River bus along Clydecouldbe perfect way to link airport to the city centre
PINSTRIPE missed the most beneficial use of the River Clyde (“Get a move on, the River Clyde is going nowhere”, Herald Business, August 22).
A few years ago, I pointed out to Glasgow Airport’s managing director, Amanda McMillan, that instead of lamenting the demise of the light rail scheme, she should be campaigning to use the River Clyde.
The river is at the end of the north runway. Without millions of pounds of costs, a river-based bus service to the city centre could easily be introduced, similar to London’s Thames Clippers. All that would be required are a few boats, a new pier at the end of the runway and a simple transit system to get to the pier from the terminal.
The rest would be as Pinstripe described.
Glasgow Airport to Glasgow Central at rush hour: less than 15 minutes. Stewart MacKenzie, 16 Monreith Road, Newlands, Glasgow. PINSTRIPE’S column had me waiting for him to suggest a monorail link above the river to Glasgow Airport. Suchalinkwouldbeapositiveand futuristic statement for Glasgow and the Clyde. An airport link largely on the line of the river from the city centre would have clear advantages and opportunities over the long proposed, but flawed, route via Paisley. The two stops on the way would be for the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Braehead.
Pinstripe’s fast passenger ferries to the Clyde towns could operate from Braehead, which would provide an adequate shopping destination for the day trippers up the Clyde who do not need to visit the city centre.
Elevated monorail systems are now used to great and dramatic effect in many locations for rapid people transit. Why not on the Clyde? Archie Robertson, 5 Ashaig, Skye.