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M9 motorway
Length	33 miles (53.1 km)
Construction dates	1968 - 1980
Direction	Southeast - Northwest
Start	Newbridge
Motorways joined	M8 motorway 7 - M876 motorway 8 - M876 motorway 9 - M80 motorway
End	Dunblane
Primary destinations	Forth Road Bridge Kincardine Bridge Stirling

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. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M9. ... Newbridge is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M8. ... Kingston Bridge M8 running alongside the Clyde This Stub in the Tradeston area, popularly known as the ski-ramp, is the abandoned interchange for the southern flank of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road For the highway connecting Moscow to Arkhangelsk, see M8 motorway (Russia). ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M876. ... The M876 motorway is a motorway in Scotland. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M876. ... The M876 motorway is a motorway in Scotland. ... Image File history File links UK_motorway_M80. ... The M80 motorway is a major motorway in central Scotland. ... Dunblane (Gaelic: Dùn Bhlàthain) is a small town north of Stirling in the Stirling council area in Scotland. ... The colour scheme used to denote a primary route. ... The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland. ... The Kincardine Bridge on the River Forth. ... Broad Street at the heart of Stirlings Old Town area (called Top of the Town by locals) Stirling Castle (Southwest aspect) The main courtyard inside Stirling Castle. ... The Baltic Highway and other trunk roads of Russia. ... The N9 road is a National Primary Road in the Republic of Ireland running from Junction 9 on the M7 motorway, located near Newbridge, County Kildare, to Waterford city. ... Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ... This article is about the country. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... Bypass routes are a type of bannered highway usually used when the main route of the highway goes through a town and an alternate route of the same highway goes around the highway. ... Linlithgow town in the background, the Loch in the mid-ground with the Palace in the foreground Linlithgow (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha, Scots Lithgae) is a town and Royal Burgh in Scotland. ... Falkirk (An Eaglais Bhreac, the Variagated [or Speckled] Church [presumably referring to a church building built of many-coloured stones]) in Scottish Gaelic, La Chapelle de Fayerie in French) is a town in central Scotland lying to the north west and north east of the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow... Grangemouth petrochemical works, November 2006 A map of Grangemouth from 1945 Grangemouth is a town and former burgh in the council area of Falkirk, Scotland, and formerly in the County of Stirling. ... Broad Street at the heart of Stirlings Old Town area (called Top of the Town by locals) Stirling Castle (Southwest aspect) The main courtyard inside Stirling Castle. ... Dunblane (Gaelic: Dùn Bhlàthain) is a small town north of Stirling in the Stirling council area in Scotland. ...

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. This spur has recently been extended, and since September 2007 now meets the A90 at Scotstoun, instead of ending at the single carriageway A8000 road two miles short of the bridge. Kingston Bridge M8 running alongside the Clyde This Stub in the Tradeston area, popularly known as the ski-ramp, is the abandoned interchange for the southern flank of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road For the highway connecting Moscow to Arkhangelsk, see M8 motorway (Russia). ... The A8 is a major road in Scotland, connecting Edinburgh to Greenock via Glasgow. ... An example of a four-level stack interchange in the Netherlands. ... A spur route in the United States Interstate highway system refers to a branch off of a primary interstate that connects with a destination away from the primary interstate. ... The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland. ... The A8000 The A8000 is a short, major road in Scotland, connecting the Forth Road Bridge to the M9 motorway. ...

The road shares space with one mile of the M876 en route to the Kincardine Bridge east of Stenhousemuir, at this point the motorway has 3 lanes in each direction, making it the most northerly stretch of Motorway in the UK to be 3 lanes wide. 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. The M876 motorway is a motorway in Scotland. ... The Kincardine Bridge on the River Forth. ... Stenhousemuir is a small town in the district of Falkirk, Scotland, situated to the north of Falkirk. ... The M80 motorway is a major motorway in central Scotland. ... // Lecropt is a rural parish lying to the west of Bridge of Allan, Scotland. ... The A9 north of Brora The A9 is a major road running from the Falkirk area in the south of Scotland to Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. ... This article refers to the town in Scotland. ...

Junction list

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See also

• List of motorways in the United Kingdom

List of motorways in the United Kingdom is a complete 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

	Motorways in the United Kingdom
Great Britain: M1 • M2 • M3 • M4 • M5 • M6 • M6 Toll • M8 • M9 • M10 • M11 • M18 • M20 • M23 • M25 • M26 • M27 • M32 • M40 • M42 • M45 • M48 • M49 • M50 • M53 • M54 • M55 • M56 • M57 • M58 • M60 • M61 • M62 • M65 • M66 • M67 • M69 • M73 • M74 • M77 • M80 • M90 • M180 • M181 • M271 • M275 • M602 • M606 • M621 • M876 • M898
A1(M) • A3(M) • A38(M) • A48(M) • A57(M) • A58(M) • A64(M) • A66(M) • A74(M) • A167(M) • A194(M) • A308(M) • A329(M) • A404(M) • A601(M) • A627(M) • A823(M)
	Northern Ireland: M1 • M2 • M3 • M5 • M12 • M22 • A8(M)	edit
Past: M16 • M41 • M63 • A18(M) • A40(M) • A41(M) • A102(M) • A6144(M)    Unbuilt: M12 • M13 • M15 • M31 • M64    Future: M4 Toll