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MegaCity Ane

[danieldwilliam]

I think Scotland ought to actively seek to integrate the urban areas of Edinburgh and Glasgow. I like the idea of an Ebinburgh-Glasgow-Central Belt greater city area. I think it's the sort of the thing that would drive economic growth in Scotland. MegaCity Ane for the win.

When I think about the tube journeys that people are happy to take - a 40 minute journey with a frequency of 6 an hour seems like an entry grade offering.

RE: MegaCity Ane

[andrewducker]

Totally.

And if they can knock it down to half an hour with 8 an hour then that massively increases the throuhput, and makes commuting a lot nicer as a choice than it currently is!

RE: MegaCity Ane

[skington]

I used to commute from Glasgow to Edinburgh, and the major pain of the commute wasn't the subway from my flat to Queen Street, or the train (especially once you started getting trains every 15 minutes), but the bus (or walk) from Waverley to the office in Leith.

RE: MegaCity Ane

[andrewducker]

Well, if the council gets its arse into gear and lays the rest of the tram track it already laid then you'll be able to take one of those. From Haymarket even, if such things would be better.

Was the bus down Leith Walk that bad though? There are a load of them that go from the top of Waverley Steps down towards Leith. Did there not used to be?

RE: MegaCity Ane

[octopoid_horror]

The bit from Waverley to the top of Leith Walk is incredibly slow a lot of the time. When I got the 22 to work (before the tram was a Thing), sometimes a third of the journey time from Elm Row to South Gyle would be spent getting from Elm Row to Waverley and generally at least half would be taken up Elm Row to the end of Princes Street.

Re: MegaCity Ane

[andrewducker]

True, at rush hour it is definitely sometimes faster to walk along Princes Street and down Leith Street.

RE: MegaCity Ane

[skington]

From what I remember, they were irregular enough that if I'd missed the bus back the way I'd just set off and walk, and maybe a bus would pass me when I was 2/3rds of the way there.

RE: MegaCity Ane

[skington]

I believe that the Central Belt is the only part of the world where, at night from space, you can see a continuous band of light from one coast to another.

Having said that, there's a fair bit of empty space in the bits between e.g. Coatbridge and Bathgate.

RE: MegaCity Ane

[a_pawson]

If you follow the route of the M8 there is certainly a lot of green, but if you follow the route of the M80 from Glasgow through Stepps, Cumbernauld, Denny and Falkirk, then down to Grangemouth, I'm pretty sure there would be lights the entire way. There's not a lot of green space if you look at it on Google Earth.

Re: MegaCity Ane

[errolwi]

How are you excluding cities like Auckland, that are only a few km across (and 10km between coastal shipping wharves on opposite coasts)?