M9 MOTORWAY

:''The M9 motorway is also the name of roads in Russia (see Baltic Highway) and Ireland (see N9 road).''
The 'M9 motorway' is a major motorway in Scotland. It runs from the outskirts of Edinburgh, bypassing the towns of Linlithgow, Falkirk, Grangemouth and Stirling to end at Dunblane.

Contents

Route

Junction list

See also

External links

Route

The road is approximately 30 miles long, and runs in a roughly north-west direction from the M8. It meets the A8 at Newbridge - a traffic blackspot before the junction was grade separated. Its next junction is a motorway spur towards the Forth Road Bridge - however it is only half finished, dumping its traffic onto the badly overloaded A8000 road two miles short of the bridge. The spur is being extended to the A90 dual carriageway as it approaches the bridge so as to relieve congestion. Work is well underway - the roundabout junction between the M9 spur, the A8000 and the B800 has been removed and a contraflow is in place. In addition, a new junction with the A90 is being built with the A90 being widened to 3 lanes each way immediately south of the Forth Road Bridge. The project is due for completion early 2008.
The road shares space with one mile of the M876 en route to the Kincardine Bridge east of Stenhousemuir. At Stirling it meets the M80, taking over the main route through the Carse of Lecropt to the final roundabout at Dunblane. From there, the A9 runs all the way to Thurso.

Junction list

'M9 Motorway'
Northbound exits	Junction	Southbound exits
'Start of Motorway'	Terminus	'M8': 'Junction 2' Glasgow, Livingston, Edinburgh
'A8':Edinburgh 'A89':Broxburn	1	'A8':Edinburgh 'A89':Broxburn
'A90': Forth Road Bridge	1A	No Access
No Access	2	'B8046': Uphall 'A904': Forth Road Bridge
'A803': Linlithgow 'A904': Bo'ness	3	No Access
'A801': Bathgate and Livingston 'A803': Polmont	4	'A801': Bathgate and Livingston 'A803': Linlithgow 'B9080': Kirkliston
'A905': Grangemouth and Falkirk	5	'A905': Grangemouth and Bo'ness
No Access	6	'A905': Grangemouth and Falkirk
'M876': Kincardine Bridge	7	'M876': Kincardine Bridge
'M876': Glasgow	8	No Access
'A91': Stirling 'M80': Glasgow and Carlisle Stirling Services	9	'A872': Denny Stirling Services
'A84': Stirling, Callander, Crianlarich	10	'A84': Stirling via the
'A9': Perth and Bridge of Allan 'B824': Doune 'B8033': Dunblane 'End of Motorway'	11	'Start of Motorway'

See also

★ List of motorways in the United Kingdom

External links

★ CBRD Motorway Database - M9

★ City of Edinburgh Council Leaflet (PDF)

★ Forth Estuary Transport Authority Project Page

★ The Motorway Archive - M9