Replace The M8
@ReplacetheM8
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Campaign to remove the motorway from Glasgow city centre and replace it with something better. @replacethem8.bsky.social https://t.co/lqYqW0Jtjv
Glasgow
Joined August 2021
@joe_yer99 The possibilities as well... Get rid of that expressway and make it a proper urban avenue, rejig the rail lines a wee bit and you could have a station at Yorkhill (yellow) and regrade the Queen St tunnel low enough to sink the North St M8 section while we're at it. What a waste
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Looking for people to run or collaborate on the Replace the M8 Instagram account. Drop me a message if you'd like to get involved. https://t.co/okxwyXOhK6
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Glasgow cycling revolution making the news around the world. When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America | Momentum Mag
momentummag.com
Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.
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Painting it, putting art and shops under it, trying to learn to live with it, even like it... works for a time but can it work forever? https://t.co/jWHSBJW7cX
metro.co.uk
Inside the 'flyunder' plan.
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So can Glasgow.
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Interesting 🧵here!
@Fuzzy19362853 @ReplacetheM8 Reading this piece It seems that some serious omissions in pre-works survey & data research was an element, & perhaps my images of the crumbling structures going back over 10 years highlight a further failing in monitoring & action on pavement & structure conditions >>
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What is that black greasy dust that coats windows across the city? Is there more of it close to roads and motorways? Do people have it in the countryside? Does it coat the windows of schools next to busy roads? Is some of it this toxic tyre dust?
For decades, nobody knew why coho salmon in Seattle’s streams would swim upstream strong and healthy, then spiral, twitch and suffocate within hours of rain. Whole runs gone overnight. In 2020, researchers solved the mystery, a tyre additive called 6PPD. It reacts with ozone in
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The M8 is an anachronism from the car obsessed 60s. But Transport Scotland could prove themselves as not being stuck in the past by planning the best urban artery in Europe - a beautiful green street, for all modes of transport that would boost Glasgow's livability score.
@ReplacetheM8 Sadly most of the inmates of Holyrood prefer to piss our money down the drain on roads, rather than investing it in a sustainable transport system.
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The central M8 will continue costing a fortune in taxpayer money even when this section is finished. We could be spending the money building an asset for the future instead of propping up a crumbling money pit.
Can we please @ReplacetheM8 Amey’s Glasgow M8 motorway repair hampered by ‘inaccurate records’ | Construction News
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UK Design Capital of the Year: How Glasgow is setting new standards for sensitive regeneration | Features | Building Design
bdonline.co.uk
The city is one of four shortlisted for Building Design's new award recognising the best places in Britain for architecture and urbanism. The Design Capital of the Year Award looks beyond individual...
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@peakay81 @PastGlasgow Absolutely. Butchered for a motorway.
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A bird's eye view of Glasgow city centre, captured in 1963. The sweeping arch of Queen St station is clearly visible, and the old Townhead is still recognisable, although not for much longer. What changes can you spot? 📷 Glasgow World #Glasgow
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This is how some other cities are dealing with the same challenge. Glasgow features! Which approach from the book do you want Glasgow to follow? ££ Removal and replacement ? £ Working with the structure ? ££££ tunnel replacement ?
@EdwardHarkins Here it is. Expressway World by Richard J Williams. Glasgow is one of the case studies. https://t.co/IBy1ykA6Vb
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Should we embrace the M8 and ask @glasgowcc to sort out the muddle of roads, broken surfaces and underpasses beneath it?
Were they right when they said "this scar will never heal"?
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Were they right when they said "this scar will never heal"?
A different angle on the mess created when the M8 was driven through Cowcaddens, #Glasgow, in the late '60s and early '70s. I've marked Stow College as a point of reference. Pic from Glasgow Motorway Archive.
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Th first 5 years of fighting to sort out the mess that is the central M8 in Glasgow. What should we do over the next 5 years?
@ReplacetheM8 @theglasgowbell @NewLeftReview @newglasgowsoc And nice to see Andrew Hoolachan and @peakay81's work get published in an academic journal: https://t.co/mEQAMcqiAp
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@ReplacetheM8 @theglasgowbell @NewLeftReview @newglasgowsoc And nice to see Andrew Hoolachan and @peakay81's work get published in an academic journal: https://t.co/mEQAMcqiAp
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"Almost all resources and funding are oriented towards the car: the privatised bus system is a joke, the Subway hasn't been extended since the 1890s" Owen Hatherley reviews The Expressway World. https://t.co/b5Ka3JA5JY
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"the research showed the best strategy was to keep as many trees alive as possible to allow their offspring to evolve. Felling and destroying infected trees would mean important genetic variability was lost." https://t.co/dgEhENspT8
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Subtle DNA changes in trees demonstrate Charles Darwin’s natural selection – although human help may be needed
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Japanese people run tiny shops like this because they're allowed to. We could also be allowed to, and that's what "urbanism" is all about. https://t.co/UA682kt7LX
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