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Andrew Hoolachan

3 months

@ReplacetheM8 ? From 8pm tonight, hear @ScotRoadArchive , @JudeBarber1 & myself discuss the history, legacy & future of the M8, presented by @alittl , produced by @robbiejourno w. some belter tunes by Talking Heads, Kraftwerk & Grace Jones! 🚗🕺

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Motorway City

The story of how Glasgow became the UK’s archetypal motorway city.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

10 months

Why is there no major passenger ferry service from Dundee, Aberdeen or Leith to Netherlands, Denmark & Germany?

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@hoolacambs

2 years

@BenjaminRamm This map has no basis in climate science. For a start, parts of the equator will experience more rainfall, not less.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

Slicing the city in half, stalling developments, overscaled, dangerous for pedestrians, outdated, backward and an embarrassment to Scotland’s aspirations as an innovator in public policy - replace the M8!

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@hoolacambs

3 months

Pretty wild that Inverness, Aberdeen and Edinburgh all have rail or tram links to their airports while the largest metro area in Scotland, Glasgow, doesn’t.

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@ScotRail

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Inverness Airport station has had a flying start, clocking up 50,000 passengers in its first year of operation.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

1 year

As a southsider, trying to get anywhere apart from Glasgow Central is totally unpredictable. You can’t predict how long it will take you as Bus, Rail and Subway times aren’t integrated into a system anywhere and Google Maps doesn’t provide accurate bus data. It’s not acceptable.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

11 months

It’s so easy to make a low cost space with a few makeshift benches, a bit of nature, letting people sit outside, and no barriers demarcating the seating from the street. Reminds me of my time in Berlin. More of this in Glasgow please (with some dry spaces for rain too!)

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

1 year

Glasgow vibes in Brooklyn

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

We need a publicly owned Transport for Greater Glasgow NOW, bringing bus, subway, overground, shared bikes, and streets under one system. This is international best practice. Why are we lagging behind? The Scottish government must act!

Replace The M8

@ReplacetheM8

2 years

choosing public transport means it has to be reliable, understandable and have consistent pricing. If we want a city that's ultra-livable, not polluted and noisy or with land wasted on huge areas of tarmac, we first need to get control of public transport.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

7 months

You can’t have Berlin nightlife without Berlin public transport.

Clyde 1 News

@Clyde1News

7 months

Councillors in Glasgow have decided nightclubs can permanently stay open until 4am following an extended pilot period.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

3 months

Glasgow isn’t a real city until it sorts out Clyde Metro. Britain’s 4th largest metropolitan area and a shambles of public transport. What’s astonishing is how this has been allowed to happen - this is what happens with fragmented governance and poor leadership.

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@ilynnica2

3 months

@MrScottGalloway Delivery plan for Clyde Metro was due for release before end of 2023.... Tumbleweed...

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

Me in the Sunday Post on why we should consider replacing Glasgow’s M8 as removing urban motorways have proven to be successful around the world. Should Scotland and Glasgow lead the world or fall behind? Also featuring @JudeBarber1 & @PaulJSweeney

Going, going, cone: Is it the end of the road for motorways like the M8?

It is the busiest stretch of road in Scotland but is now, and will remain for years, the country’s most notorious traffic jam.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

3 months

Dundee is so under-rated by the rest of Scotland. Every time I go home I go for a run up and around Balgay hill and the observatory. It’s sublime, with spectacular views out to Fife and Perthshire. When friends visit and I show them around they are surprised at the natural beauty

Dundee Culture

@DundeeCulture

3 months

❤🌌🥰 Mills Observatory is indeed one of a kind, a stunning observatory nested beautifully in the parklands of Balgay Hill. It is the oldest purpose-built observatory in the UK and is captured here wonderfully by @shahbazmajeed ! #Dundee

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

7 months

Excellent to these this image of Glasgow in the rain in the @GlasgowCC 's Southside Central Regeneration Framework which aligns with my @RTPIPlanners 'Living with Rain' work. Its a fantastic example of a spatial plan, one of the best I've seen.

