A749 (road)

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Notes Primary destinations as specified by the Department for Transport.

A749 road
Direction	South - North
Start	East Kilbride
Primary destinations¹	East Kilbride Nerston Rutherglen Glasgow
End	Glasgow
Roads joined

The A749 road connects East Kilbride New Town with Glasgow City Centre. The road starts off at a roundabout called "The Whirlies", with a junction for the A725 road, starting as a dual 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 an innocent 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 for Cathkin 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 very 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 the B763 road as Dalmarnock Road, although road signs suggest Dunn Street heading west is the A749 when this is incorrect. At Bridgeton the road switches to London Road and carries on west to Glasgow City Centre passing the famous "Barras". It forms a brief part of the one way system along with the A89 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.