The massive £692m motorway built straight through the middle of major UK city

Aerial view of the Kingston Bridge over the River Clyde and M8, M74 motorway (Image: Getty) A controversial motorway extension that runs through Glasgow cost a whopping £692 million to build - three times over the original estimated budget, this works out to be £138.4 million per mile. The five-mile route links the M74 at Carmyle with the M8 southwest of the Kingston Bridge into the heart of central Glasgow and opened in 2011.

Planning permission was granted in October 1995, however not everything was smooth sailing and there was a long road ahead for the route to be built. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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