Late Autumn Road Trip Drive From Stirling Over Queensferry Crossing Scotland

Tour Scotland late Autumn travel video of an afternoon road trip drive from Stirling West on the M9 and M90 motorways, with Scottish music, all the way to cross the Queensferry Crossing the new Forth Road Bridge which spans the Firth of Forth. It might surprise you, but motorways are actually the safest roads to drive on in Scotland. It's the speed you're travelling at that makes all the difference between safe and unsafe motorway driving. For car drivers, the national speed limit on a motorway is 70 mph, but look out for exceptions to this. Where there are road works for instance you may see signs indicating a lower speed and you’ll need to respond by slowing down. Breaking the speed limit is both dangerous and illegal. The Queensferry Crossing, formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing, is a road bridge built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge which carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, into Fife and onwards to Perthshire, at North Queensferry. The bridge is 683 feet high above high tide, equivalent to approximately 48 London buses stacked on top of each other and 25% higher than existing Forth Road Bridge. It is estimated the construction involved approximately 10 million man hours. The Queensferry Crossing is 28.2 miles from Stirling, 33 miles from Perth, Perthshire and 14 miles from Edinburgh

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