M9 motorway (Scotland)

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The M9 motorway (English for, M9 motorway ') is a major motorway in Scotland. It runs from Edinburgh's outskirts after Dunblane. It is tangent to the places Linlithgow, Falkirk, Grangemouth and Stirling.

Description of the line

The road is approximately 33 miles or 53 kilometers long and branches in Ratho in Edinburgh from the M8 in the north-west direction. After the junction of the A8 at Newbridge the feeder road follows the Forth Road Bridge. This was only half completed before 2008 and two miles before the bridge was the traffic on the congested A8000 over. The extension of the feeder to the adjacent to the highway A90 bridge was completed in 2008.

For a mile up the M876 runs on the Kincardine Bridge on the same route. Shortly before Stirling opens a the M80. At the roundabout near Dunblane M9 ends, from there leads A9 further up to Thurso on the northern end of Scotland.