ANOTHER delay to the completion of the M74's missing link in Glasgow was
expected to be announced today by Finance Secretary John Swinney.
He was due to deliver the SNP's first Scottish Parliament budget and the
proposed motorway section was certain to be a casualty, with the blame
being put on a tighter spending round.
After persistent legal challenges from green groups, work on the stretch of
road was supposed to have started last year with a completion date of
September 2010.
That was delayed further by the courts and, after today's news, it's now
expected the date for completion will be in 2012 or even later.
The tendering process closed last Friday and, going by the previous
timetable, 2012 would be the earliest the road would be finished.
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The £500million link from Fullarton Road in the city's East End to the M8
west of the Kingston Bridge is expected to create thousands of jobs and
regenerate some of Glasgow's poorest areas.
How does ploughing a road through a run-down area improve it?
James H _________________ The blinding obvious is what you showed to me.....
The only way I can think of it helping is that businesses like to be as close as possible to the motorway network and business parks will spring up at every junction so bringing jobs to the area.
In reality the businesses will be tempted by reduced rents to the new developments and move from their existing premises elsewhere and no new jobs will be created. _________________ Gies a gonk ya dobber!!
You just have to look at the transformation that has taken place in Pollok following the opening of the M77.
Sainsbury's were first to locate to the area. B&Q then moved closer to the motorway and built a larger facility. Silverburn which was originally intended to be a revamp of the old centre together with some new build at a total cost of £50 million became a £500 million transformation of the whole site.
Many new houses have been built within the area.
The location of the motorway was one of the main reasons why Glasgow Museum's Resource Centre was built in Nitshill and with phase 2 now almost complete there is talk of phase 3 being planned.
All this on the back of a motorway through a deprived community has went a long way to regenerating Pollok. _________________ I had a dream today
All this on the back of a motorway through a deprived community has went a long way to regenerating Pollok.
Very true Alex, I was living there when it was all starting, a huge transformation all over Pollok, including South Nitshill, Nitshill, Darnley, Preisthill...And the more new housing and shopping centres are built, the more work will be put into cleaning up the surrounding environment.
Areas will soon be unrecognisable as what they once were...an area once so full of Council Housing now seething with privately owned houses......not really sure how I feel about that.
All this on the back of a motorway through a deprived community has went a long way to regenerating Pollok.
Very true Alex, I was living there when it was all starting, a huge transformation all over Pollok, including South Nitshill, Nitshill, Darnley, Preisthill...And the more new housing and shopping centres are built, the more work will be put into cleaning up the surrounding environment.
Areas will soon be unrecognisable as what they once were...an area once so full of Council Housing now seething with privately owned houses......not really sure how I feel about that.
Try buying a house in Pollok now for less than £100,000 _________________ I was in a Tunnel on another forum and I came out here. fcuk, who shut the door !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53271524@N00/
There are plenty of houses under £100,000 Scary. You just have to know were to look.
Not only has there been an increase in the number of private houses the old rented houses are being modernised. There is still lots of areas that need more investment but I think there is now pressure to have this done more that at anytime in the past.
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