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@DavesBikeShed: This is the final side of the motorway box dream of City planning 1940,s/50's. Intellectually bankrupt. FAIL. https://t.co/e9oPAHLNzb
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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
"£60m completion of motorway link road in Glasgow's east end given green light"
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Posted 9 years ago #
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So 50% more than the entire active travel budget is being spent on 1 mile of road.
Makes me want to move my family to the Netherlands.
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Hmm. It's not quite ready to roll yet.
"A council spokesman said all issues of land ownership and administrative and legal requirements had been dealt with.
The authority expects the Scottish Government Regeneration Capital Grant Fund, Shovel Ready Funding or Council Capital Funding to fund the scheme."
So they don't actually have the money yet. Whether it gets built presumably depends on money being found.
Posted 9 years ago # -
So basically yet another road taking the place of what was once a railway route, in this case the Caley's Glasgow Lines from Parkhead Jn to Blackhill Locks, but now connecting the M8 and M80 with the Clyde Gateway which can only dream about being a motorway. Alas its hard shoulders are taken up by special lanes for #bloodycyclists.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I thought that was a done deal a while ago. I know someone with an allotment and he said they were being closed for the new road.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I thought CCE might be rolling its collective eyes over this. I particularly liked the BBC's neutral take on the project;
"The first two stages of the East End Regeneration Route are in place around Oatlands, Polmadie and Celtic Park."
Because that's what urban motorways do. They regenerate the areas they traverse. It's well known and we all dream of living in Finnieston don't we?
Posted 9 years ago # -
Naw, it's got tae be Cowcaddens. Ye canna beat a bit of city centre concrete pedestrian underpass for a thrill late at nicht.
Posted 9 years ago # -
That one, beside the big daft flowers, is worrying on a bike. It feels a bit low.
Posted 9 years ago # -
This one I presume. I've ridden this on the Pashley Fold-it and it was okay:
Though I was thinking of this one:
Particularly useful when it rains a lot, which of course never usually happens in Glesca:
Posted 9 years ago # -
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This web site offers links to past freeway removal stories as well us some proposed freeway removals around the world: http://www.preservenet.com/freeways/index.html
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Posted 9 years ago # -
There's a lot of interesting history on that site although some sections would benefit from an update. I particularly like the word Velorution, it certainly won't be motorised.
Posted 9 years ago #
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