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@hoolacambs

11 months

Good job Edinburgh. Now do Glasgow! The average width of major Glasgow roads would easily accommodate trams on key arterials which huge hugely increase capacity and efficiency of the transport network. Endless traffic jams on the A77 and similar routes are not the answer.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

1 month

In all this rise of co-working spaces, have folks forgotten they can use the public library for free? And why aren’t local authorities competing with coworking companies? They could easily commercialise and make some money from it.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

@parisyimby Ah yes, the Parisian notion that they are civilised while ignoring its problems of widespread racism and sociopatial inequality as reflected in the horrific state of the banlieus.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

11 months

The Scotrail witching hour. Hourly trains for a 6 minute journey through the city👻 I guess I’ll have to take a bus which is more expensive. Productive city region this is not.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

Glasgow phenomena.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

1 year

Many British cities already implemented traffic calming in the 1970/ 80s that are nearly identical to measures advocated by the 15 minute city discourse now. The world didn’t end. Here’s one from Pollokshields in Glasgow, creating space for nature and adding value to the area.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

16 lanes at Kinning Park.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

1 year

Honoured to have been awarded an Early Career research grant from the @RTPIPlanners I will look at urban planning for everyday life in wet cities, using Glasgow as an initial pilot. Methods will include 'citizen science', walk-alongs in the rain. Get those wellies out. 🌧️🌂🌧️

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

The electronic bus timetable at Glasgow bus stops arent actually live, despite giving the appearance that they are. Hugely misleading and not fit for use if we want an efficient and reliable service. Where is the investment? It’s not rocket science. @GetGlesgaMoving

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

6 months

@TPointUK Yes, Dundee, the famous bastion of patriotism where Churchill was defeated in 1922, which in 2014 rejected the UK and in 2016 voted Remain. 'the world's ill divided / them that work the hardest are the least provided' - M. Brooksbank, Dundee 'wummin', mill worker and activist.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

18 days

This is ludicrous. Winchburgh is right on the line between Edinburgh and Glasgow. A station here would support the transit-oriented development the Scottish gov claims they want to achieve. Meanwhile, car dependent low value suburban sprawl continues on the edge of our cities.

Winchburgh Community

@winchburghcc

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The fight to bring a Train Station to Winchburgh continues. @JimFairlieLogie @STVNews @BBCScotlandNews

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@hoolacambs

1 year

Glad 15 minute neighbourhoods are being embedded into policy, but we were already there in 1999: This is from Rogers' 'Towards an Urban Renaissance'. Question: Why is urban policy a carousel of historical repetition and how do we actually implement it this time?

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@hoolacambs

3 months

"In 1919, Glasgow has the cheapest and most frequent tram system in the whole world". 63% of passengers paid a ha'penny, Trams every 25 second on busy stretches. Excellent documentary from 1984, with archive footage from 1901. (Glasgow from 3:45).

Losing Track - 6 - Tram Towns

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

Just been elected as a Chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. 😀 @RTPIPlanners @RTPIScotland @UofGlasgow @UofGUrbStudies

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

4 months

This is really important in the l history of community ownership models of social housing. And a reminder of how Glasgow was a pioneer in this in the 1970s.

Paul Sweeney

@PaulJSweeney

4 months

A historic victory for community-owned housing happened in Glasgow tonight. Against all odds, the members of Dennistoun's Reidvale Housing Association rallied and voted to reject a takeover by a huge London-based housing group by a resounding 138 to 70. People Make Glasgow!

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@hoolacambs

1 year

Nothing signifies the crude injustices of British housing policy since 1979, than the whole scale retrofit and selling of 1960s social housing into “Mid Century Modern” luxury flats, costing over £1m per flat, in one of London’s poorest areas.

Nico

@atapushmaybe

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I shouldn't be surprised anymore, and it looks lovely, *and* it is Trellick, but £1.15m for a 18th floor leasehold ex-council flat in a tower block? There doesn't seem to be an end point.

