@David8n
I'm not an engineer, but through a friend of a friend i got an invite to a civil engineering institution lecture on the design and construction of the M8 through Glasgow, given by one of the designers and attended mostly by local engineers. The presentation went ok, then came the question and answer session. The audience laid into him. It started off funny but then became embarrassing. Eventually the president of the society had to step in and said something along the lines of "you're meant to be questioning him about his engineering challenges, not criticising how shit it all is". Normally, engineers support their own. Not this day.
@robc5955
As a non Scot living in (just) Scotland and have travelled widely through its wonders, I’m astonished at how areas are either absolutely outstandingly lovely, or unmitigated plop holes with very little in between. Or is it just me….
@drmal
Shout out to the @ErskineTV minibus at 10:14. They run several care homes for ex-forces people in Scotland and regularly take the residents out in their minibuses. They looked after my Dad wonderfully in his final year.
@DubStu
I’m surprised you passed over the fact the Kingston Bridge was on the verge of collapse due to weakened supports, so they lifted the entire bridge (and kept the traffic running) whilst they built new supports under it and lowered it back down. I believe it’s still the largest bridge lift to ever taken place anywhere in the World.
@gareaap7806
10:38 it's probably for air. Because the first trains where steam and had allot of exhaust so they needed extra airflow to not suffocate in tunnels.
@GMac2776
The M8 was a bit of a disaster, it destroyed communities and tore families apart. They moved people out to new schemes like Clydebank and Easterhouse, but never thought to build any amenities like shops or a pub. The whole mess was brought to an end when they created Strathclyde Regional council and Glasgow City became a sub region. A tram system that covered the whole city was destroyed, and parks built over during this time. They pulled a lot of tenements down in anticipation of roads that were never built. Glasgow has never recovered. The M8 is like a huge scar running through the city splitting it in half.
@robinwells8879
Unlike the local M8 climate your sense of humour is dry bordering on the arid! Cracks me up every time ❤
@ADJLfanatic52
This gives you insight to what England and Scotland would’ve looked if they went the way of the U.S. Lots of inner city motorways, weird junctions, and a whole lot of ghost ramps.
@jhdore
That closing sequence was fantastic
@andrewhotston983
"A ghost slip road, that seems to go under the main carriageway and into a lake". Best line yet. Especially as it's clearly true.
@edwardalexander9486
Kudos for the amount of research and time this Scottish odyssey has taken - it's been fascinating and although others have tried to tackle the subject, you've nailed it totally. Lots to think and plan for new locations to visit here in the central belt.
@douglaswalker5436
Walkinshaw brickwork still existed into the late 60s. My father was it's manager and he would take me to the works to watch the aircraft at the airport. The control tower and buildings of Renfrew airfield were also still there into the early 70s.
@heptanesykes
That cutting between the 1841 East and West Bishopton tunnels is known as the "Eye of the Tunnel", and was the site of a fatal collision on 16 July 1859 between a goods train and a passenger train. Both tunnels were only constructed because Lord Blantyre, the owner of Erskine house, didn't want to see the railway. The "Eye" is a relic from the way the tunnels were constructed.
@sputumtube
I love the 'not quite hidden', straight-faced sarcasm in these videos.
@David-bi6lf
Like to know what the compaints were about that bridge. From the drone footage that looks like the most dutch quality cycling and walking bridge I have ever seen in the UK. Decent width, looks like good slope gradient, no on the spot 190 degree turns required, no anti cycle and anti disability barriers and pedestrians have a much shorter stair route to use if they can and it looks good if you ask me.
@stuinNorway
The ski ramps bring back memories, they were "our exit" from the M8 towards home when I was a wee nipper. The exit on the right is (as far as I know) the only only off ramp (not a motorway split) from the "fast" lane of a motorway. (Clearly on this stretch of the M8 all 3, 4 or 5 lanes as appropriate are slow lanes for most of the day) Also the Kingston Bridge is not long finished a major repair after a "minor issue" of it sinking on one side and needing jacked up and more solid foundations added underneath.
@theonlywoody2shoes
I used to regularly travel to Glasgow from England on business, and remember seeing the footbridge at J19 from my room in the Hilton hotel going nowhere; and then seeing them finish it at around the same time as the Olympic Games came to London. Thanks for the nostalgia trip now I’m retired, great video as always.
@Dunbardoddy
Brilliant! - I was an engineering student in Glasgow at The University of Strathclyde in the 1970s. I remember there was a small piece of motorway spur which I think was to connect the M8 to the M74 - somewhere south of Birkbeck Court - student flats which always had me shaking my head every time I past on my way to lectures in the John Anderson Building - There must have been huge urban motorway plans that were never realised. I also remember that the Kingston Bridge over the Clyde was slipping down southwards and had to be shored up on the south side to stop the slide.
@w00dyblack
4:40 they built 3 quarters of this footbridge in the 70's. run out of money, left it sitting there unfinished for 40 years - then built the last bit. thats hilarious
@AutoShenanigans