A73
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| From: | Cumbernauld (NS741739) | |||||||||||||||
| To: | Abington (NS736262) | |||||||||||||||
| Length: | 38 miles (61.2 km) | |||||||||||||||
| Meets: | A702, A72, A70, A743, A706, A721, A71, A722, A775, A8, A89, A8010, A8011, A80 | |||||||||||||||
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Route
Abington is on the M74 (j13) and the A73 branches off the A702 just north of this junction, running non-primary down the Clyde Valley. At a narrow bridge outside Wiston in 2010 a 17 year old girl, Natasha Paton was killed after her Lanark Grammar Bus slid off the road and into a burn and she was trapped under the bus. The road was gritted. The road conditions had detioratred that morning. The A73 goes round the Tinto Hills to Symington, where it meets and multiplexes with the A72 as far as Lanark. Briefly, where they cross the Clyde at Garrion Bridge, the A70 also multiplexes with the A72/A73).
At Lanark the A72 and A73 part company, the A73 heading next for Carluke, where it becomes primary. Crossing the A71 at Newmains it next meets the M8 at junction 8 - the point where it becomes the A8.
Non-primary again, it passes through Airdrie, meeting the A89, and ends at Cumbernauld on the A80. This is therefore one of only two 2-digit 7-roads to go out-of-zone.
History
Hyndford Bridge was built in 1773 as a vital lifeline to the south. It is now operated by traffic lights because the bridge is single file
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