{"id":358811,"date":"2025-08-20T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358811\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:06:13","slug":"drivers-warned-as-busy-glasgow-road-shut-down-after-manhole-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358811\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers warned as busy Glasgow road shut down after manhole collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRIVERS are being warned a busy Glasgow road has been shut down after a manhole collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>The Clydeside Expressway was\u00a0closed to eastbound <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/topic\/traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traffic<\/a> before the Riverside Museum on slip around 9pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Empty Glasgow road with traffic cones and closed-off lanes.\" height=\"688\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Andrew Barr\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/traffic-glasgow-morning-road-closures-689161172.jpg\" data-caption=\"The Clydeside Expressway was\u00a0closed to eastbound traffic around 9pm\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/traffic-glasgow-morning-road-closures-689161172.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>The Clydeside Expressway was\u00a0closed to eastbound traffic around 9pmCredit: Andrew Barr<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are urged to avoid the area and find alternative routes, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/west-central\/clydeside-expressway-closed-near-riverside-museum-after-manhole-collapses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STV News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/where\/glasgow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow<\/a> City Council said:\u00a0&#8220;A814 Clydeside Expressway Eastbound Riverside Museum On-slip is currently closed to traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A814 Clydeside Expressway Eastbound is also reduced to one lane for a distance of 30 metres from the Riverside Museum On-slip due to a collapsed manhole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15222341\/rangers-vs-club-brugge-live-score-team-news-latest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take on Club Brugge<\/a> at tonight&#8217;s UEFA Champions League play-off match at Ibrox.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic Scotland said earlier there were delays of 22 minutes in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Congestion was later cleared around 7:20pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRIVERS are being warned a busy Glasgow road has been shut down after a manhole collapsed. The Clydeside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,5119,1015,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-358811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","13":"tag-travel-delays-strikes-and-disruption","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115059831296807249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}