A74(M) and M74 motorways
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Scotland
The Motorway M74 Motorway and A74 (M ) are two motorways in the UK. They are located between Glasgow and the English border at Gretna and form, with the M6 motorway one of the two main roads between Scotland and England. North of the junction 13 is called the M74; south of it is A74 (M). The majority of the route is expanded to six lanes, only a part of the county in Lanarkshire remains four lanes.
M74 motorway
The highway begins in the city of Glasgow on the M8 motorway south of the Kingston Bridge, which crosses the River Clyde, and leads to the east. At junction 4 it crosses the M73 Motorway, a northbound highway. After that, the highway turns southeast and runs through the county Lanarkshire, cities Hamilton and Motherwell past. It ends at junction 13 near the village of Abington and merges into the A74 (M).
The section between AS 4 and 8 was opened in 1966 and 1968 and is one of the oldest Scottish motorways. She was part of the project a continuous four-lane road between London and Glasgow, which was completed in the 1970s and is the workaround for some suburbs of Glasgow. The connection points numbering began in the south, so conversely to the present situation, numbered from 1 to 6 south of Larkhall in today's node with the M73. As further south the A74 main road was four lanes and happened mostly through sparsely populated countryside than in Glasgow, we saw no urgent reason to continue south to build a highway. It was not until 1986/1987 replaced the old highway four-lane road to Millbank ( at junction 12) and 1993 to Abington (junction 13). The connection to Glasgow's Tollcross was opened in 1994.
After the opening of the last section south of the center of Glasgow on 28 June 2011, the highway is complete and forms, with the M8 and M73 motorways a rectangular ring road around Glasgow. However, you can coming to the southwest corner of the east not to the Kingston Bridge (north) and drive reversed and the M74 starts at a motorway junction.
A74 (M) motorway
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The part of the south of Junction 13 motorway was built mostly as a conversion of the old four-lane main road A74. In Gretna it closes in the M6 motorway, which represents a connection to the capital with the London Motorway M1 at.
The conversion took place as part of the transformation of the whole road from Carlisle in England ( after the finished already in the 1970s M6 motorway ) to Glasgow motorway. In 1992 the section of Kirkpatrick Fleming Gretna until finished, it crossed this part of the Anglo- Scottish border, as well as a part in Elvanfoot. In all of 1990 there was the old main road A74 in remodeling until the last section was completed at Beattock 1999. The approximately 6 -mile section in England remained but for financial reasons, continue to the A74, thus arose the so-called " Cumberland Gap " ( Carlisle Gretna ), a gap between two six-lane highways on each side.
At the same time was also planned to rename the M74 and A74 (M) at M6 after the completion of the entire course. All the signs were made with temporary adhesive for the number A74 (M). In some cases, solved this glue and covered the number M6 on. After the establishment of the autonomous Scottish government in 1999, but these plans are uncertain, although the gap on the English side was closed in 2008, and thus English and Scottish motorway networks are connected. As a result, the number changes on a stretch of motorway from Carlisle to Glasgow twice without intervening nodes.
With the exception of one track in Glasgow, the A74 is now downgraded and dismantled and is now as B7076, B7078 or marked. Only between AS 10 and 12, the old four-lane road has been preserved.