The M8, M73, M74, A725 Trunk Roads (Temporary Prohibitions of Traffic and Overtaking and Temporary Speed Restrictions) Order 2024
The Scottish Ministers give notice that they have made the following Order temporarily prohibiting traffic, temporarily prohibiting overtaking and temporarily restricting the speed of vehicles on the lengths of road identified in this Notice.
The Order, which is required because works are being or are proposed to be executed on or near the lengths of road, will be in operation from 1 February 2024 until 1 May 2024, but the prohibitions and restrictions contained in the Order will only be operational when the appropriate traffic signs are displayed.
No prohibition in the Order applies to vehicles being used in an emergency for fire brigade, ambulance, police or coastguard purposes or vehicles being used for carrying out the works. No speed restriction imposed by the Order applies to vehicles being used in the service of the Special Forces or vehicles being used in an emergency for coastguard purposes.
Where the closure of a carriageway on a dual carriageway road is involved the alternative route for traffic in relation to the lengths of road affected by the Order will be signposted. Detailed descriptions of the alternative routes and the works being carried out can also be obtained at the following offices:
Scottish Roads Partnership, 1E, Willow House, Kestrel View, Strathclyde Business Park, Bellshill, ML4 3PB, Telephone 0800 042 0188
For information about roadworks on motorways and trunk roads visit the Traffic Scotland website.
G Patterson
A Member of the Staff of the Scottish Ministers
Transport Scotland
George House
36 North Hanover Street
Glasgow
G1 2AD
Press Notice
The M8 (Newhouse to Easterhouse) M73 (Maryville to Mollinsburn) M74 (Daldowie to Hamilton) A725 (Shawhead to Whistleberry) Trunk Roads (Temporary Prohibitions of Traffic and Overtaking and Temporary Speed Restrictions) Order 2024
The following lengths of the M8/A8/A89 Edinburgh – Greenock Trunk Road:
1. The slip road from the eastbound M8 to the eastbound A8 at Baillieston, from the point where it diverges from the M73 southbound off slip road to a point 95 metres west of the circulatory carriageway of the roundabout situated at the junction of the A8 and the A89 Coatbridge Road, a distance of 635 metres or thereby.
2. The circulatory carriageway of the M8 Baillieston Interchange Roundabout, a distance of 803 metres or thereby.
Prohibitions on use and overtaking; and a 40mph speed restriction.
The following lengths of the M73 Maryville – Mollinsburn Trunk Road:
3. The slip road from the southbound M73 to the M8 Baillieston Interchange Roundabout, a distance of 569 metres or thereby.
4. The slip road from the M8 Baillieston Interchange Roundabout to the northbound M73, a distance of 800 metres or thereby.
5. The slip road from the M8 Baillieston Interchange Roundabout to the southbound carriageway of the M73, a distance of 350 metres or thereby.
6. The slip road from the northbound carriageway of the M73 to the M8 Baillieston Interchange Roundabout, a distance of 300 metres or thereby.
7. The slip road from the M73 to the M74 southbound carriageway to the point where it meets the slip road from the northbound M74 to Daldowie Junction, a distance of 466 metres or thereby.
Prohibitions on use and overtaking.
8. The slip road from the northbound carriageway of the M73 to the westbound carriageway of the M8, a distance of 1.32 kilometres or thereby.
9. The slip road from the southbound carriageway of the M73 to the northbound carriageway of the M74, from the point where the southbound carriageway of the M73 splits into the slip roads to the northbound and southbound carriageways of the M74 to the point where it merges with the M74 Northbound carriageway, a distance of 2.36 kilometres or thereby.
10. The slip road from the southbound carriageway of the M73 to the southbound carriageway of the M74, from the point where the southbound carriageway of the M73 splits into the slip roads to the northbound and southbound carriageways of the M74 to the point where it merges with the M74 Southbound carriageway, a distance of 1.29 kilometres or thereby.
