M9 motorway

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M9 motorway
Length	33.0 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 a road in Ireland, part of the Dublin–Waterford route, 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.

1 Route
2 Junction list
3 See also
4 External links

[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 - however it is only half finished, dumping its traffic onto the badly overloaded A8000 road two miles short of the bridge. The spur is being extended to the A90 dual carriageway as it approaches the bridge so as to relieve congestion. Work is well underway - the roundabout junction between the M9 spur, the A8000 and the B800 has been removed and a contraflow is in place. In addition, a new junction with the A90 is being built with the A90 being widened to 3 lanes each way immediately south of the Forth Road Bridge. The project is due for completion early 2008.

The road shares space with one mile of the M876 en route to the Kincardine Bridge east of Stenhousemuir. 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.

[edit] Junction list

M9 Motorway
Northbound exits	Junction	Southbound exits
Start of Motorway	Terminus	M8: Junction 2 Glasgow, Livingstone, Edinburgh
A8:Edinburgh A89:Broxburn	1	A8:Edinburgh A89:Broxburn
A90: Forth Road Bridge	1A	No Access
No Access	2	B8046: Uphall A904: Forth Road Bridge
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 and Bridge of Allan B824: Doune B8033: Dunblane End of Motorway	11	Start of Motorway

[edit] See also

List of motorways in the United Kingdom

[edit] External links

	Motorways in the United Kingdom
Great Britain: M1 • M2 • M3 • M4 • M5 • M6 • M6 Toll • M8 • M9 • M10 • M11 • M18 • M20 • M23 • M25 • M26 • M27 • M32 • M40 • M42 • M45 • M48 • M49 • M50 • M53 • M54 • M55 • M56 • M57 • M58 • M60 • M61 • M62 • M65 • M66 • M67 • M69 • M73 • M74 • M77 • M80 • M90 • M180 • M181 • M271 • M275 • M602 • M606 • M621 • M876 • M898
A1(M) • A3(M) • A38(M) • A48(M) • A57(M) • A58(M) • A64(M) • A66(M) • A74(M) • A167(M) • A194(M) • A308(M) • A329(M) • A404(M) • A601(M) • A627(M) • A823(M)

	Northern Ireland: M1 • M2 • M3 • M5 • M12 • M22 • A8(M)	edit

Past: M16 • M41 • M63 • A18(M) • A40(M) • A41(M) • A102(M) • A6144(M) Unbuilt: M12 • M13 • M15 • M31 • M64 Future: M4 Toll