M80 motorway

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The M80 motorway (English for, M80 motorway ') is a major motorway in central Scotland, which serves as the main road from Glasgow forth in the county of Fife, Perth and further into the Scottish Highlands. It is 40 kilometers (25 miles) long and connects Glasgow and Stirling over the city Cumbernauld. It was built in three stages separated in time remote: 12 km at Haggs in 1974 at the north end, 8 km at Stepps 1992 at the south end and the 20 -km-long gap in the year 2011.

History

The first route at Haggs and Stirling was completed in May 1974, along with the last phase of the leading Edinburgh M9 motorway. In June 1992, the second track came in Stepps, which serves as a bypass for Glasgow suburbs.

According to this construction the 20 km long hiatus in and Cumbernauld. There indeed was the four-lane main road A80, but it was not designed with its traffic lights and roundabouts for the highway traffic. One of the main junctions of the A80, the roundabout " Auchenklins ", had such heavy traffic problems in that his 2005 Plan of freedom was made in November. But for many years was delayed by disputes over the Endtrasse closing the gap. Here, there were two options: the former main road to the motorway to expand, with new route to build Stepps - Mollinsburn or a new highway in the so-called " Kelvin Valley Route". Despite resistance, the expansion option was chosen, not least because of the destruction of a part of the Roman Antonine Wall in the new option. Preparatory work for the £ 320 million costly expansion began in November 2008 and fully opened to traffic in September 2011 after nearly three years. Since then, the M80 motorway is completed in full.

Description of the line

The road starts at the junction 13 of the M8 motorway in Blockairn, a suburb of Glasgow. In northeast the road serves the towns of Bishopbriggs, Lenzie and Kirkintilloch, from which many commuters who want to Glasgow. A few miles to Glasgow leads one of the leading South Motorway M73 and shortly thereafter, the route passes through the town of Cumbernauld plan. Prior to the junction with the A91 leading to Stirling the M876 branches to, forwards the traffic to the Kincardine Bridge (city Kincardine ). A few hundred yards further, the highway ends when it joins the M9 just before Stirling at Bannockburn.