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rotten milk wrote:http://www.pathetic.org.uk/features/mighthavebeen/conurbations/glasgow.shtml
shows the intended new motorways etc. (hover your cursor over the roads to show the name)
clicking on the roads leads you to:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/glasgow/
this discusses what was supposed to happen under the 1965 'glasgow highway development plan' which resulted in the report 'a highway plan for glasgow'
this included the inner ring road, of which the M8 is all that was actually built.
linked to this there were the other motorways/expressways, of which there are indications that they were actually planned for, even if they never got built e.g. the ski-jumps, the unfinished 'Maryhill' junction between j16 and j17 etc.(click on 'the legacy')
there is a google earth overlay available to show the routes of the new roads and how they all linked together.
a footnote to the article states:
" Research carried out at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow ......All the information in this section is sourced directly from "A Highway Plan for Glasgow" and "The Greater Glasgow Transportation Study", except where text or links indicate otherwise. "
If you could get a swatch at either of these documents, they could maybe confirm the existence, in idea of nothing else, of a 'loch lomond' motorway - given what was planned and even got partially built, it doesn't sound too unlikely!
MyNewLogIn wrote:Well Done. You appear to have managed to get to result 4 when searching for "Lomond Motorway" on Google whilst simultaneously ignoring all the helpful links given to you thus far.
I don't now if the properties to which you refer were part of the plans for the 'Maryhill Motorway', the 'Trossachs Motorway' or the "North Link Motorway". As you mention Crow Road perhaps it was even the "Clyde Tunnel Expressway" you're thinking of, although that would be odd as it was built pretty much as per the plan.
So again, try these links:
http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=642&p=109335&hilit=Highway+Plan+for+Glasgow#p109335
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/glasgow/
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/glasgow/maps.shtml
and in particular, try the Google Overlay map on the third link. It will show you the exact routes of all motorways planned in the post-war madness...
Dexter St. Clair wrote:Several compulsory purchases of Houses on Crow were made in anticipation of widening the road. A similar plan was also introduced for Great Western Road this time by removing the pavements and widening the road. Paths were established on either side of GWR as it ran through Kelvinside. But the plan was dropped.
Nosht wrote:Dexter St. Clair wrote:Several compulsory purchases of Houses on Crow were made in anticipation of widening the road. A similar plan was also introduced for Great Western Road this time by removing the pavements and widening the road. Paths were established on either side of GWR as it ran through Kelvinside. But the plan was dropped.
Quite so.
The plan was to create a massive underpass, junction & multi level flyover at Anniesland Cross, various interlinking roads & a dual carriageway along Great Western Road which would stop at Kelvinbridge but there were NO plans to widen the bridge. Plans were very advanced to compulsory purchase ground at Old Anniesland playing fields, Crow Road & the gardens & terraces of houses on Gt. Western Road from Hyndland Road to Byres Road but a change of government stopped all planning thank goodness.
We still suffer today from the this planning as all the side streets along Maryhill Road, Great Western Road & Crow Road were blocked off earlier to advance the flow of traffic onto specific roads thereby flasely increasing the traffic flows which would then justify the massive expenditure & road alterations.
Regards,
N.
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