M74 Extension westbound: opening day 28/6/2011

Raw footage from my first turn on the M74 north-eastern extension, a few minutes after it opened (a little late) at 19:30 on Tuesday 28 June 2011. Heading eastbound from just west of the new junction at Tradeston and the Kingston Bridge as far as the Fullerton junction with the existing M74 stub. Sorry about the mobile phone interference.

The 8km motorway has cost an estimated £692,000,000, or about £90,000 per meter. It cuts through some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Glasgow, which (coincidentally) have some of the lowest levels of car ownership in the entire country.

Read my piece on the new motorway in Building Design (24 June 2011): http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/analysis/urban-motorway-divides-glasgow/502041...

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Autos & Vehicles

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• M74
• Glasgow
• motorway
• roads
• traffic
• Govanhill
• Rutherglen
• Tradeston