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"Council response supports demolition of M8 stretch through city centre",
"Street View · Google Maps",
"The forgotten Edinburgh motorway plan that would have destroyed the Old Town"
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"textContent": "sronti:\n\n> sztupy:\n>\n>> ayeforscotland:\n>>\n>>> Council response supports demolition of M8 stretch through city centre\n>>>\n>>> Holy shit yes, please right this historic wrong.\n>>\n>> FINALLY!\n>>\n>> The entire section from there up until the M74 should go though.\n>\n> Jesus fucking Christ this is an abomination.\n\nEdinburgh was fortunately saved from this future, there was supposed to be a highway going through the Holyrood Park.\n\nThe on-ramp is still there, a weird 4 lane road in the middle of a residential neighborhood:\n\nStreet View · Google Maps\n\nThank god this wasn’t built eventually (instead the A720 City Bypass was done in the outskirts), a highway through Central Edinburgh and Holyrood Park would have been a massive montrosity\n\nThe forgotten Edinburgh motorway plan that would have destroyed the Old Town",
"title": "Edinburgh was fortunately saved from this future, there was supposed to be a highway going through…"
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