Decline and Fall - Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street


Kevin McKenna in The Herald adding his voice to those who say that Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street is an embarrassment - a national disgrace!

Among the UK’s most charismatic and historic thoroughfares, perhaps only Piccadilly Circus has a greater social media presence. If you’d never visited Sauchiehall Street you’d have pause to wonder why so many people care about this anointed urban realm. Andrew Neil, one of Britain’s most influential and successful journalists, was the latest to despair of the apocalypse that’s befallen this street.

 


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