on the signallling.
Then with trumpeted fanfare they say they are spending money to upgrade the travelators. Whoopy F***ing do!!! Its like putting new windows in Linlithgow Palace (note to editor this Palace is a ruin) When oh when are SPT going to stop behaving like this Labour Government and stop the F***ing spin.
Posted by: RapidAssistant, Glasgow on 12:54pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Sorry to use a Sydney Meriwether term here but this is indeed rearranging the deck chairs. Nothing more than a stupid publicity stunt to make us believe that SPT still has the clout that it used to have before it was made into a toothless quango by the 2005 Railways Act.
As has been said above what's the point of building park and rides when you still have to endure congested roads to get to them - like Shields Road multi-storey. (Which incidentally will be an even bigger nightmare to get to once the M74 works begin smack in the middle of that whole area.
We might never get the much mooted extensions due to lack of cash but surely decent opening hours on a Sunday, or late night running on Friday/Saturday wouldn't cost much to implement????
Sorry to use a Sydney Meriwether term here but this is indeed rearranging the deck chairs. Nothing more than a stupid publicity stunt to make us believe that SPT still has the clout that it used to have before it was made into a toothless quango by the 2005 Railways Act.
As has been said above what's the point of building park and rides when you still have to endure congested roads to get to them - like Shields Road multi-storey. (Which incidentally will be an even bigger nightmare to get to once the M74 works begin smack in the middle of that whole area.
We might never get the much mooted extensions due to lack of cash but surely decent opening hours on a Sunday, or late night running on Friday/Saturday wouldn't cost much to implement????
Posted by: Moanin Minnie, Not here on 1:16pm Fri 29 Aug 08
We might never get the much mooted extensions due to lack of cash but surely decent opening hours on a Sunday, or late night running on Friday/Saturday wouldn't cost much to implement????
You pay monkeys in bananas, don't think the staff will work for them.
We might never get the much mooted extensions due to lack of cash but surely decent opening hours on a Sunday, or late night running on Friday/Saturday wouldn't cost much to implement????
You pay monkeys in bananas, don't think the staff will work for them.
Posted by: People Power, Glasgow on 1:21pm Fri 29 Aug 08
The saddest thing of all is all the idiots who buy the stories their told from the media / papers.
Folk need to seriously question what their reading far more, and ask themselves why they continue to buy newspapers if the stories in them are mostly, if not all rhetoric, spin, & lies.
The real news is that which you hear from people on the street, and which you see with your own eyes, hear directly from the horses mouth, or happen to witness for yourself.
What for some constitutes real news anyway ?
As the crap we're reading these days in the papers says alot about what the politicians & councillors are wanting us to believe so desperately.
Give us the investment within our crumbling SPT.
Give us the truth, and transparency.
Give us the proof that the so called work is really going on behind closed doors, not just pen pushing, beurocracy, and talk-shops.
And, finally if we, the people believed in, and had faith in their councillors & politicians alike to begin with we wouldn't need newspapers desperately trying to sell us what is supposedly being done for us by our elected representatives.
I don't know who's worse for the brainwashing spin here. Just good to see so many can see right through it all, just unfortunate that some still see newsstories as the gospel truth.
The saddest thing of all is all the idiots who buy the stories their told from the media / papers.
Folk need to seriously question what their reading far more, and ask themselves why they continue to buy newspapers if the stories in them are mostly, if not all rhetoric, spin, & lies.
The real news is that which you hear from people on the street, and which you see with your own eyes, hear directly from the horses mouth, or happen to witness for yourself.
What for some constitutes real news anyway ?
As the crap we're reading these days in the papers says alot about what the politicians & councillors are wanting us to believe so desperately.
Give us the investment within our crumbling SPT.
Give us the truth, and transparency.
Give us the proof that the so called work is really going on behind closed doors, not just pen pushing, beurocracy, and talk-shops.
And, finally if we, the people believed in, and had faith in their councillors & politicians alike to begin with we wouldn't need newspapers desperately trying to sell us what is supposedly being done for us by our elected representatives.
I don't know who's worse for the brainwashing spin here. Just good to see so many can see right through it all, just unfortunate that some still see newsstories as the gospel truth.
Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 2:16pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Hurry up and expand it into impoverished east end im bloody hungry.
Hurry up and expand it into impoverished east end im bloody hungry.
