Glasgow's unfinished ring road is a rollercoaster
Take a ride on the amazing M8 through central Glasgow and prepare for sensory overload - a UK motorway that's straight out of Los Angeles. (No, it really is - the M8's engineers copied design guidance from California.)
It's 10 November 2005, and we're taking a trip from the M80 to the M77. The motorway itself hasn't changed so much, but can you spot changes around Glasgow as we pass through? You'll also see the Plantation interchange complex south of the Clyde before the M74 Extension arrived, and many older type Glasgow-type gantry signs that have since been refurbished and replaced.
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Map extract from OS Opendata 1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster under the Open Government Licence 3.0.
With thanks to Steven Jukes for driving!
What's new
The sunlit uplands
On Saturday 31 May something historic happened. The Heads of the Valleys Road was finally complete.
Grand openings
Our much-loved Opening Booklets section has two new publications for you to explore, and we’re making some overdue changes to make them easier to find and easier to read.
Silver bullet
The Silvertown Tunnel is finally open for business. One question remains: what’s it for?
Have you seen...
Ringways
The story of an incredible plan to reshape London into a city of motorways, with the history from creation to cancellation and details on every unbuilt road.
