Argyle Street, Glasgow

It begins in the south-eastern corner of the city centre, at the Trongate, where it is pedestrianised as far as Queen Street. This section forms the major shopping section of the road, including the St. Enoch Centre and the Argyll Arcade (a Victorian arcade principally containing jewellers). Closed to most traffic, this section forms a taxi and bus corridor for services travelling to the east and south-east of the city.

After crossing the junction with Union Street / Jamaica Street, it passes underneath the expanse of railway lines at Glasgow Central Station (the so-called Hielanman's Umbrella)^[1] before becoming a major thoroughfare (A814) connecting the city centre to the M8 motorway and the Clydeside Expressway running alongside the River Clyde; however while traffic continues freely on the expressway, Argyle Street itself, which ran north-west through Anderston until the redevelopment of the area in the 1960s, now terminates as a through road after passing under the motorway at Anderston railway station, instead existing as an address in two unconnected sections.

The route then joins St. Vincent Street at Finnieston/Sandyford and is revived as a major thoroughfare as it heads out towards the West End of the city. It connects with Sauchiehall Street at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, and the road itself ends just beyond the Kelvin Hall on a bridge over the River Kelvin, where it becomes Dumbarton Road entering Partick.