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crusty_bint wrote:The swinging sixties, the time of mini-skirts, the pill, new towns, flat roofs, tower blocks and urban motorways!
Glasgows Inner Ring Road was a product of the age of "the white heat of technology" and where would we be without it?
red_kola wrote:crusty_bint wrote:The swinging sixties, the time of mini-skirts, the pill, new towns, flat roofs, tower blocks and urban motorways!
Glasgows Inner Ring Road was a product of the age of "the white heat of technology" and where would we be without it?
Fantastic stuff. I have a real fear that now the third side of the ring road is coming, it won't be long until we hear talk of the economic benefits of completing the box. A motorway through Calton and Glasgow Green would undoubtedly improve the area. Right? Spin it with a promise of huge investment and redevelopment of the area and it would be downright impolite to protest, unless you were a tree-hugging pinko queer.
This plan is, after all, only 50 years old. It's not like it looked like a bad idea even when 20 years old. What modern, contenental-style cosmopolitan city wouldn't want to be cut into pieces by a series of roads which are barely adequate for the volume of trafic which use them, even in the city with the lowest rates of car ownership in the country.
Why shouldn't all trafic from the west of Scotland be routed through the very heart of Glasgow, en route either north, east or south. People might even stop for an ice-cream on their way. Win Win Win for everyone...
Somewhere in the Glasgow Room of the Mitchell are the plans they had for Great Western Road. Now, they really were scary!
skintobalinto wrote:Crusty_Bint, Fantastic these are excellent where did you get them.
I'm sure I remember a film about the proposed changes to Glasgows transport infrastructure. The "City Fathers" had a vision of a transport utopia, looked more like something out of Metropolis. does anyone remember this?
skintobalinto wrote:They destroyed a lot of beautiful buildings for the sake of progress, when you look at the Virtual Mitchell and see what has now gone it makes you weep.
crusty_bint wrote:The latest stage of expansion is already underway and can be viewed here, its also got a fanshy virtual fly-over!!!
james73 wrote:skintobalinto wrote:Crusty_Bint, Fantastic these are excellent where did you get them.
I'm sure I remember a film about the proposed changes to Glasgows transport infrastructure. The "City Fathers" had a vision of a transport utopia, looked more like something out of Metropolis. does anyone remember this?
Yes, I do, but I dont remember where I saw it
red_kola wrote:Is it the clips "Glasgow Today and Tomorrow" from the BBC site?
crusty_bint wrote:
Glasgows existing road system was charecterised by a plethora of radial routes with multitudinous interchanges. In 1956, the average journey speed in the centre of Glasgow was an apocraphyl 8.2 mph, stopped time accounted for 1/3 of journey time, treaffic was focused on the city centre, many roads were overloaded, the use of public transport was falling, private car ownership was increasing dramatically and road safety records were worsening: something had to be done!
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