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A89 | ||||
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Length | 35.8 mi (57.6 km) | |||
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West end | Glasgow | |||
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East end | Newbridge | |||
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Country | United Kingdom | |||
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TheA89 is a trunk road inScotland,United Kingdom. It runs fromHigh Street,Glasgow toNewbridge inEdinburgh. It was once theA8, which has now been replaced, mostly by theM8.[1]
Within Glasgow,The Gallowgate,Shettleston Road,Baillieston Road, Glasgow Road and [Baillieston] Main Street have the A89 designation. As well as the aforementioned neighbourhoods bearing the road names, the A89 also passes throughThe Calton, northernParkhead,Sandyhills andGarrowhill. Following major roadworks in the mid-2010s, the A89 now merges with the A8 Edinburgh Road (which has another meeting point atGlasgow Cross) for a short stretch nearSwinton before a large roundabout leads the routes to split again, with the A8 feeding an interchange for the M8 andM73 motorways while the A89 passes under the M73 as Coatbridge Road, whereupon a further roundabout then reinstates the A8 as an alternative route along its old path, parallel to the new M8).[2][3][4]
Leaving Glasgow, the A89 passes throughBargeddie,Coatbridge (meeting the start of theA725, effectively the south-eastern bypass of Glasgow),Airdrie (meeting theA73),Plains,Caldercruix,Blackridge,Armadale (meeting theA801 which connects the M8 and theM9),Bathgate,Boghall,Dechmont (meeting theA899Livingston Interchange),Uphall,Broxburn before terminating at a roundabout inNewbridge which feeds Junction 1 of the M9. At this point, the road continues east as the A8 towardsEdinburgh Airport, theA720 bypass then into the city itself.
55°52′59″N3°49′33″W / 55.88300°N 3.82584°W /55.88300; -3.82584
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