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@hoolacambs

6 months

A quick fix to many of Glasgow's public transport challenges could be: An SPT rapid bi-directional circular bus route connecting south-east-north-west that stopped only at key train or subway stations. An SPT shuttle bus to subway stations for Maryhill / Shawlands and Govanhill

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 months

I hope Perth and Kinross Council rejects this application. Pitlochry is currently a thriving compact town with a bustling High Street. Edge of town mega retail will bleed it dry and it will become just another crap small Scottish town, like many others. Are we doing NPF4 or not?

Stuart Hay

@StreetWurrier

2 months

Tesco superstore plan for Pitlochry, Highland Perthshire. Edge of town, green field site, large car park (near flood plain / weather course), no public transport service? dubious active travel links. Integrated renewables? Climate Emergency Cancelled!

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@hoolacambs

1 year

@fraserjfstewart And the assumption that you've got money just sitting there that you can wait two months to receive...

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@hoolacambs

1 year

👏Motion passed by Green & SNP councillors with Labour support, to develop options on the future of the M8. Thanks to @ChristyMearns & @AngusCMillar for putting it fwd & delivering emphatic speeches @ReplacetheM8 Hear about the campaign: @UofGSocSci

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@hoolacambs

7 months

Without having done the maths, it seems intuitively sensible to have one Greater Glasgow authority covering the current metro area, to pool together, share resources and have co-ordinatined strategic planning on transport, housing and other development.

North Lanarkshire Council to close libraries, pools and sports centres

North Lanarkshire Council will close 39 community facilities to try to find £64m in savings.

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

@ScotRail Why are the trains through Queen’s Park, Cross Hill and Mount Florida so infrequent when this is one of the most densely populated parts of Glasgow? It should be every 15 mins max, rather than every hour in the evenings. Will write to my MP & MSP about it, it’s unacceptable.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

No trees, no plants, no flowers, no life. Just dead urban desolation. We deserve better. @GlasgowCC @GlasgowNPC @SouthSeeds @glasgowgreens

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1 year

Another way in which English and Scottish urban form are subsumed into “UK”. Scottish cities which are defined by 4 storey tenements instead of 2 storey terraces, are much more distinct and resemble more closely the denser urban forms of European cities.

Giles Wilkes

@Gilesyb

1 year

"The Anglosphere needs to learn to love apartment living" - such an interesting article from @jburnmurdoch

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

Excited to start as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at TU Berlin this week until December, exploring urban heritage, designing with nature and geeking-out on Berlin's planning issues. @cms_tu_berlin @UofGUrbStudies

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

@Liamprobably @nickmward I agree but to add some nuance, we should probably think more about class relations within Scotland, who was making the big commercial decisions and who owned land. It certainly wasn’t the thousands cramped into Glasgow and Dundee slums whose only options were labours of empire.

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@hoolacambs

2 months

Let’s do something that’s normal in Edinburgh, Manchester and London, while getting better value for public money with lower costs to the customer. No brainer.

Better Buses for Strathclyde

@BetterBusesSPT

2 months

This is all the proof you need that it’s the people of Strathclyde vs. the millionaire bus company bosses in the fight to #TakeBackOurBuses !🚍💸 Join our People’s Rally for Public Control: 📅Friday 15 March, 9am 📍SPT Offices, 131 St Vincent St, Glasgow

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1 year

It can take me 35 minutes or 55 minutes to get work. How can we realise our commitments to net zero when we cant even run a functioning public transport system that people can use easily?

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

2 years

Creative uses underneath the urban motorway in Manchester - bars, drinks, retail. Aside from the presbyterian anti-fun culture of Glasgow why can’t we do this too? @ReplacetheM8 @GlasgowCC @SustransScot @GetGlesgaMoving @scottishgreens

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@hoolacambs

3 years

Disgraceful exclusion at Queens Park station. Are people in wheelchairs/with pushchairs/ luggage/ maybe just a bit tired meant to just not use the station? Or take the bus, which is more expensive? Step free access is BASIC. Sort it out! @GetGlesgaMoving

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

1 year

Planning pilgrimage to the house where Jane Jacobs lived, where her observations about life on Hudson St led directly to many of the concepts in Death & Life such as Eyes on the Street, The Street Ballet, Slow Money/Cataclysmic Money etc

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@hoolacambs

11 months

Great news, despite the deafening Glaswegian Exceptionalism going around, determined to resist policies that cities everywhere else are doing to improve the wellbeing of their citizens and fight the climate emergency.

