M74: Heading in the Wrong Direction
M74: Heading in the Wrong Direction is one of the most talked-about movies released in 2006, attracting audiences with its cinematic storytelling and memorable performances.
The M74 northern extension is a five-mile, six-lane elevated urban motorway in Glasgow. The road became the costliest stretch of tarmac per mile in the whole of the UK upon completion, rising to £692m on completion in 2011. This film provides an important document of the important anti-roads struggle which contested it, and of the complete betrayal of the democratic process by the Scottish Government, which rejected the advice of an independent inquiry not to proceed.
