M80 motorway
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The M80 motorway is a major motorway in the United Kingdom. The motorway is in two halves, the southern section running from Glasgow to Stepps, and the northern section from Haggs to Stirling.
The road begins at M8 Junction 13 in the Glasgow suburb of Blochairn. Striking northeast, the road serves the Glasgow commuter towns of Bishopbriggs, Lenzie and Kirkintilloch.
After just 4 miles however, the motorway swings to the right and comes to an abrupt halt at a temporary terminus at the Crowwood Roundabout, arguably Glasgow's busiest. This section of the motorway is known locally as the Stepps bypass.
A 12 mile gap in the road is present between Stepps and Haggs, where traffic must use the outdated A80 route through Cumbernauld. Only once the A80 reaches Haggs does the M80 begin again.
The motorway continues from here, throwing off a spur (the M876 taking traffic to the Kincardine Bridge) before its junction with the Stirling-bound A91. A few hundred yards on, the motorway ends when it merges with the M9 just outside Stirling at Bannockburn.
The Scottish Executive plan to complete the route in the near future, as a partially on-line and off-line upgrade of the A80, featuring a new junction with the M73 amongst others. While work has not explicitly begun on this route, one of the major junctions on the A80, the Auchenkilns Roundabout, was experiencing such traffic problems that it is already being grade separated anyway.