Go Radio

@thisisgoradio

11 months

The Glasgow Greens say they would back the Low Emission Zone being expanded beyond the current city centre boundaries, & for the emissions limit being lowered. Transport spokeswoman @ChristyMearns says the LEZ won't just help quality of life, but the climate crisis too.

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@hoolacambs

10 months

Dear Glaswegians, for the two minute train ride between Charing Cross and Glasgow Queen Street, please when you pay online, insert the card you used to pay with and enter this code. To travel for 2 mins. MEGALOLZ FAIL (is this a real city?)🙃🙃🙃

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1 year

Can’t believe 15 minute neighbourhoods have become the new conspiracy theory of the alt right wackosphere who have brought us Brexit, Covid Denial, and Woke-phobia. The concept is literally so benign and basic and goes back centuries.

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@hoolacambs

3 years

Do people who plan our public transport system actually use it? A monthly season ticket is NOT INTEGRATED TICKETING. Our system penalises flexibility. Why aren't the trains, busses and subway under one system? A total failure of policy. Let's change it.

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@PaulJSweeney

3 years

If the Government needs to introduce integrated free ticketing for #COP26 delegates because the usual public transport system isn't good enough, then why is it good enough for Glaswegians the rest of the time? The unwillingness to permanently fix it treats our city with contempt.

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1 year

@SNevin1 @janicemorphet @finn_mcredmond British nationalism is a zero sum game, it’s all about being “better” than other countries rather than equal respect.

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@hoolacambs

7 months

Very much enjoyed my first taste of being a member of my local community council tonight.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

Another reason why we need a Greater Glasgow authority just like Manchester, the West Midlands and England’s other two-tier urban authrities, or like Strathclyde Regional Council. The fragmentation of local gov geographies in a conurbation like Glasgow makes no sense.

Peter Kelly

@peakay81

1 year

The Greater #Glasgow area needs a regional housing allocation plan instead of outer authorities having to find space on greenbelt land when there is brownfield land all over Glasgow Council area. The current policy encourages sprawl/not sustainable.

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@hoolacambs

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On transport policy alone, I can’t say I’m surprised. There is a fundamental disconnection between policy aspiration and delivery on the ground in the responsible institutions. The woefully outdated public transport system in Glasgow alone is just one example. Prove me wrong?

BBC Scotland News

@BBCScotlandNews

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BREAKING The Scottish government is to ditch its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030

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When is Glasgow getting this? Just make it happen and stop faffing about.

Andy Burnham

@AndyBurnhamGM

9 months

Two months today, buses in GM start to go back under public control and the cost of combined bus and tram travel will be cut by 20%. 24 September should signal the beginning of a public transport revolution across not just GM but the whole of England. #BeeNetwork

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Yesterday’s visit to Cité Radieuse felt like a rite of passage for any urbanist. It’s rare to find fundamental component ideas inherent to modernist architecture and urban planning expressed in so clearly in built form.

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Watching an endless streak of cars sitting stagnant all down Pollokshaws Rd in Glasgow at peak times is frustrating, when you consider that more than anything it’s such a low-tech, inefficient way to manage urban mobility. The streets are wide enough for trams, easily.

