Recent Developments in Highway Planning in Glasgow.

Hodgen, R; Cullen, J

doi:10.1680/iicep.1968.7753

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“…51 Although, as in Manchester, there had been calls for an integrated public transport system from the 1940s, 52 little was achieved until the Trans-Clyde Transport System was set up in the late 1970s, based on proposals developed a decade earlier. 53 However, as elsewhere, by the 1960s Glasgow was experiencing rapid growth in car ownership (from 59 per 1,000 in 1961 to 85 per 1,000 in 1965), 54 with associated inevitable problems of congestion and urban pollution. Despite some early calls for improved traf®c management, 55 the 1960s and early 1970s saw extensive road improvement schemes in and around the city.…”

Section: Glasgow: Public Transport and Urban Formmentioning

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Commuting, transport and urban form: Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century

Pooley

Turnbull

2000

Urban History

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The paper explores the links between changing transport technology, individual mobility and urban form in the British cities of Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century. The variability of individual commuting preferences is stressed, and it is argued that decisions about the provision of public transport rarely took into account the views of individual commuters. It is also suggested that factors governing modal choice have remained quite stable from the 1930s to the 1960s.The links between transport technology, individual mobility and urban form are an important but elusive aspect of urban history. Studies of nineteenth-century cities have mainly focused on the impact of railways on urban growth, 1 or on the role of omnibuses and trams in the process of suburbanization.2 Because of its size, and more fully developed public transport networks, more attention has been focused on London than on

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Section: Glasgow: Public Transport and Urban Formmentioning

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Commuting, transport and urban form: Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century

Pooley

Turnbull

2000

Urban History

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“…28 Although, as in Manchester, there had been calls for an integrated public transport system from the 1940s, 29 little was achieved until the Trans-Clyde Transport System was set up in the late 1970s, based on proposals developed a decade earlier. 30 However, as elsewhere, by the 1960s Glasgow was experiencing a rapid growth in car ownership (from 59 per thousand in 1961 to 85 per thousand in 1965), 31 with associated inevitable problems of congestion and urban pollution. Despite some early calls for improved traffic management, 32 the 1960s and early 1970s saw extensive road improvement schemes in and around the city.…”

Section: The Development Of Urban Transport In Manchester and Glasgowmentioning

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Coping with congestion: responses to urban traffic problems in British cities c.1920–1960

Pooley

Turnbull

2005

Journal of Historical Geography

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Recent Developments in Highway Planning in Glasgow.

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Commuting, transport and urban form: Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century

Commuting, transport and urban form: Manchester and Glasgow in the mid-twentieth century

Coping with congestion: responses to urban traffic problems in British cities c.1920–1960

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