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    M8 motorway (Scotland) - Wikipedia
    Length60.3 mi (97.0 km)
    Existed1965–present
    HistoryOpened: 1965 · Completed: 2017
    East endSighthill
    History

    With the advent of motorway-building in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s, the M8 was planned as one of a core of new motorways, designed to replace the A8 road as a high-capacity alternative for intercity travel. The … See more

    Route

    From the Edinburgh City Bypass, the road runs west to junction with the M9 motorway (for the Forth Road Bridge), bypassing to the north of Livingston and south of Bathgate. It continues across Scotland's Central Belt. The next s… See more

    Criticism

    The central Glasgow section of the M8 is unusual amongst UK motorways (and more similar to many US Interstates) in that it directly bisects an urban city centre, whereas most other motorways bypass such centre… See more

    Problems solved

    Successive failed attempts were made to build the southern flank of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road envisaged by the Bruce Report of the late 1940s. The eastern section had been planned to run north/sout… See more

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