Hundreds of millions of pounds was wasted on the M74 completion through Glasgow according to Patrick Harvie.

In an interview with the Evening Times Green candidate for Glasgow Mr Harvie said the cash should have been spend on other public transport projects.

He branded the city’s public transport expensive and the roads inadequate.

The M74 final cost was £692m for “five miles of motorway on stilts” was a missed opportunity according to Mr Harvie.

He said: “The public transport we’ve got is unreliable and expensive. Even compared to Edinburgh it’s expensive. The condition of our roads is poor yet huge amounts of money goes into building new roads rather than maintaining and improving the ones that we’ve got.

“For the M74 price tag you could have had the Glasgow Airport Rail link, Crossrail, the subway modernisation and a new fleet of publicly owned buses to run a regulated bus service.

“And you’d still have had change for the walking and cycling infrastructure.

“In short you could have transformed the whole city’s transport infrastructure. Instead what we have got is five miles of urban motorway on concrete stilts.”

The full interview is in today’s Evening Times.