People are asking questions - if its this broke, & under-used outside peak hours, why are we bothering to keep it
https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE1906
Next on the list West Approach Road?
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Petition to review future for M8 in Centre of Glasgow
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Oh that would be so wonderful.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I suppose the answer is where will all the rush hour vehicles go?
The western approach is merely a pimped up road.
The m8 through Glasgow is a six lane highway that destroyed communities when it was built. The more apt comparison is with the Edinburgh bypass
Posted 2 years ago # -
My feeling with the Western Approach is either create a high line-style wilderness corridor through the city (with proper paved cycle & pedestrian path integrated) or actually use it properly ie. filter Fountainbridge, get rid of the Shandon slip road & put a roundabout there to allow the Roseburn rat runs to be bypassed and filtered too etc etc
Posted 2 years ago # -
"actually use it properly"
As in, restoring railway tracks with a station on Lothian Road? Not a bad idea...
Posted 2 years ago # -
I think the first option would be better. Ideally you'd want the area bounded by Lothian Road, Melville Drive, the Bridges, and Queen Street to be completely car-free except for the minimum necessary loading permits and residential access for the elderly and disabled, and then turn the neighbourhoods around that area into LTNs, so there shouldn't be a need for any kind of "feeder" roads into or out of the city centre.
Whether the council have the stones to go that far is another matter.
Posted 2 years ago # -
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Back in early 1972, mere days before the opening of the Charing Cross section of Glasgow’s controversial inner ring-road, Hanley, an esteemed journalist, novelist and lyricist, wrote a long and thoughtful article for the Glasgow Herald. The city’s ring-road plan, he began, was bold, imaginative and startling and, if it all went through, “the result will be a monument to [Glasgow] Corporation’s ability to think big.
“Unfortunately,” he added, “it isn’t much fun living in a monument. More and more people are coming to the view that they would rather live in a city, while simultaneously the current planning philosophy is trying to make less and less city available for them”.
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23453466.m8-glasgow-scrapped/
Posted 1 year ago #
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