A8 road
| A8 road in the UK | |
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| Start of the street: | Edinburgh |
| End of street: | Greenock |
| Overall length: | 69.0 km (42.9 mi ) |
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| Custom House Way in Greenock at the west end of the A8 (photo 2007) | |
The A8 road ( English for A8 ) is a largely through the M8 motorway replaced and mostly no longer route as the primary designated trunk road in Scotland . Your eastern beginning is in the center of Edinburgh . From there it leads to the M9 motorway , which it reaches at junction 1. At junction 6 of the M8 motorway east of Glasgow it branches off again from the M8 and runs parallel to it into the center of the city; the A80 road branches off to the northeast in the direction of Cumbernauld . Also west of Glasgow it runs parallel to the M8 to its end at junction 31 and from there on as a four-lane road, from here Primary route, along the Firth of Clyde via Port Glasgow to Greenock , where it is continued by the A78 road .