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Did you know that CAR LANES are the worst possible answer to the question of how to use road space efficiently? ( @NACTO 's Street Capacity)

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The people powered movement to replace the M8 is growing. Citizens of Glasgow from all quarters and backgrounds are coming together to think about alternative futures of our city. Politicians take heed! Thanks to @bobby_jewell @newglasgowsoc @ReplacetheM8 for a fantastic exhib

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The winners and runners up for the @RTPIWScotland & @UofGUrbStudies student prize for their MSc planning course, where they created a radical new vision to @ReplacetheM8

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1 year

Local tradition meets placeless vulgarity

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2 years

Potholes Make Glasgow. A fine accident claim waiting to happen there…

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@hoolacambs

1 year

What kind of largest city of a country doesn’t have an airport rail link? Sometimes I think those that plan this country have never lived or experienced real cities. “EH BUT WUV GOT A BUS AY”

Ewan Gibbs

@ewangibbs

1 year

Amazing that Glasgow still doesn’t have an airport rail link. Amazingly bad that is. A badly run city.

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3 months

The hum of an electric tram is far nicer than the rattle of a combustion engine. Standing up in a Glasgow bus these days risks ankle breakage and whiplash as they career over potholes. Wish that we had stable smooth tramways again!

Tony McK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ||*||

@oakroyd

3 months

#GlasgowNocturne - Renfield Street looking south, 1954. (Robert Hunter)

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2 years

Why are British cities so crap? This is normal in the Netherlands.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

@freddie_poser In Germany, most shops close all day Sunday to give workers a fixed day off every week with their family. It’s Europe’s strongest economy with much better public services. You plan ahead, it’s easy.

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@BallotBoxScot Ideally, Glasgow should incorporate all the adjacent suburbs, particularly the affluent ones who use the city’s services and drive cars into the city. The wealth in the suburbs only exists because of the commerce in the city.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

The South City way is fantastic. But a huge opportunity has been missed in not integrating with Bridge St subway so people can make multimodal journeys to the wider city. There is no safe way to access it on bike and the site is heavily bounded and engineered for cars only.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

In 2100, people will look back on the arrests of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, from inside artificial atmospheres, from synthetic food farms, from barren lands, and they’ll judge that our police & govt were as criminal as we think of the slave trade today.

Christopher Hope📝

@christopherhope

1 year

Just normal weather in Harpenden in May this afternoon! 🌧️ ⛄️ ❄️

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@hoolacambs

1 year

every week I find a new obstacle trying to live a normal car-free life in Glasgow - I should make a musical out of it. the surrealism of the dysfunctional gaslighting transport system is wild Sorry for bringing my ‘crazy’ outside perspective that’s normal everywhere else 🤪

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@hoolacambs

2 years

We can come up with a covid vaccine, provide military aid to Ukraine, can develop AI computers, but we cant manage the simple task of co-ordinating housing, universities, and governments to work together on forward planning for student housing.

KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner

@Kwajotweneboa

2 years

Students could be forced to drop out of University if the shortage of housing in some cities isn’t addressed …

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@hoolacambs

2 years

This is a serious problem. Would be good if we could have some comms from Glasgow City Council around when we will have a functioning night time public transport? Currently it’s unsafe, cripples the economy and ensures the city doesn’t meet its aspirations as a cultural city.

Dylan S

@dylsmith8

2 years

Glasgow's night time public transport is absolutely horrendous. Trains and buses non-existent. Taxis ghosting you and Uber charging 60 quid for a 10 min trip. Shambles

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1 year

Public holidays, two-day weekends and fair pay were not benevolently handed down, we had to take them from employers and governments. The Tory government is attempting to remove our democratic means to bargain for better pay and conditions across all sectors. Stand up.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

@heraldscotland Soon all the west of Scotland will resemble Los Angeles. Place less, centre less, hollowed out. Anywhere land, where everything is dependent on the car. Why can’t we get our priorities right

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@hoolacambs

10 months

Studying a degree is probably the only sustained period in your life where you will have the chance to think critically and creatively without major risk and responsibilities to you or your employer. Everyone is missing the point in asking “what job will you get from that?”

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@hoolacambs

2 years

@dunlin57 @sunildvr “Feed the stomach, then the mind”. We knew this during the 1906 Liberal Reforms, 116 years ago, when school meals were introduced.

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@hoolacambs

2 years

Access to the full @ReplacetheM8 event on Tuesday here with an intro lecture by me, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. If you are not using an institutional login, you can create an Echo360 account to access the video.

