| Comment | I see the logic. Removing or downgrading the city centre section of motorway opens the question to how vehicles from Bearsden or Anniesland or East Dumbartonshire cross the city eastwards.
An outer ring road is what we should have led with in the 60s. I understand the arguments for why this didn't happen (and why the inner ring was prioritised and the outer ring was at the bottom of the list for the network), but cities across Europe avoided motorways hugging their urban cores by having outer rings.
In reality, I don't see it ever happening. It would likely be tens of billions of pounds in today's money. 10s of billions would buy you brand new metro systems for Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee, with money left over for an expansion of the national rail network among other things. Just as an example. I don't see how the case for it would ever make sense in the context of today's national budgets and priorities. |
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