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Glasgow study report approved in principle
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• Glasgow Corporation are accepting in principle the recommendations of the Greater Glasgow Transportation Study report, which proposed a £462m plan for a radical development of road, rail and public transport facilities. The corporation's special committee on public transport facilities has recommended approval in principle.
Other committees closely concerned, inducting municipal transport, highways, and planning, will now deal in detail with the report, which has cost more than £380,000.
Lord Provost Donald Liddle, who chaired the committee meeting on February 12, said that he had been keen to press on with consideration of the GGTS report prepared after four years' work under Mr. Thomas Lambie, study director.
He added: "I felt we had to get down to the point of accepting the recommendations or not. It was not whether we can implement them, or finance them; at this stage that is to some extent beside the point.
"The important thing was to declare whether we accept or reject them, and we have now recommended to the corporation that the study report be accepted in principle."
The Lord Provost said the committee had continued consideration of the Government's decision to set up a PTA, announced last week, in order to examine the letter from the Secretary of State. The corporation's attitude would be decided within the next month.
"The PTA is a matter of urgency, and the municipal transport committee will be having a look at the matter next week, and my committee will deal with the matter later. We have been given until April to make our comments, but we are not going to let this drag on," he added.
Cllr. Tom Fulton said: "While today's meeting approved in principle the recommendations in the GGTS, it is doubtful if the main recommendations have been launched on a course which will ensure early implementation in accordance with the needs of the 1970s and 1980s. There are signs that the highways programme has already fallen behind schedule". Cllr. Fulton said that the sooner the PTA was set up, the better. A new authority with overall powers was needed to get ahead with the implementation of the highways, bus and rail networks, and to improve radically the whole outlook on public transport.
The GGTS report, covering an area in a 10-mile radius of Glasgow, was commissioned in 1964 by the corporation, the Scottish Development Department, the Clyde Valley planning authorities, British Railways, and the Scottish Bus Group.