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Author	Torran_Toi
Comment	> Realistically though, I agree, this might mean we need to revisit the unbuilt outer ring roads (the unbuilt Kelvindale expressway, and a Paisley-East Kilbride motorway) to compensate. > > On the whole when looking back at the unbuilt highway plan for Glasgow, I think it was always a huge mistake to focus on the inner ring road first. The "middle ring" as it might be called might have ended up doing much of the work the M8 does, but with much less impact on the core of the city. In the end, I think completing the East End Regeneration Route and building it into something resembling the original East Link motorway might need to be done - if it means repairing the city centre at Anderson, Charing Cross and Townhead. 100%. The northern flank of the outer ring, which would take a route roughly from Baillieston to Stepps to Kirky to Baljaffray to Clydebank to Erskine, would heavily ease M8 congestion. What's more is the land on which that particular route would have been built all is undeveloped nothingness still today. Building it wouldn't have much impact in the same way building the inner ring road did. The east end regen route that would go from the Clyde Gateway finally connecting what would have been the east side of the intermediate ring (Polmadie to Provan via Parkhead) definitely should be built. Funding was secured for this a few years ago and then disappeared into the ether. Some of the intermediate expressways would help too, but it's too late to even think about building them. No way will the majority of residents approve of Pollokshaws road becoming an expressway, for example, as much as the route sorely needs it.
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Created	Sat 19th Sep 2020 4:34pm
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> Realistically though, I agree, this might mean we need to revisit the unbuilt outer ring roads (the unbuilt Kelvindale expressway, and a Paisley-East Kilbride motorway) to compensate.
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> On the whole when looking back at the unbuilt highway plan for Glasgow, I think it was always a huge mistake to focus on the inner ring road first. The "middle ring" as it might be called might have ended up doing much of the work the M8 does, but with much less impact on the core of the city. In the end, I think completing the East End Regeneration Route and building it into something resembling the original East Link motorway might need to be done - if it means repairing the city centre at Anderson, Charing Cross and Townhead.

100%. The northern flank of the outer ring, which would take a route roughly from Baillieston to Stepps to Kirky to Baljaffray to Clydebank to Erskine, would heavily ease M8 congestion. What's more is the land on which that particular route would have been built all is undeveloped nothingness still today. Building it wouldn't have much impact in the same way building the inner ring road did.

The east end regen route that would go from the Clyde Gateway finally connecting what would have been the east side of the intermediate ring (Polmadie to Provan via Parkhead) definitely should be built. Funding was secured for this a few years ago and then disappeared into the ether.

Some of the intermediate expressways would help too, but it's too late to even think about building them. No way will the majority of residents approve of Pollokshaws road becoming an expressway, for example, as much as the route sorely needs it.