More transport stupidity

[dc]

I have managed to make it to Stobhill by way of the bus now, janimoon’s info was very helpful; I don’t think I would have got the right stop without it. However, there is a substantial bit of hill between there and the hospital, and as I thought my father wouldn’t really be able to cope with it. (This must be one of the highest hills in Glasgow, possibly the highest; today, the tops of the four high blocks of flats janimoon mentioned were hidden by cloud today.)

The buses which actually go into the hospital though: as I have said before, there are only two and they stop just after 5pm; I discovered today that one of them does not run at all on a Sunday. How bloody stupid is that? Do SPT think no one needs to visit hospitals on a Sunday? Or that everyone who does is young and fit enough to walk up that hill? They certainly can’t assume everyone has a car: the last time I saw the statistics, Glasgow had the lowest per capita car ownership of any UK city — not surprising, really, because it is quite a compact city with very good transport on the whole. This, though, is very poorly thought out.

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Re: Highest point in Glasgow

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I thought it must be, unless there were a higher point on the South Side. (Couldn't think of one, though.) It did strike me as an odd place to build flats; and for that matter, the whole design of that bit of road is a little odd. If I were in charge of building there and had decided to put up some flats of some sort, I would have also put in some sort of viewpoint — that view to the west and north is stupendous.