| Comment | It's not just "how people get around Glasgow" - the M8 is major part of the trunk road network for the entire west of Scotland.
Now, in an ideal world this kind of arterial link wouldn't be running around a city centre, but we are where we are and nobody is going to come up with the huge sums required for an outer ring road, never mind getting it built in the current climate.
The whole point of the current two-lane arrangement is to reduce the load on the structure whilst keeping the road open. It would be far easier and quicker to close it entirely and either fix or completely rebuild it, but you can't do that without huge knock-on effects across a very wide area. |
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