The A730 road in Scotland runs between the centre of
Glasgow and the south-eastern edge of the city's urban area at
Cathkin.
Route
Glasgow
The A730 starts at Gorbals Cross in the
Laurieston neighbourhood just south of the
River Clyde
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; it is a continuation of the road flanked by
Glasgow Sheriff Court and
Glasgow Central Mosque
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, designated as an 'arm' of the
A8 although marked on some maps as the A730. It heads southwards through the district as Gorbals Street, passing the
Citizens' Theatre
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, and merges with the
A728 for a short distance as they pass the ruined
Caledonia Road Church
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History
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. It then turns east as Caledonia Road (the A728 continues south as Cathcart Road), running south-eastwards past
Hutchesontown (directly past two of the city's taller
tower blocks), Dixon's Blazes Industrial Estate and the
Southern Necropolis to
Oatlands, where it was once a straight route (Rutherglen Road) passing
Richmond Park, but since the reconstruction of the neighbourhood from the 2000s is now an angular bypass (The Boulevard / Kilbride Street) which allows closer access to Junction 1A of the
M74 motorway which opened in 2011.
Rutherglen
After a junction at
Shawfield Stadium with the
Glasgow East End Regeneration Route (also known as the Clyde Gateway, a separate 21st century section of dual carriageway also designated the A728 though not directly connected to the older labeled route), the A730 then runs south out of the city as Glasgow Road into the
Shawfield industrial district,
[£2million plan to clean up Shawfield]
Daily Record, 8 February 2019 becoming a dual carriageway and going under the elevated M74 but offering no access (earlier plans for the motorway included a junction at this location), over the
West Coast Main Line railway tracks, then into
Rutherglen. Meeting the town's Main Street (B768) at a crossroads with no access to the
Burnhill neighbourhood for pedestrians, who are instead directed to an
underpass, it continues south as Mill Street, a bypass through the burgh that commenced in the 1970s and continued in the early 1990s – remnants of the older streets it replaced are still visible on either side.
[Old Rutherglen, Rhona Wilson (Stenlake Publishing, 1996) ]
A pedestrian overbridge is followed by a fairly steep incline as the road passes
Overtoun Park (
average speed cameras have been installed on this section), shortly before it meets the B762 King's Park Avenue at Rutherglen Cemetery.
After passing under the
Cathcart Circle Line railway bridge, the A730 becomes single carriageway just prior to what was previously a staggered junction with an unclassified road for
Spittal,
Croftfoot and
Castlemilk, and turned east along Blairbeth Road, a narrow residential street in some places, joining the
A749 (East Kilbride Road) just under a mile further on at a junction to the north of
Springhall. The A730 was redesignated following the opening of the Cathkin Relief Road, a section of bypass of around the same length, planned for decades but opened in 2016 amid protests from local residents to draw traffic from existing routes such as Blairbeth Road and the
Fernhill neighbourhood – a new four-way junction was also added at Spittal to ease congestion, while Blairbeth Road became a continuation of the B762 towards
Burnside. The relief road now joins a much older section of the bypass at the west side of
Cathkin, passes to the south of Springhall and terminates where it meets the A749 at a roundabout to the south of
Whitlawburn.
Public transport
The '267' bus service, one of the primary routes by the major operator in the region,
First Glasgow, runs along the length of the A730 within the city, turning east on the B768 Rutherglen Main Street (within
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it mainly follows the
A724). The less frequent '21' uses almost the entire A730 route, other than still going into Fernhill rather than using the new bypass. In the first half of the 20th century,
Glasgow Corporation Tramways also operated on part of the route, specifically the 10 which had its terminus at Rutherglen.
Tram routes, 1938 (Museum of Transport)
The Glasgow Story
References
External links
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Roads in Scotland
Transport in South Lanarkshire
Transport in Glasgow
Gorbals
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