The Kingston Bridge was built across the River Clyde at Anderston in the city centre between 1967 and 1970. A key link in Scotland’s motorway system, it joins the east M8 motorway to its western counterpart. When built it was the longest pre-stressed concrete bridge in Scotland.

The Kingston Bridge is the busiest section of road in Europe, with some 170,000 cars daily using its ten lanes. Such enormous usage created some serious structural problems and £31.5m was spent over a seven-year period up to 2001 on repair work, with engineers jacking up the bridge, creating new supports, and jacking it down again.

To cope with the still growing volume of traffic and to ensure that this most vital route stays open, further crucial remedial strengthening work has been carried out during 2003.

Transport: M74

The proposed completion of the M74 from the Fullarton Junction near Carmyle in South Lanarkshire to meet the M8 just west of the Kingston Bridge will provide the five-mile missing link of motorway infrastructure in the West of Scotland. The M74 extension is expected to decrease congestion and improve access along the entire Clyde corridor and make it easier to catch flight connections to Glasgow Airport. Expected to cost between £350 and £500m, it is scheduled to open in 2008.

Transport: Clyde Tunnel

Complementing the Kingston Bridge, and also linking the north and south of the city is the Clyde Tunnel (pictured), running under the River Clyde from Govan to Whiteinch, and opened in 1963 by HM Queen Elizabeth II. Another inner-city bridge, the Clyde Arc, was completed in September 2006, linking Finnieston to Govan which provides a transport link that will greatly assist the ongoing regeneration of the Clyde Waterfront particularly the media village on the south bank."