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DavidMcD316 wrote:it is strange how far they built the town centre from the train station and also how they never built a station in Abronhill, but one 30 seconds away in Greenfaulds.
yoker brian wrote:DavidMcD316 wrote:it is strange how far they built the town centre from the train station and also how they never built a station in Abronhill, but one 30 seconds away in Greenfaulds.
A station was proposed for Abronhill within the last 3 years - it may yet happen if the wires are extended beyond Cumbernauld to Stirling / Dunblane (again this was looked at as part of the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Plan with the line through Cumbernauld providing a diversionary route, to the main line) - Not seen the latest EGIP Plans so don't know when / if it will happen
It's a shame that this brilliant idea of separating cars and pedestrians isn't really safe in the 21st Century lest you get stabbed by a ned in an underpass.
Fauldsman wrote:It's a shame that this brilliant idea of separating cars and pedestrians isn't really safe in the 21st Century lest you get stabbed by a ned in an underpass.
This is the point in the conversation when some one who lives here steps in and proclaims that it's not all that unsafe and that you can get stabbed anywhere
Straddling a divided four-lane highway on a windy hilltop northeast of Glasgow is a chaotic architectural montage of interconnected buildings and passages of various sizes, shapes and colors that has become internationally famous: the all-in-one city center of the new town of Cumbernauld. The irregular mass of stores, offices, apartments, a hotel and a church seems to be constantly in motion; as you approach, it takes on a different shape with every change in angle. It was meant to be the pulsating heart of Cumbernauld.
commandlinegamer wrote:The following article was posted on this, or a similar topic, previously, but the original link is dead, so I'm reposting it for anybody new to this discussion:
The Disappointing New Towns of Britain
http://aliciapatterson.org/stories/disa ... at-britainStraddling a divided four-lane highway on a windy hilltop northeast of Glasgow is a chaotic architectural montage of interconnected buildings and passages of various sizes, shapes and colors that has become internationally famous: the all-in-one city center of the new town of Cumbernauld. The irregular mass of stores, offices, apartments, a hotel and a church seems to be constantly in motion; as you approach, it takes on a different shape with every change in angle. It was meant to be the pulsating heart of Cumbernauld.
dimairt wrote:Great footage here from Cumbernauld in the mid-1960s in this video from the University of East Anglia. Cumbernauld is featured from 1:23 to 3:09. The rest of the film is worth a look.
Love the way he says Cumbernauld.
Durachdan,
Eddy
http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/6067
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