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the problem with that is that it's really an enormous pain and an environmental hazard (more so than the motorway anyway) to drive from the north of glasgow to the south (i.e. from the m8 to the m74 anyway) so if someone from say springburn wanted to drive to the airport or out to the ferries at gourock say theyd have to traipse all the way through the east end on surface roads. there was a plan to make a new road linking parkhead to the m80 following the old railway line, this is why theres that fairly pointless roundabout at the forge going up towards asda. a road was supposed to go north over the extant railway line and following the line of the old one(you can see the route clearly on google map). but if you can the m8 and build that youre just replacing one road with a far less efficient one (i dont think theres room to make it any more than just a basic road with one lane each way). also i dont want a major road right beside my allotment haha

i just honestly think you were to do something like youre proposing glaswegians would regret it very very quickly. and i really dont see what the big deal is, i mean its depressed through charing cross for a reason, and whos even really hanging about charing cross anyway. and i guess the kingston might be a bit of an eyesore if youre living right by it but it just looks like a bridge to me. the only bad thing i will say about the m8 is that the bits UNDER it (in both anderston and up royston/woodside) are very unpleasant