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Author	eenbiertje
Comment	The outer ring road. Yep it's a shame that wasn't done as the priority rather than the inner ring. I can fully understand the logic of the time though. The inner ring was seen as more pressing to take car traffic off the surface streets in and around the city centre, particularly along Paisley Road West and Alexandra Parade, which had been the main east-west route for all regional traffic up until then. The outer-most ring would've gone roughly from the Erskine Bridge to Paisley, SE to Barrhead then East Kilbride, then up to roughly where the M73 is, before crossing the northern edge of the city between Gartosh, Cadder, Bearsden then Old Kilpatrick where it would meet the Erskine Bridge again. I favour getting rid of the M8 city centre corridor, but we need to be realistic that vehicles still need to use some route to cross (bypass) the city. The M74 could handle traffic flowing south of the city. But realistically you'd need a northern orbital, otherwise Great Western Road becomes the only main east-west route.
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Created	Sat 12th Feb 2022 1:25pm
Status	normal ()

The outer ring road. Yep it's a shame that wasn't done as the priority rather than the inner ring.

I can fully understand the logic of the time though. The inner ring was seen as more pressing to take car traffic off the surface streets in and around the city centre, particularly along Paisley Road West and Alexandra Parade, which had been the main east-west route for all regional traffic up until then.

The outer-most ring would've gone roughly from the Erskine Bridge to Paisley, SE to Barrhead then East Kilbride, then up to roughly where the M73 is, before crossing the northern edge of the city between Gartosh, Cadder, Bearsden then Old Kilpatrick where it would meet the Erskine Bridge again.

I favour getting rid of the M8 city centre corridor, but we need to be realistic that vehicles still need to use some route to cross (bypass) the city.

The M74 could handle traffic flowing south of the city. But realistically you'd need a northern orbital, otherwise Great Western Road becomes the only main east-west route.