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@hoolacambs

1 year

Planning deregulation like this will lead to slums of the future. Among the YIMBY right wing rabble screaming that we need “less planning”, it’s worth remembering the state of our cities in the 19th century. Planning is a price worth paying for social and environmental benefit

Vicky Spratt

@Victoria_Spratt

1 year

In 2019, I visited Croydon where there are a high number of PDR conversions. I found "flats" which measured just 9m squared and poorly ventilated box homes which had been sold through the government's Help to Buy scheme as affordable housing...

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2 years

Delighted our planning programmes were accredited by the @RTPIPlanners for another year and now we’re putting our learning into practice in That London @UofGUrbStudies @UofGlasgow

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Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

3 years

Students on the MSc City Planning will be addressing this challenge head on from January 2022 with visions for removing the M8 and restoring Glasgow to its rightful place as a livable, sustainable city @UofGUrbStudies @UofGlasgow @ScotGovPlanning @RTPIScotland @ReplacetheM8

Replace The M8

@ReplacetheM8

3 years

Glasgow 2030? The M8 has been replaced with urban streets for local journeys, homes, workplaces parks and squares. Glasgow is ranked #1 most livable city in Scotland. This is the view of the restored Anderston Cross... 1 day left to sign our petition

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@hoolacambs

1 year

Paul O Grady at the beginning of the last 13 years of Tory terror, savaging into Austerity before it became normalised and voted for by a docile British public. But sure, drag queens are a threat to children 🙄 Drag has often been a political art form.

Tides of History

@labour_history

1 year

Paul O’Grady takes on the “Austerity Budget” live on TV in 2010… “We should let them know that we are not taking these draconian cuts lightly”.

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@hoolacambs

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Another successful @UofGUrbStudies London field trip comeplete. With visits to @ArupUK @kingscrossN1C @Royal_Greenwich @we_made_that and walking tours in Brixton, Hackney, Kings Cross and the West End, to understand London’s complex planning challenges.

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@hoolacambs

2 years

Proof at how how much traffic on the M8 is through traffic and not local traffic. Local neighbourhoods and Glasgow citizens are impacted by regional and national transport demand which could be routed around the city. Time to replace the M8. @ReplacetheM8

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@hoolacambs

1 year

How much money has been wasted by the culture of local bidding in the last decade? Instead of competitive bidding for scraps of funding, shouldn’t we just fund councils WITHOUT conditions on what they spend it on? I guess that would require Whitehall to trust local authorities.

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@hoolacambs

3 years

@Dr_Ammar_Azzouz It's usually privileged UK academics too. Being able to do "interesting" humanitarian scholarship in the "former colonies" is a badge of honour among the middle and upper class academics.

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@hoolacambs

11 months

@Sam_Dumitriu That’s what happens when central govt cuts local gov funding by up to 90% since 2010 and decimates planning depts ability to function.

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@hoolacambs

2 years

Sort out Glasgow's transport or we are not a 'sustainable city', and not worthy of being considered a livable European city. Self-belief is not enough. Action is needed.

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@hoolacambs

2 years

@JimMonaghan10 Looking for second-hand Arket, a Daunt books tote bag, and the same lifestyle I had when I gentrified Peckham and got bored so fancied Glasgow because it’s so cheap. Also any local issues I can hijack with my economic and cultural privilege, give me a shout.

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@hoolacambs

11 months

Disturbed that my native home town’s @courier_dundee allowed this tone deaf diatribe to be published, based on anti-LGBT tropes & shocking ignorance of LGBT history. And gives #Dundee a bad name. Who wants to live in a city with these dinosaurs?

JIM SPENCE: Pride Month theatrics are turning off people like me

When did sexuality become something to be flaunted? And has Pride Month gone too far if elements are now alienating people like Jim?

www.thecourier.co.uk

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@hoolacambs

1 year

This decision has almost done as much damage as Brexit, in my totally unscientific opinion.

