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The A730 road in Scotland runs between the centre of
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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
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; it is a continuation of the road flanked by
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and
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that crosses the river on the Victoria Bridge, 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
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, and merges with the A728 for a short distance as they pass the ruined Caledonia Road Church. It then turns east as Caledonia Road (the A728 continues south as Cathcart Road), running south-eastwards past
Hutchesontown Hutchesontown is an inner-city area in Glasgow, Scotland. Mostly residential, it is situated directly south of the River Clyde and forms part of the wider historic Gorbals district, which is covered by the Southside Central (ward), Southside Ce ...
(directly past two of the city's taller
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), Dixon's Blazes Industrial Estate and the
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to Oatlands, where it was once a straight route (Rutherglen Road) passing
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, 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
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which opened in 2011.


Rutherglen

After a junction at
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with the
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(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 Shawfield is an industrial/commercial area of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located to the north of the town centre. It is bordered to the east by the River Clyde, to the north by the Glasgow neighbourhood of Oat ...
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
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railway tracks, then into
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. 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
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, 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
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( 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
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railway bridge, the A730 becomes single carriageway just prior to what was previously a staggered junction with an unclassified road for Spittal,
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is a residential area on the southeaster ...
and
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, 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 Whitlawburn is a residential area in the town of Cambuslang in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located south of the town centre on high ground slightly north of the Cathkin Braes, overlooking the Greater Glasgow urban area. Location and housi ...
.


Public transport

The '267' bus service, one of the primary routes by the major operator in the region,
First Glasgow First Glasgow is the largest bus company serving the Greater Glasgow area in Scotland. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup. The company operates within the area covered by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, a public body responsible for h ...
, runs along the length of the A730 within the city, turning east on the B768 Rutherglen Main Street (within
South Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire (; ) is one of 32 unitary authorities of Scotland. It borders the south-east of the Glasgow City council area and contains some of Greater Glasgow's suburban towns, as well as many rural towns and villages. It also shares bor ...
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 Glasgow Corporation Tramways were formerly one of the largest urban tramway systems in Europe. Over 1,000 municipally owned trams served the city of Glasgow, Scotland, with over 100 route miles (160 route kilometres) by 1922. The system closed ...
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


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