Short Cuts: Motorway Cities
Richard J. Williams, 5 December 2024
At the grubby end of an afternoon earlier this year I stood with my back to the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, watching the traffic on the M8. Here the motorway cuts through the centre of the city after crossing the Clyde, carrying cars from the river’s western reaches to Edinburgh on the east coast. About 70 per cent of Scotland’s population lives along this seventy-mile axis,...
