A spiral ramp leading up to a pedestrian walkway over the M8 in the Anderston area of Glasgow. This is needed because the motorway, built in the 1960s, sliced this community in two. As a result, land which used to be occupied by homes and businesses has become a dead space, now occupied by a spiral of concrete, and has been for the last 60 years.
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@Christo_459 @thisismyglasgow all forward looking Uk cities had ambitious plans to run motorways through their centres
- London: ringways, of which the M25 is only the outer of the three; I think the A40 westway is a relic too
- Bristol inner city ring road, linking to the M32 and with an interchange built over the harbour.
These would have destroyed what people like about these cities today.
Glasgow not only built a motorway through its centre: they still do it. The M77 though pollok estate? 1980s? Whatever goes past Uddingston -early 90s?
All i i know is what whenever I made a sporadic visit to grandparents, there were always new motorways replacing the nice green areas.
Last UK relic of the cargo cult of "motorways bring economic growth"
This Is My Glasgow
Christo. London, England
Steve Loughran