11. The southbound carriageway from a point over the centre of the circulatory carriageway at the south side of the M8 Baillieston Interchange Roundabout to the point where the southbound carriageway of the M73 splits into the slip roads to the northbound and southbound carriageways of the M74, a distance of 1.6 kilometres or thereby.
12. The northbound carriageway from a point where the slip roads from the southbound and northbound carriageways of the M74 merge with the northbound carriageway of the M73 to a point over the centre of the circulatory carriageway at the south side of M8 Baillieston Interchange Roundabout, a distance of 1.6 kilometres or thereby.
Prohibitions on use and overtaking; and a 40mph speed restriction.
The following lengths of the M74/A74(M) Glasgow – Carlisle Trunk Road:
13. The slip road from Daldowie Junction to the northbound carriageway of the M74, a distance of 599 metres or thereby.
14. The slip road from the M74 Southbound to Daldowie Junction, a distance of 614 metres or thereby.
15. The southbound on slip road at the A721 southbound carriageway to the point where it meets the slip road from the M73 southbound carriageway to the M74 southbound carriageway, a distance of 535 metres or thereby.
16. The southbound on slip road at the A721 northbound carriageway to the point where it meets the A721 southbound on slip road to the M74, a distance of 32 metres or thereby.
17. The southbound off slip road at Bothwell Services, a distance of 300 metres or thereby.
18. The southbound on slip road at Bothwell Services, a distance of 280 metres or thereby.
19. The slip road from the southbound carriageway to the Raith Roundabout, a distance of 160 metres or thereby.
20. The slip road from the Raith Roundabout to the southbound carriageway, a distance of 371 metres or thereby.
21. The west most northbound on slip road at Junction 6 Hamilton, from a point 406 metres north of the diverge from the southbound junction 6 on slip road to the point where it merges with the northbound carriageway, a distance of 340 metres or thereby.
22. The northbound off slip road at Hamilton Services, a distance of 329 metres or thereby.
23. The northbound on slip road at Hamilton Services, a distance of 452 metres or thereby.
24. The slip road from the M74 northbound to the Raith Roundabout, a distance of 518 metres or thereby.
25. The slip road from the Raith Roundabout to the northbound carriageway of the M74, a distance of 389 metres or thereby.
Prohibitions on use and overtaking.
26. The northbound carriageway from a point 75 metres southeast of a point directly over the centreline of the pedestrian underpass at Junction 6 (Hamilton), generally north westwards to a point 606 metres west of the point directly under the centreline of the A721 Daldowie Drive, a distance of 8.73 kilometres or thereby.
27. The southbound carriageway from a point 615 metres west of a point directly under the centreline of the A721 Daldowie Drive, generally eastwards to a point 75 metres southeast of a point directly over the centreline of the pedestrian underpass at Junction 6 (Hamilton), a distance of 8.71 kilometres or thereby.
28. The slip road from the northbound carriageway of the M74 to the northbound carriageway of the M73, a distance of 2.05 kilometres or thereby.
29. The slip road from the southbound M74 to the northbound M73, a distance of 1.71 kilometres or thereby.
30. The slip road from the northbound M74 to Daldowie Junction, a distance of 1.3 kilometres or thereby.
Prohibitions on use and overtaking; and a 40mph speed restriction.
The following lengths of the A725/A726 Shawhead – East Kilbride – Philipshill Roundabout Trunk Road:
31. The northbound carriageway from a point directly over the centreline of the northbound on/off slip road at Orbiston Junction, generally northwards to a point directly under the centre of the circulatory carriageway at the south side of Bellziehill Junction, a distance of 964 metres or thereby.
32. The southbound carriageway from a point directly under the centre of the circulatory carriageway at the south side of Bellziehill Junction, generally southwards to a point directly over the centreline of the northbound on/off slip road at Orbiston Junction, a distance of 966 metres or thereby.
Prohibitions on use and overtaking; and a 40mph speed restriction and a 10mph speed restriction when there is convoy working.