M9 motorway
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| M9 Motorway | |
 Road of the United Kingdom |
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| Length | 33 miles (53.1 km) |
| Direction | Southeast - Northwest |
| Start | Newbridge |
| Primary destinations | Forth Road Bridge Kincardine Bridge Stirling |
| End | Dunblane |
| Construction dates | 1968 - 1980 |
| Motorways joined |  M8 motorway 7 -  M876 motorway 8 - M876 motorway 9 -  M80 motorway |
- The M9 motorway is also the name of roads in Russia (see Baltic Highway), Pakistan (see M9 motorway) and Ireland (see N9 road).
The M9 motorway is a major motorway in Scotland. It runs from the outskirts of Edinburgh, bypassing the towns of Linlithgow, Falkirk, Grangemouth and Stirling to end at Dunblane.
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[edit] Route
The road is approximately 30 miles long, and runs in a roughly north-west direction from the M8. It meets the A8 at Newbridge - a traffic blackspot before the junction was grade separated. Its next junction is a motorway spur towards the Forth Road Bridge. This spur has recently been extended, and since September 2007 now meets the A90 at Scotstoun, instead of ending at the single carriageway A8000 road two miles short of the bridge.
The road shares space with one mile of the M876 en route to the Kincardine Bridge east of Stenhousemuir, at this point the motorway has 3 lanes in each direction, making it the most northerly stretch of Motorway in the UK to be 3 lanes wide. At Stirling it meets the M80, taking over the main route through the Carse of Lecropt to the final roundabout at Dunblane. From there, the A9 runs all the way to Thurso. Moto services are located at the M9/M80 junction, accessed via a roundabout which allows access to all routes.
[edit] Junction list
| M9 Motorway | ||
| Northbound exits | Junction | Southbound exits |
| Start of Motorway | Terminus | M8: Junction 2 Glasgow, Livingston, Edinburgh |
| A8:Edinburgh A89:Broxburn Uphall |
1 | A8:Edinburgh A89:Broxburn Uphall |
| A90: Forth Road Bridge | 1A | No Access |
| No AccessKincardine Bridge (take junction for traffic on froth road bridge) | 2 | B8046: Uphall A904: Forth Road Bridge and Kincardine Bridge (take junction for traffic on forth road bridge M9) |
| A803: Linlithgow A904: Bo'ness |
3 | No Access |
| A801: Bathgate and Livingston A803: Polmont |
4 | A801: Bathgate and Livingston A803: Linlithgow B9080: Kirkliston |
| A905: Grangemouth and Falkirk | 5 | A905: Grangemouth and Bo'ness |
| No Access | 6 | A905: Grangemouth and Falkirk |
| M876: Kincardine Bridge | 7 | M876: Kincardine Bridge |
| M876: Glasgow | 8 | No Access |
| A91: Stirling M80: Glasgow and Carlisle Stirling Services |
9 | A872: Denny Stirling Services |
| A84: Stirling, Callander, Crianlarich | 10 | A84: Stirling via the |
| A9: Perth, Lecropt and Bridge of Allan B824: Doune B8033: Dunblane End of Motorway |
11 | Start of Motorway |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- CBRD Motorway Database - M9
- City of Edinburgh Council Leaflet (PDF)
- Forth Estuary Transport Authority Project Page
- The Motorway Archive - M9
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