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Article: Nite Zone scheme to expand as crime falls Plan to set up safety scheme in busy Sauchiehall Street to make sure revellers get home quickly
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- May 8, 2006
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A LATE-NIGHT scheme aimed at keeping Glasgow's streets safe is
being expanded.
A second Nite Zone - a transport hub with wardens designed to get
revellers home quickly after a night out - is being set up at
Sauchiehall Street.
Deputy council leader Jim Coleman says the scheme is needed to
tame the area, which he describes as being like "the wild west" on
busy nights.
And council and police bosses are also making the city's first
Nite Zone, at Central Station, bigger.
The moves come just weeks after the Evening Times revealed violent
crime in the city centre had fallen by a fifth after the introduction
of the scheme.
The Charing Cross end of Sauchiehall Street is home to a large
number of ...