| Comment | Lots of people on social media replying that it doesn't reach 30 mph in parts at rush hour anyway, are slightly missing the point.
The council has limited powers over the motorway but appears now to have some settled ambition to redesign it in the longer term.
While building the overall business and strategic case for a redesign / downgrade / full tunnelling boulevardisation of the city centre motorway stretch (something which will take years) there are a few things the council can do to act in the shorter term. Not only for the sake of it, but to make those changes easier when the time comes.
One of these things is to take steps to make the M74 the main regional east-west corridor. A quick way of making this reducing the speed limits on the city centre M8, so that navigation apps like Google Maps treat the M74 as the default option for the majority of journeys. |
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