In the lead-up to hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow and the SPT came over all excited and proposed this spectacular “East End” expansion to the Glasgow Subway, potentially throwing away over 100 years of circumrevolutionary transit perfection. 

As we now know, none of this ever came to fruition, saving everyone from having to call the expanded system “The Pair of Specs” (or something equally lame) instead of the current awesome “Clockwork Orange” sobriquet.

The map itself is nothing to write home about; a bare-bones future planning map that gets the idea across with a minimum of fuss and fanfare. It’s still very interesting because I hadn’t seen this map before, nor did I know that there was ever any thought to expanding this venerable system (the third oldest underground metro in the world after London and Budapest).

I do wonder about the service pattern for this proposed system, though: two separate circles, or a figure-eight?

Source: CityMetric article about the failed expansion