Posted by: glamkitty, Glasgow on 2:24pm Fri 29 Aug 08
I was in France last week and their metro system puts this country to shame. Clean(er), running every few minutes, til 1am every night (later on weekends) - and cheap.
Why cant we have, at the very least, a subway system that covers the whole city?
I was in France last week and their metro system puts this country to shame. Clean(er), running every few minutes, til 1am every night (later on weekends) - and cheap.
Why cant we have, at the very least, a subway system that covers the whole city?
Posted by: QuincyMD, Glasgow on 2:29pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Read your own story Evening Times and you'll notice that it's free breakfast bars and not a BREAKFAST in the sense of the word that everyone else uses.
....and aren't these bars always lambasted for being full of sugar and fats and not actually being healthy.
Read your own story Evening Times and you'll notice that it's free breakfast bars and not a BREAKFAST in the sense of the word that everyone else uses.
....and aren't these bars always lambasted for being full of sugar and fats and not actually being healthy.
Posted by: trench, possilpark on 2:45pm Fri 29 Aug 08
aye but do they have ...POETS?, 'the boy stood on the burning deck his feet were full of blisters..he had no shoes to put on....so he just put on his sisters.'..boom boom.
aye but do they have ...POETS?, 'the boy stood on the burning deck his feet were full of blisters..he had no shoes to put on....so he just put on his sisters.'..boom boom.
Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 2:48pm Fri 29 Aug 08
[quote][bold]glamkitty[/bold] wrote:
I was in France last week and their metro system puts this country to shame. Clean(er), running every few minutes, til 1am every night (later on weekends) - and cheap. Why cant we have, at the very least, a subway system that covers the whole city?[/quote] I agree ,Glasgow has an urgent need for a transport system to be proud of.We have lots of disused tunnels and lines all over.Which are in good condition and helps keep cost down.
glamkitty wrote:
I was in France last week and their metro system puts this country to shame. Clean(er), running every few minutes, til 1am every night (later on weekends) - and cheap. Why cant we have, at the very least, a subway system that covers the whole city?
I agree ,Glasgow has an urgent need for a transport system to be proud of.We have lots of disused tunnels and lines all over.Which are in good condition and helps keep cost down.
Posted by: Alessandro, Airdrie on 3:42pm Fri 29 Aug 08
[quote]Alistair Watson, chairman of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, said: "We want to drive home the message that public transport is safer, more reliable, cheaper, cleaner and greener than using a car - not to mention less stressful.[/quote]
Safer? Well statistically i'm less likely to be in a serious crash on PT, but i'm less likely to be beaten up by a drugged-up thug in my car.
More reliable? No way.
Cheaper? Not really.
Cleaner? No way.
Greener? Perhaps, but it's not my first concern.
Less stressful? So when a bus doesn't turn up, when a train is cancelled without explanation, when it turns up with half as many carriages as it really needs, when the subway is off, that's less stressful? Pff.
Alistair Watson, chairman of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, said: "We want to drive home the message that public transport is safer, more reliable, cheaper, cleaner and greener than using a car - not to mention less stressful.
Safer? Well statistically i'm less likely to be in a serious crash on PT, but i'm less likely to be beaten up by a drugged-up thug in my car.
More reliable? No way.
Cheaper? Not really.
Cleaner? No way.
Greener? Perhaps, but it's not my first concern.
Less stressful? So when a bus doesn't turn up, when a train is cancelled without explanation, when it turns up with half as many carriages as it really needs, when the subway is off, that's less stressful? Pff.
Posted by: glamkitty, Glasgow on 3:51pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Public transport is none of those things. I have to use it, because theres nowhere to park at my work. But my two-stage journey takes me two buses (even though its only 3 miles from east end to west end) and can take over an hour if the traffic is heavy - in the car I can be door to door in 15 mins. Without my bus pass it would cost me a minimum of £3.55 or whatever it is for a peak-time all day ticket. I usually have to stand on the bus, packed in like a sardine. There are people pushing on with prams, there are school kids barging about, playing chipmunk music on their phones, there are folk smoking, there are neds giving abuse to everyone, there are junkies, and drunks, and folk stinking up the place with their KFC...
If I could take the car to work, why on gods green earth would I subject myself to the above?? As it is, I usually walk it, because its quicker, and a lot less stress.
