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Encyclopedia > M80 motorway
M80 motorway
Length 6 miles
10 km
Direction South - North
Start Haggs
Primary destinations None
End Stirling
Construction dates 1974 - entire section
Motorways joined 5 -
M876 motorway
9 -
M9 motorway
M80 motorway
Length 5 miles
8 km
Direction Southeast - Northwest
Start Glasgow
Blochairn
Primary destinations None
End Stepps
Construction dates 1992 - entire section
Motorways joined
M8 motorway

The M80 motorway is a major motorway in central Scotland. The motorway is in two halves, the southern section running from Glasgow to Stepps, and the northern section from Haggs to Stirling. Image File history File links UK_motorway_M80. ... The colour scheme used to denote a primary route. ... Stirling (Sruighlea in Gaelic) is a city in central Scotland. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M876. ... The M876 motorway is a motorway in Scotland. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M9. ... The M9 motorway is a major motorway in Scotland. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M80. ... Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic) is Scotlands largest city and unitary council, situated on the River Clyde in the countrys west central lowlands. ... The colour scheme used to denote a primary route. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M8. ... The M8 at Charing Cross in Glasgow The M8 runs under Sauchiehall Street and the Bridge to nowhere Kingston Bridge, looking eastward up the River Clyde The M8 is the busiest motorway in Scotland. ... Motorway mark in Europe A motorway (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and some Commonwealth nations) is both a type of road and a classification. ... ... Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic) is Scotlands largest city and unitary council, situated on the River Clyde in the countrys west central lowlands. ... Stirling (Sruighlea in Gaelic) is a city in central Scotland. ...


Route

The road begins at M8 Junction 13 in the Glasgow suburb of Blochairn. Striking northeast, the road serves the Glasgow commuter towns of Bishopbriggs, Lenzie and Kirkintilloch. The M8 at Charing Cross in Glasgow The M8 runs under Sauchiehall Street and the Bridge to nowhere Kingston Bridge, looking eastward up the River Clyde The M8 is the busiest motorway in Scotland. ... Bishopbriggs is an affluent commuter suburb in the northern outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland. ... Lenzie is a suburb in East Dunbartonshire, approximately five miles north-east of Glasgow. ... Kirkintilloch is a Scottish burgh which lies on the line of the Roman Antonine Wall in East Dunbartonshire, about 8 miles north-east of Glasgow. ...


After just 4 miles however, the motorway swings to the right and comes to an abrupt halt at a temporary terminus at the Crowwood Roundabout, arguably Glasgow's busiest. This section of the motorway is known locally as the Stepps bypass.


A 12 mile gap in the road is present between Stepps and Haggs, where traffic must use the outdated A80 route through Cumbernauld. Only once the A80 reaches Haggs does the M80 begin again. The A80 is a trunk road in Scotland, linking Glasgow to Stirling. ... Cumbernauld is a new town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, created in 1956 as a population overflow for Glasgow. ...


The motorway continues from here, throwing off a spur (the M876 taking traffic to the Kincardine Bridge) before its junction with the Stirling-bound A91. A few hundred yards on, the motorway ends when it merges with the M9 just outside Stirling at Bannockburn. The M876 motorway is a motorway in Scotland. ... The Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge crossing the River Forth near Kincardine, Scotland. ... The M9 motorway is a major motorway in Scotland. ... Telfords circular roadbridge over the Bannock Burn Bannockburn is a village immediately south of the city of Stirling in Scotland. ...


Completion project

The Scottish Executive plan to complete the route in the near future, as a partially on-line and off-line upgrade of the A80, featuring a new junction with the M73 amongst others. While work has not explicitly begun on this route, one of the major junctions on the A80, the Auchenkilns Roundabout, was experiencing such traffic problems that it has already been grade separated anyway. The term Scottish Executive is used in two distinct but closely related senses. ... In the field of road transport, a road junction is a place where two or more roads either meet or cross. ... The M73 motorway is a motorway in Scotland. ... A roundabout, rotary, or gyratory circus is a type of road junction (or traffic calming device) at which traffic streams circularly around a central island after first yielding to the circulating traffic. ... Grade separation refers to separating two item that cross each other by placing them on different levels, or at different heights, to each other. ...


Exit list

M80 Motorway
Southbound exits Junction Northbound exits
City Centre, Greenock, Glasgow International Airport M8 M8 J13 Start of motorway
Blochairn, Carntyne 1 No exit
Bishopbriggs, Robroyston B765 2 Bishopbriggs, Robroyston B765
No exit 3 Kirkintilloch, Lenzie B757
Start of motorway Terminus Stirling A80
Glasgow (East) A80
Crowwood, Grange
Route follows A80 road.
Cumbernauld, Glasgow A80 The SOUTH, Carlisle (M73) Terminus Start of motorway
Kirkintilloch, Kilsyth A803 4 No exit
No exit 5 Kincardine Bridge, Falkirk, Stenhousemuir M876
No exit 9 Stirling A91 & Stirling services
Start of motorway M9 J9 Perth M9
Motorway symbol Motorways of the United Kingdom
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Great Britain: M1 - M10 - M11 - M18 - M180 - M181 - M2 - M20 - M23 - M25 - M26 - M27 - M271 - M275 - M3 - M32 - M4 - M40 - M42 - M45 - M48 - M49 - M5 - M50 - M53 - M54 - M55 - M56 - M57 - M58 - M6 - M6 Toll - M60 - M61 - M62 - M65 - M66 - M67 - M69 - M602 - M606 - M621 - M73 - M74 - M77 - M8 - M80 - M876 - M898 - M9 - M90
Northern Ireland: M1 - M2 - M3 - M5 - M12 - M22
A-roads with motorway restrictions
Great Britain: A1(M) - A167(M) - A194(M) - A3(M) - A38(M) - A308(M) - A329(M) - A48(M) - A404(M) - A57(M) - A58(M) - A64(M) - A66(M) - A601(M) - A627(M) - A6144(M) - A74(M) - A823(M)
Northern Ireland: A8(M)
List of motorways in the United Kingdom


 

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