• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

Glasgow wins 'smart city' government cash

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Glasgow wins 'smart city' government cash

    "Glasgow has won a £24m UK government grant intended to make it one of the UK's first smart cities.

    It will use the money on projects to demonstrate how a city of the future might work.

    They will include better services for Glaswegians, with real-time information about traffic and apps to check that buses and trains are on time.

    The council will also create an app for reporting issues such as potholes and missing bin collections."

    BBC News - Glasgow wins 'smart city' government cash

    Ya cannae make that up ...

    #2
    Well that is waste of money.

    Comment


      #3
      Cash well allocated IMHO; hope they don't blow it all at once and it's a sucessful project.

      Looking forward to national deployment...

      one day at a time

      Comment


        #4
        wouldn't it be better if they had an app which showed the 'weegies which booze shop has the best deal on tennants super strength and tied that into the app to show which is the best bus/train to get there?



        Comment


          #5
          You really wouldn't think we're running a 100 billion deficit.

          Comment


            #6
            whats £24 million out of £100 billion - not even worth thinking about?

            Comment


              #7
              Originally posted by original PM View Post
              whats £24 million out of £100 billion - not even worth thinking about?
              It is when you add up all these other bollocks things.

              Comment


                #8
                Good for Glasgow - but I don't think they needed it - there is a lot of civic pride there and in my opinion a well kept city. Its a successful project already - maybe thats why they done it.

                if anywhere needed it, it would be Bradford - place has gone to ruin and nobody gives a tulipetulip

                Comment


                  #9
                  Originally posted by Fishface View Post
                  Good for Glasgow - but I don't think they needed it - there is a lot of civic pride there and in my opinion a well kept city. Its a successful project already - maybe thats why they done it.
                  Glasgow is a feckin shit: hole, the luck they had when the nazis bombed Clydebank night after night and never went 15 miles up the river was lost when the wrecking ball came in during the 60s and knocked the buggery out of it. Social utopia, first motorway city, high rised living and all that.

                  Comment


                    #10
                    Originally posted by AtW View Post
                    "Glasgow has won a £24m UK government grant intended to make it one of the UK's first smart cities.

                    It will use the money on projects to demonstrate how a city of the future might work.

                    They will include better services for Glaswegians, with real-time information about traffic and apps to check that buses and trains are on time.

                    The council will also create an app for reporting issues such as potholes and missing bin collections."

                    BBC News - Glasgow wins 'smart city' government cash

                    Ya cannae make that up ...
                    Ya cannae make that up ... Try harder, I can still detect your Russian accent
                    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    X