A970 road

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Shetland, Scotland

The A970 road is an A road in Scotland. It is with a length of around 105 km around the longest street in the Shetland Islands, which connects the main island of Mainland from the extreme south to the northern tip.

Course

In the south, the road starts at the ferry dock from Sumburgh, which the ferry to the Fair Isle starts regularly. To train the airport Sumburgh herumfühernd, crosses the A970 since the airport expansion in 2006, the west end of the second track. A signal conditioning on both sides of the crossing warning of air traffic. From then on, the road in a northerly direction through the elongated southern Mainlands and binds on their way numerous small villages on. Finally, the A970 bends to the east to reach the center of the island with Lerwick. Here the road is done only through the outskirts. The city center is accessible via the a969, which branches from the A970 and opens again in this on the northern edge of Lerwick.

Beyond Lerwick the road is maintained for about 3.5 kilometers to the west. At the height of the estuary Dales Voe the road bends to the north. A well -run as A970 spur road goes at this point in a southwesterly direction to the center of some five kilometers away from Scalloway. A few kilometers north, the road leads past the Tingwall Airport, the second airport in Mainland. This is accessible via the A971 branches off. The A971 is the main thoroughfare of the Walls peninsula in the west Mainlands.

19 km north, at Hillside on Olna Firth, the street leads off to the northwest, while the A968 continues to the north and ferry services connecting the islands of Yell and Unst. About the isthmus Mavis Grind the A970 reached the Northmavine Peninsula, which it traverses in a north-south direction. Halfway branches a guided as A970 spur road down to six kilometers away, Wick Hill on Ura Firth. The A970 itself ends after a total length of about 105 km in the hamlet Isbister near the northern tip Mainlands.

Former section of the A970 near Sandwick

At the isthmus Mavis Grind