READING about the Govan parking row (Evening Times June 3), the solution to solve the problem will cost money, not make money for cash grabbing Glasgow council.

I have said it before, but the hospital was allowed to be built without the infrastructure for parking of staff and visitors.

Why not build secure parking in some of the industrial wasteland surrounding the hospital? But that will not make the council money!

Joseph McFadden, posted online

THE parking problems are a brilliant illustration of what a poorly governed, backward country Scotland is.

Deliberately build a giant hospital with insufficient parking for workers and visitors!

Ronnie Simpson, posted online

THE story about tourists getting caught in bus lanes (Evening Times May 30), I think the pedestrianisation of Sauchiehall, Buchanan and Argyle Streets was the best decision Glasgow City Council ever made.

Possibly the only really good decision they have ever made - demolishing huge swathes of the city to build a motorway and ever increasing systems of one-way streets are not their finest hour. One-way streets have been shown repeatedly in research to increase the speed of motor vehicles and the number and severity of vehicle/pedestrian accidents yet GCC are determined to roll them out from shopping streets in the city centre to residential streets across the city.

Their justification? One-way streets improve the flow of traffic and decrease the number of vehicle/vehicle accidents - but those aren't the accidents which kill or injure people.

Ian Nicolson, posted online

I LEFT Glasgow 41 years ago and rarely return but did so recently for a family wedding.

I was in the city one day and fell foul of the West George Street/Nelson Mandela Place bus enforcement lane when simply following other traffic trying to get to Duke Street through George Square.

Tourists are unjustly penalised and I have told all and sundry to avoid Glasgow in future.

This is no more than a shake-down by Glasgow City Council to grab money for their coffers. The city I live operated a peak-hours only bus lane policy but abandoned this policy long ago as it just caused traffic jams, accidents and criticism from businesses who lost trade as people avoided the city centre.

John Finlayson, posted online