'Confusing' city centre

READING about visitors to Glasgow getting caught in bus lanes (Evening Times May 30), the city centre is a confusing nightmare of one-way streets, limited interchange junctions, bus lanes, etc.

Sure, if you’re a local and know where you’re going it’s clearly signed.

If you’re a visitor to the city trying to get to a specific location and constantly finding you can’t turn right here, you can only go the other way up this street it’s almost inevitable that sooner or later you’ll miss a sign because you’re busy looking at the confusing mess of other road signs.

Glasgow has never been a visitor friendly city and the dismissive response from GCC’s spokesman confirms that nothing has changed.

Instead of reviewing the mess of one-way streets in the city centre, GCC is busy rolling out further mess in areas beyond the city centre.

Ian Nicolson, posted online

I have lived in the Glasgow area most of my life (except ten years in London) and WOULDN’T take a car into the city centre anymore.

Even WE can get caught out.

How do people manage to have time to read signs, while watching traffic lights and jay walkers in an unfamiliar town?

It’s obvious that fines are what the lanes are there for! It’s not for road safety or traffic management?

My wife comes from Leeds and any time her family come up here for a break, I warn them to park at the station and take the suburban electric into town. Otherwise, they’ll be ripped off by not only bus lane fines, but exorbitant car park charges!

William Brown, posted online

MY satnav tries to take me through the Nelson Mandela Place bus lane too.

There must be a way to stop GPS doing this - the same way they advise of major road works. That would reduce the number of drivers being caught by the cameras.

Suzie Smith, posted online

THE story about where EU cash is spent in Glasgow (Evening Times, May 30) is totally irrelevant - the cash Glasgow gets from the EU is supplied by the British tax payer!

The UK is and always has been the world’s leading innovator.

Let’s get out of this miserable little cartel once and for all. Let’s do what we do best - innovate and invent.

Declare unilateral free trade with the world and we will prosper again. The EU stifles us.

The only reason we are in it is to keep a few ailing businesses protected from world competition and they are being subsidised at the expense of the young dynamic businesses that are the lifeblood of our economy.

John Turnbull, posted online