- A749 road
UK road routebox
road= A749
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direction= South - North
start=East Kilbride
destinations=East Kilbride Nerston Rutherglen Glasgow
end=Glasgow
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junctions=The A749 road connects
East Kilbride New Town withGlasgow City Centre. The road starts off at a roundabout called "The Whirlies", with a junction for theA725 road , starting as adual carriageway . The road continues and it meets another roundabout for the A749 spur which leads onto the A725 road. The road continues and goes past the Kingsgate Retail Park. After a traffic light junction the road becomes National Speed Limit through open countryside descending.Around two miles north-west there is a grade separated junction for the
B759 road to Cambuslang and Carmunock and the road reduces to a 40 mile per hour speed limit. The road continues after another roundabout where an unclassified road forCathkin joins. The road continues for another brief spell as a 40 mile per hour dual carriageway.Soon afterwards the road drops to a 30 mile per hour zone and the dual carriageway section ends. Passing through the Burnside the road becomes urban and continues this down to Rutherglen. It crosses the
River Clyde and enters Dalmarnock still heading in a northwesterly direction.The road approaches
Bridgeton and it continues past theB763 road as Dalmarnock Road, although road signs suggest Dunn Street heading west is the A749 when this is incorrectFact|date=August 2008|require reliable source for signage issues. At Bridgeton the road switches to London Road and carries on west to Glasgow City Centre passing the Barras flea market. It forms a brief part of the one way system along with theA89 road on the eastern edge of the city of Glasgow.It ends at a grade junction with the
A8 road as Trongate continues into the heart of Glasgow City Centre unclassified.External links
* [http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/roadlists/r10/notes.php?number=A749 SABRE page on A749 road]
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name = GB A road zone 7
state = {state|collapsed}
title = A roads in Zone 7 of theGreat Britain road numbering scheme
list1 = A7•A70•A71•A72•A73•A74•A75•A76•A77•A78•A79•A701•A702•A720•A727•A749
list2 = List of A roads in Zone 7
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