Gerry Hassan 🇺🇦

@GerryHassan

1 year

#OTD 60 years ago: 27 March 1963: Richard Beeching, an ICI management executive employed by the UK Govt issued his report leading to huge cuts to the UK railway network. Beeching proposed that 2,363 stations (55%) were closed & of 18,000 miles of rail lines 6,000 miles axed.

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@hoolacambs

11 months

@Theholisticpsyc I’m a big fan of your work, but I wonder sometimes the extent to which US American ideology about individualism negates our collective responsibilities to one another in your analyses? We are all interdependent (an idea that is not popular in the United States).

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@hoolacambs

2 months

What’s ironic about Glasgow’s demolition history is that at one time it was led by the state, whereas these days it’s driven by the market.

reGlasgow

@reglasgow_web

2 months

A property company is proposing to knock down an empty listed building in Glasgow City Centre as part of redevelopment plans.

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@hoolacambs

2 years

As intl experts in planning and transport policy and research, I’m sure many of my colleagues at @UofGUrbStudies will be horrified to see the unsubstantiated vitriol that editors of the Edinburgh Evening News of the @TheScotsman have allowed to be published, against all evidence.

Kirsty Lewin

@KirstyLewin

2 years

I never buy the EEN but a friend just brought this round for me to see. Crikey - this is industrial scale othering of folk who just get around Edinburgh on bikes for ordinary everyday trips 🙈 #cycling

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@hoolacambs

1 month

I could have told you this ten years ago. Such an obvious spiv policy to inflate demand and make people take spurious risks.

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

@CommonsLUHC

1 month

We've found that shared ownership schemes are failing to deliver an affordable route to homeownership. We're calling on the Government to take urgent and significant action to reform how shared ownership works. Read our report 👉

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@hoolacambs

18 days

Perhaps developer contributions can be raised to fund a cap over the M8… 👀

Architects’ Journal

@ArchitectsJrnal

18 days

NEWS: Michael Laird seeks planning permission for contentious Glasgow towers scheme

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@hoolacambs

1 year

Starting to wonder if I should take my students to Paris instead of London in future to see best practice. 👀

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Paris’ first net zero carbon neighbourhood No parking. 30 fruit trees and a residents’ vegetable garden. Insect hotels, bat houses on the roof and even a dry stone wall to accommodate lizards

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@hoolacambs

1 year

I also just don’t get why historically under labour and now under SNP Scotland has failed to recognise Greater Glasgow as a metropolitan region requiring its own mayor, transport authority and strategic planning. What we have now (Clydeplan & SPT) is too weak.

Andrew Hoolachan

@hoolacambs

1 year

@PaulforLangside This is good, but reading the doc it seems the council is keen on private partnerships. Also if the bus system is being integrated with itself surely it needs integrated with subway and train too. We need a transport for greater Glasgow integrated over all modes, not just busses.

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@hoolacambs

2 years

Not sure how an outdoor cafe culture is meant to develop on Pollokshaws Road in Strathbungo with so much noise and toxic air pollution from the traffic and busses. It’s wide enough for a tram route though. @SGHETorg @southsidegreens @ShawbungoCCoun

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@hoolacambs

8 months

Urban planning legends, Kelvingrove organists, topical discussions, creative thinking, delicious lunches, sunkissed walking tours, international scholars, & optimism. #PlannningResearch23 @DrJTWhite @CrenellatedArts @MTJProf @drkierachapman @ConvenorRTPIS @RTPIPlanners

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@hoolacambs

4 months

For my next Halloween costume I will be dressed as a 15 minute city coming to strike to fear into the heart of middle England.

Neil Harris

@drneilharris

4 months

A great one to cut out and keep for rationality and policy-making lectures...

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@hoolacambs

1 year

This decision breaches NPF4 @GlasgowCC because it doesn’t take the climate emergency seriously enough. Would be good to see the rational for the decision. About time @glasgowgreens were in charge who are the only folk taking the climate emergency seriously.

reGlasgow

@reglasgow_web

1 year

Planners have agreed that two drive-thrus — a coffee shop and a restaurant — can be built on vacant land at Ibrox.

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