Public transport is none of those things. I have to use it, because theres nowhere to park at my work. But my two-stage journey takes me two buses (even though its only 3 miles from east end to west end) and can take over an hour if the traffic is heavy - in the car I can be door to door in 15 mins. Without my bus pass it would cost me a minimum of £3.55 or whatever it is for a peak-time all day ticket. I usually have to stand on the bus, packed in like a sardine. There are people pushing on with prams, there are school kids barging about, playing chipmunk music on their phones, there are folk smoking, there are neds giving abuse to everyone, there are junkies, and drunks, and folk stinking up the place with their KFC...
If I could take the car to work, why on gods green earth would I subject myself to the above?? As it is, I usually walk it, because its quicker, and a lot less stress.
Posted by: Eileen, Glasgow on 5:48pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Stop moaning Glasgow at least its free, you are worse than Aberdonians on a flg day
Stop moaning Glasgow at least its free, you are worse than Aberdonians on a flg day
Posted by: Edna Bucket, Interweb on 6:33pm Fri 29 Aug 08
big mug of tea, milk no sugar
tow mortons crispy well fired if possible, rolls with beef square sausage, tottie scone onions aye, have some of them , dollop of brown sauce, well am a big greedy woman...ok so have it ready for me on the 22nd. And a kitkat for afters, always like something sweet wi ma tea....
sounds good tae me....
us scots never turn food doon.....
esp if its free...
widen the subway doors...lol
big mug of tea, milk no sugar
tow mortons crispy well fired if possible, rolls with beef square sausage, tottie scone onions aye, have some of them , dollop of brown sauce, well am a big greedy woman...ok so have it ready for me on the 22nd. And a kitkat for afters, always like something sweet wi ma tea....
sounds good tae me....
us scots never turn food doon.....
esp if its free...
widen the subway doors...lol
Posted by: Edna Bucket, Interweb on 6:34pm Fri 29 Aug 08
will there be on board porta potties Im regular as clockwork after my brekkie! :-)
will there be on board porta potties Im regular as clockwork after my brekkie! :-)
Posted by: Edna Bucket, Interweb on 6:36pm Fri 29 Aug 08
lol @ self!
Posted by: Billybhoy, Glasgow on 7:54pm Fri 29 Aug 08
Nice to see that the underground are catering for those people who use their park and ride facilities(4x4 city), at Shields Road and Kelvinbridge and those leaving the city centre, Buchanan St and St Enoch. What about the mere mortals who board at Govan, Ibrox, Kelvinhall etc en route to work.Can we not appreciate the benefits of a healthy start to the day or are you saving the fry up option for those stops
Nice to see that the underground are catering for those people who use their park and ride facilities(4x4 city), at Shields Road and Kelvinbridge and those leaving the city centre, Buchanan St and St Enoch. What about the mere mortals who board at Govan, Ibrox, Kelvinhall etc en route to work.Can we not appreciate the benefits of a healthy start to the day or are you saving the fry up option for those stops
Posted by: tam-m, southside on 8:22pm Fri 29 Aug 08
the subway will be full of poncing lowlife on that day,keep clear
the subway will be full of poncing lowlife on that day,keep clear
Posted by: The Wise One, Glasgow on 10:08pm Fri 29 Aug 08
I hope they have the litter police out that day. The place will be covered with banana skins and biscuit wrappers.
Maybe it's a ploy to make more money!!
I hope they have the litter police out that day. The place will be covered with banana skins and biscuit wrappers.
Maybe it's a ploy to make more money!!
Posted by: jan409, Glasgow on 12:57am Sat 30 Aug 08
This proposal is descrimiantion,again
st the folk that don't live near a subway station and can only use buses,
Why only at certain subway stations,anyway?
It should be held at more south side stations as they have the poorer health statistics,
This proposal is descrimiantion,again
st the folk that don't live near a subway station and can only use buses,
Why only at certain subway stations,anyway?
It should be held at more south side stations as they have the poorer health statistics,
Posted by: Whatever, Wherever on 9:41am Sat 30 Aug 08
Lol. You couldn't make it up - well, Primary Ones could!
Lol. You couldn't make it up - well, Primary Ones could!
Posted by: Blind.hippy, ayrshire on 2:40pm Sat 30 Aug 08
imagine going to work and the subway will be full of junkies jakies neds wanting food. give to every sheep a chance LOL.bill
imagine going to work and the subway will be full of junkies jakies neds wanting food. give to every sheep a chance LOL.bill
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