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The A74 was the original route from Glasgow to Carlisle, where it met the A7 in Carlisle city centre and the A6 south to London. Starting in the 1930s, the single-carriageway road between Gretna and Glasgow was progressively upgraded to dual carriageway, being completed in the early 1970s with the completion of the Gretna bypass.
The eastern section had been planned to run north/south close to the High Street of Glasgow, through or under Glasgow Green to the southside of the Clyde. Public opinion was strongly against this and the eastern section was shelved, with a much later M74 connecting the far-eastern areas of Glasgow. This section, which is an extension of the M74 ...
On 16 May 1936, the road was diverted away from Telford's route to run from Glasgow to Motherwell via Uddingston — it is a portion of this realignment that forms the modern A74 route within Glasgow. [6] It became a trunk road when the act was first published in 1936. [16]
Motherwell (Scots: Mitherwall, Scottish Gaelic: Tobar na Màthar [3]) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. [4] It has a population of around 32,120.
High Street is the oldest, and one of the most historically significant, streets in Glasgow, Scotland.Originally the city's main street in medieval times, it formed a direct north–south artery between the Cathedral of St. Mungo (later Glasgow Cathedral) in the north, to Glasgow Cross and the banks of the River Clyde.
Glasgow has a well developed network of park and ride sites operated by SPT [7] or Scotrail. These exist at railway and subway stations across the greater Glasgow area. The Glasgow Subway has three park and ride sites with a total of 1,109 spaces with at least 10,000 further spaces spread out across the local rail network.
The project cost £980,000 ... Hamilton and Motherwell & Wishaw, ... The city centre is bounded by High Street at Glasgow Cross the historic centre of civic life, ...
The £330 million park is the UK’s largest speculative office park development, comprising 10 buildings, totalling 756,000 sq ft (70,200 m 2) of high-quality space. The entire park was completed in March 2010.