Gordon Street makeover to make a good first impression on travellers
July 3 2025
Glasgow City Council has opened a consultation on public realm improvements at Gordon Street to improve the interface with Central Station.
Initial concepts envisage decluttering the busy transport hub with vehicles diverted to create an uninterrupted sheltered space below the station canopy.
Raised planters would mark the boundary of this pedestrian zone with a new crossing point extending to the taxi rank and a relocated bus stop. A one-way traffic system will also be introduced along with new new signage.
Councillor Angus Millar commented: “Transport hubs like Central Station are a key gateway to the city centre for residents, commuters and visitors, so there’s a real opportunity to improve the city centre experience for many by making Gordon Street more attractive, accessible and welcoming.”
Survey participants have until 24 August to make their views known.
18 Comments
Ther, just saved you 20M quid. Now go and spend it on something decent like a perr o gasometers. Its a legal obligation...
It says a lot about a city (country?) that will make a half-hearted attempt to tart up a street - with some new paving and a very yellow line it would seem. But there’s something else at play here. There’s a very unwelcoming attitude growing in Scotland. Everywhere you turn we’re being told ‘tae gonna no dae that’ - don’t park there, don’t vape on the train or leave yer stuff laying about the airport or it’ll get blown up. I wonder what message that sends to our international visitors?
I always enjoy the hustle and bustle of coming out of Central and being thrust into the city centre, but it is different on a bike or late at night. Better lighting and better passive surveillance coupled to more frequent policing would go a long, long way. Keeping the place clean goes a long way too and this needs to be one of the City's new priority areas for cleaning - it is, after all, the first impression that many, many visitors get of the place.
The townscape and architecture in Gordon Street is as good as anywhere in the City and would be so much better if we could just tame the traffic and knock off the rough edges a bit.
Ah yes, the horse-drawn carriages and shoe-less urchins scampering about. Those were the days .....
The nostalgia of a pre-penicillin era - that's the ticket.
Muirhead Bone – "Horse-drawn carriages and shoeless urchins." And presumably a wee guy with a shovel and a bucket clearing up after the horses.
Today – "Drunks, beggars and junkies." Plus presumably a scaffie with a wee cart clearing up the disposable vapes, Tennents cans and McDonalds cartons.
Councillor Angus Millar – Has made all the rubbish disappear temporarily using his Photoshop magic wand tool! But it'll be back…
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You also need to the address the pollution of 24 hour drunks, beggars and junkies who dominate the entrance to the Central Station,
Its an intimidating place and getting worse
Never any sign of our Police Officers day or night, as they all sit in their big vans playing Pacman on their mobiles
Start addressing the real issues if you are looking to make a real opportunity to improve the city centre experience for residents, commuters and visitors