| Comment | The M74 should officially be made the priority strategic East-West route, allowing the city stretch of the M8 to be wound down. It could be downgraded, with junctions trimmed down, to an a-road, and maybe even eventually removed.
The city section of the M8 is only the strategic artery between east and west that it is today because it's the only part of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road that was actually built. It was never meant to be the main east-west cord. Only an a connector for the southern motorway network and the maryhill motorway.
The southern and eastern flanks of the ring road were the ones that were meant to do the heavy lifting in terms of traffic. That's why the M8 is only 4 lanes wide through Charing Cross.
With the M74 having been completed, it is essentially the southern flank of the ring road, and should take the weight of regional traffic bypassing Glasgow.
The ring road concept was chucked in the bin, and to be slightly curt about it, we should chuck the Kingston Bridge and M8 (from Anderson to Townhead) in the bin too. |
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