West Street subway station serves the Tradeston area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station will become a major interchange if the Glasgow Crossrail is given the green light.
Left in an isolated industrial area by post-war reconstruction, it is the least busy station on the network with just 150,000 boardings in the 12 months to 31 March 2005.
West Street was one of the Park and Ride stations. However, on 16 February 2008, the car park was closed as part of the M74 enabling works. The east side of Shields Road car park is closer to West Street than Shields Road.
Famous quotes containing the words west, street, subway and/or station:
“This place is the longest running farce in the West End.”
—Cyril Smith (b. 1928)
“There was an Old Man who supposed,
That the street door was partially closed;”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)
“In New York—whose subway trains in particular have been “tattooed” with a brio and an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame—not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.... Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the “haves.””
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. “Cleaning and Cleansing,” Myths and Memories (1986)
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)