GLASGOW locals have hit out at the SNP government with claims that Sauchiehall Street, the city’s former “iconic jewel”, is now a lost “ghost town”.
The frustrations come amid snaps of the once-bustling retail centre of the city yesterday, which show its streets destroyed and its boarded-up shops graffitied.
According to reports from 2022, over 35% of the 1.5-mile-long street’s shops, offices and domestic properties lay vacant.
Now, residents in Scotland’s largest city say the former retail heavyweight street has potentially been lost forever as a result of the SNP’s government.
Images of the dilapidated street shared to social media show the street in all its sorrow.
The street is lined by closed-down and boarded-up shops lathered in graffiti with large ugly fencing holding in the worksite that lines the middle of the road.
Pedestrians are forced to walk down slim gaps on either side of the building sight to avoid the seemingly abandoned repair works in the middle of the street.
Works started to repair Sauchiehall’s paving months ago have since been left at a standstill with the construction stopped midway and the ugly building site left to dominate the street.
Locals have been left furious at the Green and SNP coalition city council over the state of the street with many citing memories of shopping on the street as kids now long gone.
The snaps of the street were shared to social media yesterday with the caption: “This is Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow on 9 April, 2024. A tangible reminder of life under the SNP.
“The once iconic jewel in Glasgow’s retail crown has been lost – potentially forever.”
The post received over 1,000 likes and more than 180 comments from users who vented their rage at the council in the comments.
One user said: “Pretty sad to see… was always jumping at the weekend, especially Saturday night. Ghost town now.”
Another added: “Glasgow’s the [toilet] of Scotland.”
A third commented: “More evidence of how nationalism can destroy a once great city.”
Another replied: “Bound to die after St Enoch and Buchanan Galleries in city centre.”
