In all 48 miles of motorway and 8 miles of all purpose roads were recommended. This was - let's not forget - a short time after the Beeching Report recommended the closure of most of Britain's rail network.Of course, the public transport ideas were no more realised than the road plans. Cancelled in 1980 by Strathclyde Regional Council. It was intended that the plan would be implemented in three "targets"up to 1990 or 2000. The Bruce Report, a wide-ranging investigation into the post-war regeneration of the city, proposed (in addition to other road plans and a redistribution of rail termini) a system of motorways into and around central Glasgow. This coupled with space contraints and a need for regular junctions ensured a significantly different approach to traffic planning would be required. Townhead interchange was completed in the mid-1980s. The line of this route was revised a number of times during the 1970s to mitigate environmental impact on Glasgow Green but was eventually cancelled by Strathclyde Regional Council in 1980. It connects the country's two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and serves other large communities including Airdrie, Coatbridge, Greenock, Livingston and Paisley.The motorway is 60 miles (97 km) long. If successfully implemented this plan together with the M74 extension would effectively see Bruce's planned inner ring completed. Are they truly temporary?The lowly and pathetic A6144(M) motorway was downgraded in May 2006. "A Highway Plan for Glasgow" was published in 1965 by Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow. It was called the Its recommendations kept Glasgow's core highway network from its predecessor but extended the motorways and expressways outwards, turning what had been spurs into full ring roads and tying together the future plans of places as disparate as Cumbernauld and Paisley.The level of detail in which the plan suggested redeveloping the city (and eventually the whole region) is neatly exposed in its smaller-scale recommendations.

SWK undertook a similar exercise making visits to both the USA and Europe. Rutherglen commissioned the same consultants to advise them on their traffic problems. Traffic weaving issues on the north flank section resulted in a need for "wrong side" access slips - a feature common in the USA. A number of other UK cities followed Glasgow's urban motorway  plans with interest and published  their own reports soon after.The Corporation laid out three requirements in the written statement of its quinquennial review. The routes were designed to cope with traffic levels predicted for 1990.The plan laid out details for on street parking meters and multi storey car parks within the city centre.Pedestrianisation of Sauchiehall, Buchanan and Argyle Streets was first considered in the plan.The CDA's sought to redevelop areas of poor quality housing through demolition and replcement with modern facilities. With traffic flows projected SWK set about selecting a final line and detailed design for the ring road. "A Highway Plan for Glasgow" was published in 1965 by Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow. The east and south flanks of the Ring Road were cancelled by Strathclyde Regional Council in 1980. The Glasgow Motorway Archive has records of traffic flows dating back to the early 1970s. Hardshoulders were minimal to reduce costs. The ring road design would require to take these into consideration so as to allow the various CDA plans to be developed. This section would have been constructed as a single section but was cancelled by Strathclyde Regional Council in 1980. There are no signs that the Bruce Plan's proposed Maryhill motorway will ever be implemented in any way. The north and south flanks were finalised fairly easily. Coming in at over 200 pages and accompanied by fold out maps, beautiful illustrations and clear diagrams, the report formed the basis of plans for routes such as the M8 and M77.We will consider this document and its importance over a number of pages. An outline design for the Ring Road was published in 1962 with the remaining plan agreed in 1963. To illustrate the growth in traffic on the M8, we have provided an example from the Inner Ring Road section. Henry Grace (a senior SWK partner) recommended the use of an American partner who SWK had previously worked with and offered to split the costs.
The road was depressed opposite Glasgow Cathedral and Royal Infirmary for aesthetic reasons. Expected to cater for majority of west to east and south traffic.
Connections to the North and East Flanks of the ring road and the Monkland Motorway. They noted that "further modifications or additions of this type may be required as other commercial centres consider their future development...".That's exactly what many of them did - Renfrew, Paisley, Motherwell, even towns as far afield as the newly developed Cumbernauld. There were 29 CDAs throughout Glasgow, though only some were taken forward and the locations of some will reveal crucial facts about the motorway corridor! These are standard practices in highway link design today.As the ring road design progressed a number of large scale models were constructed for both the testing of layouts and public display.