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M73

Maryville to Mollinsburn

The M73 distributes traffic between three of Glasgow’s most important approaches, and provides a key link in the north-south drive through Scotland’s central belt, but its main purpose is to help people avoid Glasgow.

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M73

Glasgow

Even in the 1960s heyday of roadbuilding, some people said you could never build your way out of congestion. Glasgow had plans to prove them wrong.

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M8 M73 M74 M80 M898

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