M90 motorway

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Scotland

The M90 motorway (English for, M90 motorway ') in Scotland is situated between Edinburgh and Perth and is the northernmost British motorway. The part of Inverkeithing up behind Milnathort was opened to traffic in the years 1964-1972, the ongoing construction to Perth lasted until 1980.

Seamlessly subsequent to the coming of Edinburgh highway A90, the M90 starts in Inverkeithing on the north end of the Forth Road Bridge and leads to Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath and Kinross over to Perth, where she splits into two branches just before the end. The Nordwestast is part of the ring road of Perth and connects to the coming of Stirling and leading to the north highway A9. The Nordostast leads smoothly into the A90 ( former names M85 and A85 ) towards Dundee and Aberdeen on.

The M90 is considered as one of the unterdurchschnittlichsten motorways in the United Kingdom with respect to expansion of state. There is only a little more than 100 m long common Auf-/Ausfahrtbereich for both connection points between junctions 1 and 2. On a 13 -kilometer piece missing emergency lane, there are only lay-bys every 1 /4 mile (400 meters) available. Between Milnathort and Bridge of Earn, the sharpest curve is on a British motorway, the motorway as the foothills of the Ochil Hills mastered, with a radius of 694.5 m ( at the time of construction was a minimum radius of 914 m of the standard). In the same area is also the steepest section of the UK motorway network, with nearly 6% on some exits.

In the context of the new building of the new road bridge over the Firth of Forth (official name: Queensferry Crossing, Forth Replacement Crossing earlier ), the highway extended southward to build west of Edinburgh on the M9 motorway can. Here, the existing access road to the new M9 is partly devoted to M90. Following the expected completion in 2016, the M90 is thus for the first time directly connected to the rest of British motorways.