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Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1019467
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019467
The first urban ring-road motorway in these islands, and the initial, component of Target 1 - a ten-year plan to build a 21-km network of primary roads to divert traffic from surface streets. Its daring ambitions were inspired by American president, yet it had to fit into the closely confined space of a European city - threaded through a narrow corridor opened up by Glasgow Corporation's slum-clearance - and only half of it was built. Highlights are the grade-separated complexity of Townhead Interchange, and the juxtaposition of the sunken artery of Charing Cross Section with soaring Kingston Bridge (now facing a major repair scheme). (Fig. 4.51).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).
