M9 motorway

The M9 at Newbridge near Edinburgh

The M9 is a motorway that runs from outskirts of Edinburgh, bypassing the towns of Linlithgow, Falkirk, Grangemouth and Stirling to end at Dunblane in Perthshire.

Route

The road is approximately 30 miles long, 20 miles of which are in Stirlingshire. It runs in a roughly north-west direction from the M8 motorway, meeting 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 was extended in September 2007 and now meets the A90 at Scotstoun, instead of ending at the single carriageway A8000 road two miles short of the bridge.

The road shares space with a mile of the M876 en route to the Kincardine Bridge east of Stenhousemuir, at this point the motorway has three lanes in each direction, making it the most northerly stretch of motorway in the UK to be three lanes wide. At Stirling it meets the M80 (junction 9 of both motorways), 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. Services are located at the M9/M80 junction, accessed via a roundabout which allows access to all routes.

Junctions

M9 motorway
Northbound exits	Junction	Southbound exits
Midlothian
Start of motorway	M8 J2	Glasgow, Livingston M8 Edinburgh M8
Edinburgh Airport A8 Broxburn, Uphall, Bathgate A89	J1	Edinburgh Airport A8 Broxburn A89
West Lothian
Forth Road Bridge, Perth, Dundee (M90)	J1a	Forth Road Bridge, Perth, Dundee A90, (M90), Aberdeen
None	J2	Uphall B8046 Forth Road Bridge, Kincardine Bridge A904
Linlithgow A803 Bo'ness A904	J3	None
Stirlingshire
Bathgate, Livingston A801 Polmont A803	J4	Bathgate, Livingston A801 Linlithgow A803, Kirkliston B9080 Polmont A803
Grangemouth, Falkirk A905	J5	Grangemouth, Bo'ness A905
None	J6	Grangemouth, Falkirk A905
Kincardine Bridge M876	J7	Kincardine Bridge M876
Glasgow M876	J8	None
Stirling A91	J9	Denny A872 Glasgow, Carlisle M80
Stirling services
Stirling, Callander, Crianlarich A84	J10	Stirling A84
Perthshire
Perth, Inverness A9 Bridge of Allan A9 Doune B824 Dunblane B8033	J11 (Terminus)	Start of motorway

Outside links

• City of Edinburgh Council Leaflet (PDF)
• Forth Estuary Transport Authority Project Page
• The Motorway Archive – M9