A754 (Renfrewshire)
A754 | ||||
Location Map ( geo) | ||||
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From: | Braehead (NS519665) | |||
To: | Nitshill (NS519612) | |||
Distance: | 3.5 miles (5.6 km) | |||
Met (1975): | A8, M8, A737, A736 | |||
Former Number(s): | B770 | |||
Now part of: | A736 | |||
Traditional Counties | ||||
Route outline (key) | ||||
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For an earlier A754, now part of the A721, see A754 (Carluke - Carstairs).
The A754 was a north-south road to the west of Glasgow, created at some point soon after 1968, when the B770 was upgraded to Class I. The A754 is first shown on an OS 1:2500 sheet from 1971, but it is possible that it was renumbered when the Motorway and Hillington Interchange first opened in 1968 and that it took some time for the maps to be updated.
Starting at Hillington Interchange (then J7, now J26) on the M8, where it also met the A8, the A754 headed southwards through Hillington itself. It crossed the A737 (now A761) at Crookston and continued in the same direction across the White Cart Water and into Nitshill, where it ended on the A736. It was extended a few metres to the north to meet the realigned A8 at the roundabout just north of Hillington Interchange when the motorway was extended to the east in 1976. Later the A736 was rerouted to avoid the suburbs of Glasgow, taking on the entire route of the A754 and making the number redundant.