WHILE watching the Ross County v Celtic game at the weekend, I counted pitch side adverts for no less than six different bookmakers.

Two advertised “free bets” while one exhorted viewers to “Download the app” and “Bet now”.

Bookmakers take much from society while contributing little.

Society does not countenance alcohol firms giving away free drinks, nor cigarette adverts encouraging people to smoke.

The Scottish Government should take steps within its devolved powers to limit the insidious and ubiquitous advertisements of bookmakers.

Brian Atkinson, Glasgow

'All for' plan

I THINK the SNP plan to extend the Subway(Evening Times April 17) is an excellent idea and very worth exploring - it has in fact been explored many times before by people of all political persuasions.

The idea to build better transport links for the north and east (where the poorest people in Glasgow actually live) is a very good one: better access to work and opportunities, creates a bigger market in the Glasgow economy and provides employment. I’m all for it!

Fraser Boyle, posted online

Extend hours

HOW about we start simple by extending the running hours of the Subway on Sundays?

It’s 2017 not 1917, people work and want to go or stay out later than 5.30pm.

Stopping the underground at 6pm in the biggest city in the country is a total joke.

Gemma McDonald, posted online

Ambitious idea

THIS Subway plan sounds like a great idea, long overdue, and shows some ambition unlike the stale, complacent Labour city government.

Look at other European cities such as Stockholm, Rome, Milan and Barcelona, which started their metros long after Glasgow and now have city wide networks.

So much of the overground lines in Glasgow could also be incorporated to create a city wide metro, and an interchange with the existing Argyle line at St Enoch could immediately become a second, ready made subway line for Glasgow.

Milan, a city similar in size to Glasgow, is currently building a fourth metro line at a cost of 1.7billion Euro which is being paid for half and half by local and national governments.

Why should people be content with allowing Scotland’s metropolis, once one of the largest and most ambitious cities in the world, to become nothing more than a regional backwater?

Bart Baker, posted online