I travelled back from Edinburgh by car tonight and, form George Street to my home in Newton Mearns took me 1 hour and 10 minutes. What's even more remarkable is that I left George Street at 5.15pm, usually this trip would take me 2 hours or more.
Lots of people didn't make it to work today so there were less cars on the road than normal which I believe made the difference.
That got me thinking about a system I saw in Houston, Texas some years ago; they had a single lane running between the two highways where the traffic travelled in single file into the city in the morning and the same single lane takes traffic out of the city at night. You can only travel in this lane if you are car sharing so, nobody traveling alone is allowed in the "express" lane.
If we introduced a system during rush hours in Glasgow whereby you can only use the outside lane if you are car sharing, we might be able to encourage more people to share the journey and cut the number of cars on the road. Yes, it may seem like a hair-brained scheme but, if you could cut one hour of your traveling time every day and, help the environment at the same time, would it be that mad?
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