TO compliment the council on winning the best local authority, maybe the chief executive and Councillor Matheson should try to build on this by: fixing or demolishing derelict buildings, renewing the paint on road surfaces, cutting back overhanging bushes and trees, introducing a maintenance program of cleaning blocked drains and implementing a sweeping regime for street sweepers.

Glasgow can then be labelled a forward thinking city and not a backward one.

Mr Clean, via email

LET me remind Felix McCabe, of Cardonald, Letters Page Friday March 13, it was the SNP party who gave Scotland the most hated government in Scottish Political History in which they collaborated with the Tories to herald in an Era of Thatcherism in 1979 that did so much damage to our country's economy. Maybe Mr McCabe has had a memory lapse?

Councillor Alistair Watson, Glasgow City Council, via email

REGARDING the bus boost for visitors to new hospital, what about the First Bus service 90 which does also go through

the hospital campus. This service will still operate to take passengers from the south side to and from the hospital and must also cater for hospital staff too and this service must run from 5am weekdays and 5.20am weekends and still operate up till 11.30pm.

It would make real sense.

Alan Hall, Glasgow, posted online

THE best way to help the traffic flow in Glasgow would be to install average speed cameras on the M8 with a 50mph speed limit. Most of the traffic jams are caused by accidents which are caused by excessive speed on a busy motorway.

Better planning of roadworks would also be a big help.

Sam McKeown, Paisley

I AM not surprised to learn that the Commonwealth Games helped to boost numbers at visitors attractions according to new report. The mix of sports and culture worked so well and it meant that locals like me felt there was something on offer during the games, even although I didn't have tickets to sporting events.

Our museums are first class it was a great time for the city to showcase what it had to offer for visitors. Hopefully those who visited last year will be repeat visitors.

R McGarrity, Glasgow