this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
59 points (100.0% liked)

Fuck Cars

15409 readers
647 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
toaster@slrpnk.net
grue@lemmy.world
Toaster1@lemmy.world
59
Remove the M8 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland. Last day to have your say (removethem8.org.uk)
submitted 1 week ago by pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

This consultation is on the future of the Woodside Viaduct, a crumbling 1960s elevated motorway that cuts off North and North West Glasgow from the city centre. Temporary propping works that were meant to take 2 years and cost £35m will now take at least 6 years and £150m.

Transport Scotland now want our opinion on three options: Repair the viaduct for up to £200m extra, replace it for up to £500m extra, or remove it for under £125m.

For comparison Strathclyde Partnership for Transport say it would cost an initial £300m to create a world-class bus service as good as any in Europe for the entire region.

Transport Scotland's consultation document claims that removing the motorway causes the most pollution, even though the exact opposite happened when other cities removed urban motorways.

top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What about fixing it but using it for public transport, cycling and recreation, similar to the skyway in New York city?

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because its crumbling. It either needs replacement or to be gone. It sounds like they were gonna patch it up for £35M but that's no longer considered viable.

Also an eyesore.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ah yeah I thought the need for fixing up might be lower when it doesn't need to carry speeding trucks anymore but good point.

They really did do a nice job in NYC though. Though it's not called the skyway but the high line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line

That was also an eyesore but they really made it cool.

Of course NYC is probably the richest city in the world so it's a lot easier to do something like that.