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Monday, May 12, 2003
Socialists to table motion opposing M74 extension THE Scottish Executive's planned £500m extension of the M74 will be placed firmly on the new parliament's agenda today when the motorway is made a key issue for the second term by the Scottish Socialists.
The SSP's Rosie Kane cut her political teeth as an environmental campaigner fighting the M77 and now her first motion in the Scottish Parliament will be in opposition to the M74 extension.
Ms Kane and her party's convener, Tommy Sheridan, will hand in their party's submission to the consultation process at Glasgow City Chambers today. Patrick Harvie, the city's Green MSP, will hand his party's response in at the same time, as the two parties make clear their joint opposition to urban motorway building.
Ms Kane will table her first motion this morning on the M74 issue. It invites the parliament to express its opposition to the motorway building project and states that the project will have "failed the people of Glasgow."
The motion also condemns the executive's lack of alternative public transport provision for the area involved.
