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The A74(M) and M74 form a major motorway in Scotland, connecting it to England. The routes connect the M8 motorway in central Glasgow to the Scottish-English border at Gretna . They are part of the unsigned international E-road network E05 .
The A725 road in Scotland is a major route which is a trunk road dual carriageway for almost its whole length, [2] connecting several of the large towns of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire, linking the M8 and M74 motorways; it has been upgraded frequently since its construction, with the most recent major work completed in 2017.
It is 7 miles (11 km) long and connects the M74 motorway with the M80 motorway, providing an eastern bypass for Glasgow. The short stretch between junctions 1 and 2 is part of unsigned international E-road network E05, where it continues along the M8 through Glasgow. To the south, the M74 motorway is also part of the E05.
Glasgow's transport network is administered by a number of authorities. Transport Scotland is responsible for the construction, expansion and maintenance of trunk roads and motorways within the city (such as the M8, M73, M74 and M77 motorways), with the city government, Glasgow City Council responsible for all other roads.
M74 or M-74 may refer to: M74 light mortar; M74 motorway, a motorway in Scotland; Messier 74, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces; M74 rocket, an incendiary rocket for a shoulder-fired M202A1 FLASH launcher; M74 armored recovery vehicle, a variant of the M4 Sherman tank; M-74 (Michigan highway), a former state highway in Michigan
The sections between Abington & Carluke and Cumbernauld & Newhouse were the first sections to be downgraded from a trunk route to a secondary route, following the construction of the shorter M73 further west, which connected the M74 at Jct. 4. This motorway removed the need for vehicles from the north to use the A73 to reach England.
Roads started to be classified with route numbers in 1921, [15] with the Glasgow – Carlisle road receiving the number A74, mostly following the route as designed by Telford. On 16 May 1936, the road was diverted away from Telford's route to run from Glasgow to Motherwell via Uddingston — it is a portion of this realignment that forms the ...
Abington is a village in the Scottish council region of South Lanarkshire, close to the M74 motorway, marking the point where it changes name to the A74(M), following the upgrade of the former A74 road.