| Comment | Quick plug for the petition calling for an urgent review investigating the possibility of removing / downgrading the city centre section of the M8: https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE1906
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Those repair costs that u/Specialist-Product45 cites are eye watering! £415 million? I heard £35 million recently, but presumably that could've been just for the repairs to the Woodside Viaduct.
As you say u/LordAnubis12 it's an astonishing sum of money, absolutely dwarfing transport spend on other modes, whether active travel or public transport.
If the repairs go ahead, that could be another 50+ years of the motorway and its embodied carbon footprint, not to mention the immense waste of land space that it causes next to the city centre and dislocation it causes between city centre and nearby neighbourhoods.
How this can be going ahead at this time, without any apparent enquiry or pause to consider its value as we're already experiencing the early years of a prolonged climate crisis is completely beyond me.
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