| Comment | > Crosshill which is surprisingly a conservation area
If memory serves rightly, I think residents successfully fought for the areas surrounding Queen's Park to become conservation areas so to prevent plans for demolishing all those tenements and smashing a motorway and expressway through the south side.
Roughly, and again from patchy memory, Queens Park itself would have been obliterated and a motorway built right through it (going east to west). That motorway would have intersectioned with the M77 at Dumbreck... Dumbreck Road and Titwood Road would be motorway, right through the park and then heading south east eventually hitting East Kilbride.
Then the route of Eglinton Street > Pollokshaws Rd > Kilmarnock Rd >Fenwick Rd ... was to become an southside expressway which would have had an intersection with the motorway around where the Bp petrol station is on Pollokshaws Rd.
It's also the reason for the Arcade on Kilmarnock Rd was built higher than the street level. It was designed so that the pedestrian arcade would have been at a different height level to the fast moving traffic below.
Conservation status scuppered those plans. |
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