It will be 8 years come November since the Connectivity Commission was established. The pace of change here - notwithstanding the headwind effects of covid - is glacial.
This will be a real test of whether the City Region should have a Mayor or not and whether such an ambitious project can be co-ordinated across multiple local authorities,multiple transport organisations and national government. One suspect it may be another 8 years or more before spades are in the ground - and that feels optimistic.
Meanwhile cities of a similar size - Dublin, Manchester, Leeds are charging ahead. And we wonder why the city is still punching below its weight economically.

Echo all of the above comments, if it ever does happen and it's a big if then it has the potential to transform Glasgow and the surrounding conurbation

How many studies do we need?
Middle class welfare in full flow -- double dipping in plain sight.
Spending millions to work out we can't afford to spend billions when the city is falling down around us.

Basics are beyond us -- we have infrastructure but we don't make full use of it.
We have long standing plans that Auld Reekie hobby horsers don't like -- City Union Line come on down.
We have the longest drum roll in history -- Subway modernisation take a bow.
We have had a go at BRT and failed -- Fastlink you know who I am talking about.
You can't improve the buses if you hobble the streets -- City Avenue Project you are in the spotlight.
Transport failure is now our middle name -- Airport train link shows how we do stuff.

The city is now humphy backed carrying all these dead weights and now we are setting ourselves up to fail again as we demand billions that Westminster and Holyrood don't have.

Asking for billions means that it will never happen.
Making what we have work better will generate a case for more investment.

In the meantime an understanding of where we do spend money might shake us out of our current stasis -- if we do any level of digging the results will shame us.

Never going to happen - look at previous failed attempts like GARL to the airport, and Glasgow Crossrail along the City Union line. No point in developing a “robust business case” when no money’s been allocated to rapid transit and there’s no political will or ambition to create a modern city. Glasgow should take a leaf out of Edinburgh’s book…

'Billions of pounds are needed to make Strathclyde Partnership for Transport's vision a reality'...or we could just improve the buses and make the bus system free for everyone. Cheaper and mroe effective in the long run!

Steps:
1) Shared ticketing across subway, trains, buses
2) Identify "lines" to remove from Scotrail and in to Clyde Metro. They become Clyde Metro once stations upgraded to be like subway i.e. automatic ticketing with barriers
3) Strategic investments in interchange stations on existing lines e.g. Glasgow Cross to bring the old cross clyde to St Enochs station line back in to passenger rail use; Eglinton Toll to link/change between north-south and east-west lines, etc..
4) New lines linking e.g. Braehead & Airport

Surely we can get (1) implemented almost immediately, with (2) produced on a "current" and "aspiration" basis...

Q+D start to a public transport reset -- airport link is a must.

Cheapest method would be a cable car.
Bit exotic but if it flops it can be removed and resold.

Big in the really rough parts of South America.
Quick to set up and can sope with awkward terrain.

Cable car -- PGS to GLA -- £100mill spend.
What is not to like?
Get it done.

#4 take a leaf out of Edinburgh's book? Which delivered a single noddy tram line years late and hundreds of millions of pounds over budget? No thanks.
The Glasgow Metro project is aiming to deliver a city wide public transport network for a population 3 times the size of Edinburgh.

We should not be wasting more taxpayers money on "studies/ business cases" Glasgow's public transport would embarrass a thirld world city!! No integrated ticketing, a toytown subway thats before the pubs do (and at six on Sundays) expensive and unreliable buses and Scotrai whol treat people going to gigs/festivals with contempt with no late running services, why not sort the basic stuff first?! Maybe use some of the many unused railway tunnells? Glasgow needs action not more glossy brochures

#9...you are absolutely right! The problem is the big consultancies will push this with enthusiasm if not glee because it's easy squillions for them.

#8 May well be. But it's up and running and a huge success, bringing investment to the airport, Granton etc.

#11 - Exactly that. One working tram line in the hand is worth at least two city-wide metro networks in the bush…