A TRANSPORT campaign group has reported that bus speeds in Glasgow are falling faster than anywhere else in the UK due to congestion. (Evening Times September 15).

Another factor must be the decision to make buses and cyclists share the same lane on the busy commuter route from the south side to the city centre.

As a result, buses are unable to overtake cyclists during rush hour when the neighbouring lane is congested with traffic, thus forcing buses to decelerate to the same speed as a cyclist.

A simple solution would be to incorporate a separate cycle lane into the large pavements of Pollokshaws Road and Eglinton Street.

This would have the added benefit of being safer for cyclists, therefore encouraging more Glaswegians to consider cycling as an option for their journey.

Brian Atkinson, Glasgow

WITH reference to the Govanhill project (Evening Times September 20), you can decorate a pig sty but you can’t make the pigs keep it that way.

Govanhill is being run down deliberately so that the houses bought on the cheap can then be sold to developers when the place is flattened.

William Armour, via email

READING about the ongoing parking row at the Queen Elizabeth hospital recently, it’s a sad state of affairs but this new hospital clearly demonstrates that the SNP couldn’t run a bath.

It’s been one problem after another, just like Police Scotland and the late payments to our farmers. The list is longer than Pinocchio’s bugle.

Can anyone imagine this mob in charge of our national security and intelligence services ?

Scary stuff indeed!

David Keane, posted online

TO top it all off the SNP wants to organise the return of Scotland back into the EU after Brexit.

They can’t manage car parking in their flagship hospitals, they can’t manage Scotland’s deficit, or economy, they can’t manage the running of our schools or educational system, and we have people dying waiting for treatment in the Scottish NHS.

The oil industry is dead unless they do something to help, and they can. The price of oil only affects the oil producers.

The government, along with drilling companies can make a deal to help in the exploration side that would keep rigs drilling.

I’m sure these companies would rather have their rigs ticking over than being cold stacked in the Firth for the unseeable future.

Look at the wasted millions they gifted Aberdeen, and someone please tell me what good it did, and who received the money.

If the SNP had their minds on the job they were elected to do they could at least attempt to sort the many problems we are facing right now here in Scotland, and I won’t even go on about the affordable housing shortage.

I think what they really want is for the EU to make decisions for them so that they would have someone else to blame, just like in the fisheries section.

George Oliver, posted online