This consultation is on the future of the Woodside Viaduct, a crumbling 1960s elevated motorway that cuts off North and North West Glasgow from the city centre. Temporary propping works that were meant to take 2 years and cost £35m will now take at least 6 years and £150m.
Transport Scotland now want our opinion on three options: Repair the viaduct for up to £200m extra, replace it for up to £500m extra, or remove it for under £125m.
For comparison Strathclyde Partnership for Transport say it would cost an initial £300m to create a world-class bus service as good as any in Europe for the entire region.
Transport Scotland’s consultation document claims that removing the motorway causes the most pollution, even though the exact opposite happened when other cities removed urban motorways.
What about fixing it but using it for public transport, cycling and recreation, similar to the skyway in New York city?
Because its crumbling. It either needs replacement or to be gone. It sounds like they were gonna patch it up for £35M but that’s no longer considered viable.
Also an eyesore.
Ah yeah I thought the need for fixing up might be lower when it doesn’t need to carry speeding trucks anymore but good point.
They really did do a nice job in NYC though. Though it’s not called the skyway but the high line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line
That was also an eyesore but they really made it cool.
Of course NYC is probably the richest city in the world so it’s a lot easier to do something like that.