Steel figures of famous people with links to Glasgow are to be placed on a new walking and cycling route linking the city's west end to Central Station.
Billy Connolly, Rikki Fulton and Lulu are in the running to have
statues erected in their honour in their home city.
Only three spaces are available and others on the shortlist
include independent MSP Margo MacDonald, artist Alasdair Gray,
boxer Jim Watt, union leader Jimmy Reid and television presenter
Tom Weir.
Sir Thomas Lipton, the creator of the Lipton tea brand, inventor
James Watt, Marion Gilchrist, the first woman to gain a medical
degree, and John Craig, a community activist from the Anderston
area, make up the list of nominees.
Bike charity Sustrans, which received £50m from the Big Lottery
Fund in 2007 to extend its National Cycle Network across the UK, is
building a portrait bench along the new route, which will feature
three lifesize 2D figures of the heroes.
The scheme is part of the project to complete Glasgow's Bridge
to Nowhere, which has been left high and dry for 40 years.
The bridge, built over the M8 in the 1970s, was intended to link
Anderston to the city centre but was not finished by the developer
and ends in mid-air over the Mariott Hotel car park.
The £1.3 million completion of the bridge will link Kelvingrove
Park to Central Station, creating a new route for pedestrians and
cyclists.
Source:
The Herald - Bid to select stars