| Comment | Trouble is that stretch of the M8's not deep enough.
The early renders for the planned cover at Charing Cross only go about 1 block to the south, to roughly level with Bath Street, with a little wedge/wrap around connecting it to the Mitchell Library.
But further south than that and the motorway simply isn't low enough to stick a roof on.
The logical thing to do would be burrow the road a couple meters lower to give room for lorries and buses, but problem is that there's a humongous water pipe (and other utilities running North/South directly underneath the middle of the lanes there).
Anything a possible, but the cost of doing it quickly jumps from "let's pop a roof on this section of road" to "major root and branch infrastructure project affecting the whole city". |
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