Campaign to remove the motorway from Glasgow city centre and replace it with something better. https://xitter.cf/t.co/LmQTwwE6fc
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Next consultation event:
Wednesday 4 March 2026, 10am to 5pm
Woodside Halls, 36 Glenfarg Street, Glasgow, G20 7QE
Pls support option 3 and suggest removal of motorway and replacement with an multi-modal transport corridor for local traffic and restoration of lost urban grid
Today, ask Transport Scotland to test a long term option for the central M8 that turns the route into an attractive urban street and opens up the land taken up by the motorway to housing, parks and development
transport.gov.scot/news/publ…
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@Glasgow_Times @GlasgowCC Do get in touch (DM open)
over 10 years of recording deterioration of structures on M8 through Glasgow to share
Including #PinkstonBurn running directly under viaduct
Buried since 1850
Floods @GlasgowSubway(under M8)since 1896
Subsidence #PhoenixRoad >>
New York style solution proposed for plan to demolish M8 viaducts glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2611…
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Council response backs demolishing M8 bridges through city.
“We consider the option to ‘remove’ the M8 Woodside Viaduct could be consistent with the council’s position and as such the council is ready to work constructively with Transport Scotland"
glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2610…
Council backs option 3 "remove"!
This is the option that could repair the city and heal the scar. Now we need the best professionals to work with the City and, most importantly, the people of Glasgow who will use the route, to get it right.
glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2610…
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Last chance to respond to @TranScotland's consultation on the future of the M8 Woodside Viaducts! 🛣️
Rather than waste £500m rebuilding this motorway, we could remove it & invest in sustainable transport connections instead 🚶🚴🌳 🚍
Find out more: RemovetheM8.org.uk
Have you responded to @TranScotland's consultation yet? 🛣️
We have a one-in-a-generation opportunity to Remove the M8 Woodside Viaducts & invest £500m in sustainable transport connections instead 🚶🚴🚌🚎🚃
Find out more at: RemovetheM8.org.uk
Deadline: Weds 25 March 2026
ALT M8 Woodside Viaducts consultation
Do you want Transport Scotland to test a scenario where a motorway no longer slices through Glasgow city centre? Ask them to test APPROACH 3 and add a working boulevard/repaired street grid/other creative replacement movement network.
Today is the last day of the consultation.
removethem8.org.uk/
Anyone interested in the future of Glasgow, the M8 and Woodside viaduct, please visit our new website! Ask Transport Scotland to remove...to improve!
Just realised option 2 is remove + rebuild. And option 3 is remove + nothing.
Let's make option 3 remove + improve
The city centre stretch of the M8 takes up 360,000m2. That's roughly 50 city centre blocks of space, or equivalent to the city centre of Inverness.
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🛣️ @TranScotland is asking for your views on the future of the M8 Woodside Viaducts
Rather than waste £500m rebuilding this motorway, we could remove it & invest in sustainable transport connections instead 🚶🚴🌳
Find out more: RemovetheM8.org.uk
Deadline: Weds 25 March
ALT M8 Woodside Viaducts consultation
We simply want Transport Scotland to thoroughly test the remove viaduct option PLUS model a C21st best practice corridor . It's the cheapest, it could open up development land, reconnect communities. Let's see if it works like it does elsewhere.
removethem8.org.uk/
Anyone interested in the future of Glasgow, the M8 and Woodside viaduct, please visit our new website! Ask Transport Scotland to remove...to improve!
Now is Our Time to Remove the Woodside Viaduct
open.substack.com/pub/paulsh…
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'International evidence overwhelmingly undercuts this idea that removing the M8 through Glasgow would cause some sort of doomsday carmageddon' 👇
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International evidence overwhelmingly undercuts this idea that removing the M8 through Glasgow would cause some sort of doomsday carmageddon. This week's column @heraldscotland
heraldscotland.com/opinion/2… @PaulJSweeney @ReplacetheM8
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Demolition of a busy stretch of the M8 motorway through Glasgow is being considered as an option for a longstanding engineering problem 🛣️ thenational.scot/news/258889…
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M8 Woodside viaduct could be replaced or removed altogether after five years of 'temporary works'
glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasg…
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Actually, numerous cities around the world are replacing 1960s style motorways with different kinds of corridors. We could have a non-motorway boulevard on the ground with normal urban junctions. It would take upess space allowing for development plots. There are many options.
Attractive livable cities are the engines of the global economy in the 21st Century. Removal of the 1960s, ugly motorway and replacement with an attractive high capacity multi-modal transport corridor, on a smaller footprint surrounded with development parcels will boost econ.
