M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Improvements
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M8 M73 M74 Motorway M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Improvements SRP is the consortium that has designed, built, financed and will operate the M8, M73 and M74 for the next 30 Safety years. It consists of Meridiam Infrastructure, Pension Infrastructure Platform (PIP), Amey and Cintra. When driving through roadworks, consider the safety of road workers and other members of the travelling public by staying alert, following signage, driving to the conditions and observing restrictions. Failing to maintain a safe speed in roadworks poses a serious threat to life so please reduce your speed and drive with care. When driving in winter conditions please take extra care, plan your journey and consider allowing addtional time to reach your destination. Check the latest updates from Traffic Scotland and the Met Office to ensure you are fully aware of current and Contact us Scottish Roads Partnership predicted conditions. Scottish Roads Partnership Disposing of your litter properly, either in a designated bin or Campbell House M8 M73 M74 M8 Central Business Park by taking it home, protects biodiversity, animals and the natural Greenside Road Motorway beauty of our countryside. It also minimise the risks to road Newhouse worker safety, if they are not required to clean up carriageways Motherwell Improvements and roadsides. ML1 5FL Email: [email protected] Tel: 0800 042 0188 Traffic Scotland For the latest traffic and travel information visit: https://www.trafficscotland.org/ Transport Scotland Information can be found on website: https://www.transport.gov.scot/projects The Route Legend Project delivery Project overview Project Roads This major investment is: Railway ●● Improving journey times and journey time A new M8 motorway was constructed between N Stirling The first section M73 Junction 3 Existing Motorway reliability through the Central Scotland Baillieston and Newhouse Junctions. Moodiesburn /M80 Junction4 Existing Roads motorway network from Baillieston to Eurocentral was constructed across a green- M80 M73 field site. The second, continued from Eurocentral to Newhouse Waterbodies ●● Helping promote sustainable economic Settlements Junctions, over the existing A8 footprint with an all-purpose road A80 growth by improving access to facilities and (APR) constructed alongside. This completes the M8 ‘Missing Link’ employment areas ●● and further improves connections between Scotland’s two largest A73 Reducing emissions and tackling climate cities and commercial centres – Edinburgh and Glasgow - and change by improving air quality and providing health improvement beyond. Bishop Woodend ●● Loch Loch Reducing the time to transport goods and services M8 Junction 10 Easterhouse ●● Lockend Better connectivity between Glasgow and Loch Airdrie Glasgow (North)M8 Edinburgh and to the South 1 M8 Junction 9 M8 Junction 8 /M73 Junction 2 ●● A8 Baillieston Interchange A89 A73 Cutting congestion ●● Improving road safety through the reduction Coatbridge of traffic on local roads, reducing lane A8 changing and helping prevent weaving M73 Glasgow (South) North Calder Water between lanes 3 New M8 2 M8 Junction 6 M8 Junction 6a Newhouse M8 M74 Chapelhall ●● M8 Junction 7a For further information on the current Birkenshaw New M8 New A8 M74 Junction 3 Shawhead Daldowie M8 Junction 7 New M8 operating status of the network please visit: A721 Eurocentral Edinburgh M74 Junction 4 New A8 A725 Holytown /M73 Junction 1 Viewpark Newton Maryville Bellshill 5 A775 Interchange www.m8dbfo.com Uddingston 4 M74 River Clyde A721 A724 Bothwell Maintaining the Network M74 Junction 5 Raith Extent of Network Strathclyde Country Park Operation and Maintenance of the Construction on the Project Roads includes: A723 Blantyre Project Roads includes the provision of: Motherwell 1 M8 J10 Easterhouse to J6 Newhouse A725 ●● Winter Services ●● Motorway Carlisle M74 Junction 6 ●● Communications 2 A8 all-purpose road from Bailleston to Newhouse Hamilton Hamilton M74 Street Lighting ●● Emergency ●● Inspections and 3 M73 J1 Maryville to J3 Mollinsburn Surveys The Route Response ●● ●● Signing 4 M74 J3A Daldowie to J6 Hamilton & Motherwell A Trunk Road Incident Support Service (TRISS) provides assistance to road users and the Sweeping and ●● emergency services, operating seven days a week from 6am to 7.30pm. A full winter service Cleaning Repairing Defects A725 Shawhead to Bothwell Bridge via Raith Underpass is maintained including salt spreading and snow clearing, in addition to road surface repair ●● Trunk Road ●● Road Markings 5 and A7071 Bellshill Road from Raith roundabout towards and structures schemes, road marking improvements, litter removal, & gully cleaning, and the Incident Support ●● Grass Cutting Bothwell. repair to streetlighting and traffic signals. ●● Drainage.