Glasgow East End Regeneration Route
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The Glasgow East End Regeneration Route is a proposed urban road in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Currently at the planning stage, it is intended to be open by approximately 2010-2011.
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[edit] History
The history of the route goes back to the Glasgow Inner Ring Road (IRR) project of the 1960s. Owing largely to public opposition, only the northern and western stretches of this were ever built (what is now the central section of the M8). With the resultant chronic traffic congestion on the M8, only recently has the southern flank, (the M74 Extension) was finally given the go-ahead by the Scottish Executive after much local opposition. Construction of the M74 extension to a new interchange with the M8 at Kingston is now well underway with completion expected by 2010. The construction of the EERR link will provide an 'inner circle' connecting the new section of M74 at Polmadie with the M8 at Provan.
[edit] Route
As an alternative to, (or to supplement) a motorway ring, the EERR was planned as early as 1965 by Glasgow City Council. By improving existing sections of road, and filling in the gaps between using derelict land, it would be possible to create an urban corridor linking the new section of the M74 at Polmadie to the M8 at the Provan Gas Works interchange with the M80. The Parkhead bypass, constructed in 1988 as part of the Parkhead Forge shopping development, was effectively the first section of the EERR. From Parkhead, the road would cut northward, through Hogarth Park, a former railway embankment now used as public open space. The new road would run between Haghill and Carntyne, under Edinburgh Road and continuing along the old railway line to the M8/M80 junction at Provan.
[edit] Progress
A planning application was submitted in October 2005, but the 'winning' of being Host City for the 2014 Commonwealth Games has provided the necessary impetus. The first visible signs of the project commencing, is the removal of a former railway bridge adjacent to Dalmarnock Railway station in April 2009.
