UR where is this being held?

It has a desperately provincial look to it somehow - rather than the solidity that should come with being the locus of the genesis of the City.Page/Park got it right with the Royal Mile and Cathedral Precinct all those years ago.We should be aiming for that kind of gravitas. Why so few street planted trees (if any)?

Sorry, it's the development & regeneration services building at 231 George Street.

That's great news... we'll be able to walk past the beggars without tripping over them.

If traffic is being narrowed to 2 lanes, I hope the intention is to keep traffic only to the east side of the Tolbooth Steeple, allowing for a nicer public space to be created to the west and improving its setting.

@ 4. I think thats an unfair characterisation of High St

Zero consistency in how cycle lanes are being designed and implemented across the city (and elsewhere).

This is our royal mile we don't need cycling lanes we need a good 21st transport system .not trains thst are constantly cancelled bus services thst are terrible on Sundays and basically just asking for normal what you would expect of a Going green Seems Glasgow doesn't get that I feel embarrassed when tourists come dirty city no trains Sundays cancelled as a day in Glasgow .

Why don't we just bring back horses

Ohh good, another way to limit driving from one end of the city to the other. Absolute joke

These are so lacklustre! Hope they can be more visionary than this!!

"Consultants from Ironside Farrar will be on hand to explain the aims behind the intervention ...".

If ever a scheme didn't need to be explained by consultants, this is it. It is a new cycle lane, a token bit of planting and some new paving. Depressingly lacking in ambition.

#6 totally agree, its so infuriating. if only there was a consistent strategy implemented across the country. Surely that's not too much to ask.

As an aside, a drop-in session between 12:00pm and 3:00pm on a Tuesday afternoon is unlikely to be suitable for most people. It would be good if a genuine effort could be made to engage meaningfully with the public.

Once more the George Square mob have got it qrong. Do these people have inherited jobs. They are still at it try trying to disappear our town. Edinburgh is a city worth treasuring and keeping. Glasgow council are determined to alter every bit of our proud heritage. Sauchiehall street a one way car and taxi run, with no Glasgow people allowed to stop, park or pickup anyone. Please someone I Glasgow needs to get rid of these jobs for life culprits who are destroying our heritage. These passing thru councillors need to learn to love an enjoy our city, and stop trying tput their stamp on it

I certainly agree with all the comments contrasting how Edinburgh is kept up with how Glasgow is kept up. The cathedral is magnificent. The Lord Provost house is fascinating. I would like to see the possibility of classes / lectures in the Lord Provost house. I apologise if there have been some but I just haven’t seen the advertised They have a garden supposedly planted with plants from mediaeval times. It would be great to go to a little lecture or talk on life in glasgow or what these herbs were used for how to grew your own et cetera, et cetera.

Wow, the stunning transformation is truly a visionary masterpiece of urban design. All parties must be congratulated on truly pushing the boundaries on this one!

Not very engaging having an engagement session face to face on a Tuesday afternoon. As a blind person with a guide dog I hope this will make it easier for me to navigate High St, but it doesn't sound like it will. The floating or island bus stops are dengerous for me as I have no vision and limited hearing so can't see or hear the cyclists I have to dodge simply to access the bus stop. I really hope the kerbs are going to stay and the pavements aren't going to just be flat like in Sauchiehall Street. Taking the kerbs away makes it so hard for me to navigate and know that I'm on the pavement and not on the cycle lane or rroad. I'd love the Council to recognise that the pedestrian and not the cyclist is at the top of the "transport hierarky".

Totally agree with everyone.

What a piece of dross nonsense and would actually better to leave it alone than do this same shambles that has been proven not to work elsewhere in the city.

Particularly agree with the above comment that mixing two lanes of pedestrians, bus stops etc in with the cycle lane in the middle is the act of what could only be the worst type of deranged jobsworth who has clearly almost never cycled or walked anywhere and wants to use up what's left of the NHS with all the inevitable injuries that the rubbish cycle lanes in Glasgow are now going to be producing.

Better take your chances in with the cars than killing a stray pedestrian in that cycle lane, yes not everyone cycles at 5mph, especially if you are serious about it as a car alternative.

It's all anti car policy here with no viable alternatives given at all as people are rightly pointing out, public transport worse than it was 40 years ago, local businesses and cultural community being destroyed at some pace by this brainless policy.

The only good thing is that all the smart urbanist citizens above can see right through this madness and clearly want something different.

Could someone please print this blog and comments and send to the relevant people at the top of GCC planning, urban design, transport and so on?

Have a nice weekend meantime.

What bus route actually uses High Street??? The last bus I remember using High Street is the long-gone 37!

#17 - "Not very engaging having an engagement session face to face on a Tuesday afternoon." I hate to say it, but holding engagement sessions when most folk are at work is a deliberate strategy by bike lane obsessed council officers to minimise the meaningful feedback received from non-cyclists. The pro-cycling lobby will be organised via their Facebook and WhatsApp groups to bombard the consultation with supportive emails, but everyone else who wants to see the proposals in person and speak to Ironside Farrar with any concerns - the disabled, older folk, people with kids at nursery, those who have regular jobs - will find that's been made difficult for them. Come off it Scottish local authorities, this is a well known ruse: please make sure you hold some lunchtime, evening and weekend sessions as well so that *everyone* gets a fair shout.

Are bike lanes limited to 20mph?
Given the High Street hill I think they are going to need speed cameras ...

Transport 1400 hobby horsing -- generating congestion to justify the hugely inflated cost of tarting up the High Street.

Holyrood / GCC -- strange set of spending priorities.
Student politicians who will never grow up.