M74 Extension goes ahead

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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby mr moto » Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:11 pm

Any chance we could get back to the title of this thread please ? :D
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:41 pm

hazy wrote:Evidence is in the media dex. Fact is its true.
I could also name a west of Scotland MP who gladly took bungs from a Monaco based buisness man.
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So you made it up. A few innuendos, the usual tripe sprinkled with bluster.

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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby cumbo » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:49 pm

The guy who started this thread no longer posts here its a shame.
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby HollowHorn » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:43 pm

Aye.
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby sonnyj99 » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:42 pm

sorry for being a spaz but have been looking at the proposed m74 route and am not sure of a couple of things. maybe someone can enlighten me.

travelling from the west on the m8 you can go either onto the m74 to head south or stay on the m8 heading east or north - thats good.

travelling from the east on the m8/kingston bridge you can keep on the m8 going west, but will you be able to go straight onto the m74 to head south, without having to come off the motorway and back on again i mean?

also when on the new m74 you can go straight onto the m8 heading west no bother, but can you head striaght onto the m8 heading east without coming off and then on again?

any info would be great, cheers
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby mr moto » Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:17 pm

Look here ..http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=477493&page=9
From the first image it looks like you can just continue onto the M74 heading east from the southside 'thus avoiding going over the kingston bridge altogether , :D and obviously you can come up the M74 heading for the southside without having to use the kingston bridge.
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby crusty_bint » Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:08 pm

sonnyj99 wrote:travelling from the west on the m8 you can go either onto the m74 to head south or stay on the m8 heading east or north - thats good.

Correct.

sonnyj99 wrote:travelling from the east on the m8/kingston bridge you can keep on the m8 going west, but will you be able to go straight onto the m74 to head south, without having to come off the motorway and back on again i mean?

No.

sonnyj99 wrote:also when on the new m74 you can go straight onto the m8 heading west no bother, but can you head striaght onto the m8 heading east without coming off and then on again?

No.

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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby Lucky Poet » Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:46 pm

At least five hundred thousand million pounds? Sheesh. (And it looks like such an adornment for the city.) I hope it works, at least.
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby Dave » Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:12 pm

I understand the 'ski-jumps' are for keeps, that'll keep the tourist happy what with the photoing gless boxes and other such interests.

I think the Kingston bridge could be done away with, why in the dear green place do we need 100foot* of clearance inatween a series of surface skimming bridges, Is there a river tour available yet?

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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby MungoDundas » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:07 am

Ideally the M74 extension will benefit all. I'd imagine it'll shave 15minutes of jam off everyone.

God willing, it'll, just for example, get the Stonehouse-Paisley crowd out of my Queenslie – Finnieston trundle. Ought''ve been down when I was at school, just like the Monkland's Motorway was.

Separately, about no low level bridges twinging the radar kit of tourist boats.....
Stand to be corrected by a boat-specialist, but I though that the “River Clyde Cruise to Braehead” boat had been sold to Loch Tay, partially on account of their own tour boat still being mired in some form of litigation with the Ferguson yard at Port Glasgow?
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby Dave » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:03 pm

Ironically the Ferguson Yard in Port Glasgow is owned by the same people who owns Holland House Electrical. I worked there in the early 90's and the word in the steamie back then was that the only reason they held onto the head office in Scotland Street was because the were holding out for mega bucks for the new motorway development. I appears on the face of it that the developers decided rerouting the motorway a few feet to avoid the demolition of this iconic building was a cheaper option.

Now if that was true I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall when that bombshell was dropped, I met the guy who was the then accountant a few years back and he told of fireworks when the government introduced NMW (the base pay was £10 a week above jobseekers allowance) so I can only imagine the misery losing out on a few quid for being too stubborn.
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby scottwramsay » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:43 pm

Just in case people haven't already seen it:


http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/...74-LOW-RES.avi
http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/files/video/m74/M74-LOW-RES.avi

(Hint: It starts at the bottom of the Kingston Bridge.)rl
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby mrsam » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:12 pm

scottwramsay wrote:Just in case people haven't already seen it:


http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/...74-LOW-RES.avi

(Hint: It starts at the bottom of the Kingston Bridge.)


Sorry just getting a page not found thing so dead link :(

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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby scottwramsay » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:15 pm

mrsam wrote:Sorry just getting a page not found thing so dead link :(

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Haha sorry, that's my copy-paste bad. Here's the right one:

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/fil ... OW-RES.avi
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Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

Postby mrsam » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:29 am

scottwramsay wrote:
mrsam wrote:Sorry just getting a page not found thing so dead link :(

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Haha sorry, that's my copy-paste bad. Here's the right one:

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/fil ... OW-RES.avi


cool thanks for that it's intersting (What hidden treasure is at the junction that they convieniently forgot to zoom in on?)

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