Summer Drive East On M8 Motorway From Glasgow To Quensferry Crossing Road Bridge Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music., from Dennistoun in Glasgow, East on the M8, M9, and M90 motorways to visit and cross the Queensferry Crossing Road Bridge which spans the Firth Of Forth. The M8 is the busiest motorway in Scotland and one of the busiest in the United Kingdom. It connects the country's two largest cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and serves other large communities including Airdrie, Coatbridge, Greenock, Livingston and Paisley. The M8, more explicitly the Glasgow section, is unusual amongst UK motorways, and more similar to many US Interstates, in that it directly serves, and bisects, a large urban area, whereas most other motorways bypass such conurbations. 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.

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 so stick to 70 max and stay in the right lane for your speed. Once you have joined the motorway, you should stay in the left hand lane unless you’re overtaking slower moving traffic. If you do decide to overtake, use the usual mirror, signal, manoeuvre procedure when moving in and out of lanes and avoid sitting in the middle or outside lanes. Watch out for large vehicles like lorries changing lanes, they have much bigger blind spots than you so keep your distance. With cars travelling at such high speeds you need to allow far more space to stop. Follow the 2 second rule to ensure there is enough space between you and the car in front.

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