We should be educating people about city’s history WEEK IN PICTURES
WHY don’t we just start with education (Call to change city street names,
Friday)?
I was educated in Glasgow but not once did I ever learn the real history of our city.
I think education far outweighs a simple street name change.
Stephen Robertson
Via Facebook
WE shouldn’t get rid of the names, we should set about teaching our children exactly where the names come from.
The names are there as a constant reminder of the role Scotland, and Glasgow particularly, played in the slave trade, erasing them all and replacing them with new names would just feel like absolving ourselves of any blame and ignoring the part we played.
Better to keep them, have plaques with the stories and information of the people they were named after and a memorial/ museum built to honour the slaves and people of colour who have been written out of our city’s history.
John James Swift
Via Facebook
SLAVE owners and traders should not have the distinguished honour of having a street in Glasgow named after them.
They should be named after Glasgow’s real heroes like George Parsonage and Mary Barbour.
Alan D’Arcy
Via Facebook
ONCE again the UK Government has had to cave in to demand for face coverings on public transport.
For weeks they have denied this was necessary in the same way that they have mishandled the quarantine issue.
They have totally mishandled this crisis and their bumbling and fumbling has led to many deaths and they are a total embarrassment.
MA
Glasgow
TOW the cars away, impound them and make the owners pay the costs to get their vehicles back (Cops called to West End after residents parking blocks council bin truck, Glasgow Times online).
They’ll soon change their selfish parking habits.
James McPherson
Posted online
WHAT about the potholes and our pavements that are not safe to walk on (Changes to city centre streets in aid of social distancing, Thursday)?
Or is everything for George Square? Will wait to see how many will be on their bikes when the rain comes and the blizzards in the winter. Betty McCormick Posted online
GLASGOW City Council needs to get the priorities right (Tens of thousands of litter fines handed out, Friday). At Central Station a person can drop a train ticket or a cigarette end and have an on-the-spot fine but right next to that person there are aggressive beggars and junkies dealing right in front of the station with
the police doing nothing about it. Ross Ellis
Posted online
MORE bins is one solution.
Better education in schools on the reasons why it’s so important to use a bin is another.
Civic pride needs to be taught at a much younger age. The total lack of respect for our streets, roads, parks and beaches is disgusting.
Jill Ferguson
Via Facebook