IT didn’t take long for the building of a massive new hospital beside one end of the Clyde Tunnel to be shown up as being a complete folly.
Last night (October 28), during the rush hour, there was an accident which closed part of the M8 motorway between Cardonald and Hillington. This caused a far greater volume of traffic to become jammed in Shieldhall Road, Govan Road and the tunnel’s southern approaches, with the result that thousands of cars were unable to get through. Two ambulances, with blue lights flashing, struggled to get out onto the road and through the jammed traffic.
This morning (October 29), apparently, a van broke down in the tunnel and traffic trying to access it had to sit in the northern approaches for well over half an hour.
The Clyde Tunnel was built for 1960s traffic and it simply cannot cope with the volume in 2015. The Kingston and Erskine Bridges are also 40 years out of date.
I would not want to be an emergency patient depending on an ambulance to get from or to this hospital.
The tunnel is completely inadequate and a new 21st century crossing has to be built.
Gordon Cubie,
48 Burncrooks Avenue, Bearsden.
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