Latest plans for Glasgow Metro unveiled in Parliament
Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has been making a statement to MSPs.
Last updated 20th Jan 2022
Plans for a Glasgow Metro have been laid out by Scotland's Transport Secretary in Holyrood this afternoon.
Michael Matheson told MSPs the project will improve public transport routes for 1.5 million people across the Central Belt.
He said: “The investment decisions we make now have never been more important.
"A green recovery from COVID-19 will set us on a path to delivering a fair and just transition to Net Zero.
"The pandemic has led to fundamental shifts in travel behaviours and we want to ensure that people continue to make sustainable travel choices, that they return to public transport and our economic recovery does not overly rely on road-based travel."
The routes would help connect towns like Clydebank and Cambuslang or Easterhouse and East Kilbride.
Cllr Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council said: Today’s announcement marks a major step forward in our commitment to creating a modern, sustainable, integrated public transport system for the city of Glasgow and its surrounding metropolitan region.
"Clyde Metro’s inclusion in the STPR2 report is a huge vote of confidence in the work done to date by Transport Scotland and the City Council in advancing the concept and the compelling case for it.
“Metro will be transformational - reducing social and economic inequalities, delivering on economic growth, better connecting outlying and poorly served communities.
“Over the past several decades, modern rapid transit systems like Metro are what Glasgow’s comparator cities across the globe have been busy constructing.
"We cannot continue to be left behind."