Andy Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 If you're heading up from Englandshire for the Pre-65 or SSDT and normally go Glasgow -> Erskine Bridge -> Loch Lomond -> Crianlarich then life got a little bit easier over the past year. If you normally go up to Stirling then via Callander you can ignore this! The M74 motorway has now been extended into the centre of Glasgow so you no longer need to take the M73 then the M8 (which can be hell at certain times of the day) It's dead simple and as it's just one motorway straight in, you can't possibly get lost! As you approach Glasgow you would normally come off the M74 onto the M73 for a short distance then onto the M8. Don't. Stay on the M74. Follow the M74 right to the end - watch the speed limit as it drops to 50 as you get into the centre of Glasgow. Strathclyde's finest are known to haunt it as it's a new road... At the end of the M74 you will rejoin the M8 south of the river Clyde and on the correct side of the Kingston Bridge. From there it's just straight out past the airport to the Erskine Bridge as you normally would. Simples Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andat Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Pah....its not how quick you get there its how you get there...gotta do the Doune, Callender, Lochgilpead route....its tradition!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totalshell Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 i enjoy that part of Glasgow at 2 am on a thursday morning .. damn tory govt changing things for the better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel dabster Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Tory govt in scotland when was that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesy Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Pah....its not how quick you get there its how you get there...gotta do the Doune, Callender, Lochgilpead route....its tradition!!!!! Lochgilphead! Why not pop in to Campbletown whilst you're at it! Hope you mean Lochearnhead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabby Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Pah....its not how quick you get there its how you get there...gotta do the Doune, Callender, Lochgilpead route....its tradition!!!!! If yer down that way have a wee nosey in the woods for Suzanne Pilley while yer there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andat Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Lochgilphead! Why not pop in to Campbletown whilst you're at it! Hope you mean Lochearnhead! Silly me...yes Lochearnhead doh!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b40rt Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 (edited) If yer down that way have a wee nosey in the woods for Suzanne Pilley while yer there But dont take your mobile phone, gets you into all sorts of trouble ! Edited April 21, 2012 by B40RT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totalshell Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Tory govt in scotland when was that? last i looked that nice mr cameron was still in charge (going on what that equally nice fat bald scottish guy with a complex says he's to balme for everything north of the border) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naichuff Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Pah....its not how quick you get there its how you get there...gotta do the Doune, Callender, Lochgilpead route....its tradition!!!!! There is a new M80 up to Stirling also off the the M73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timp Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 So which is the quickest? We have been going one way then the other and now were back to the first way!!! We have also been for a trip through the middle of Glasgow once . That definitely wasn't the quickest! We tend to go Stirling way now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishy Posted April 21, 2012 Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 You put the old way in red and the new in green, could you put the Kinell way in yellow? Well!! some bugger had to say it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted April 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2012 Kinell page was a good couple of hundred miles off that map and I didn't want to confuse folk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishy Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Hate to say it, but we also got lost at Glasgow on the way up one year, well not lost because we knew we were in Glasgow, first time I have ever hear'd tom tom say "sod it I quit" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinnied Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 You put the old way in red and the new in green, could you put the Kinell way in yellow? Well!! some bugger had to say it :hyper: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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