Friarton Bridge
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| Friarton Bridge | |
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 Friarton Bridge, viewed from Kinnoull Hill |
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| Carries | M90 |
| Crosses | River Tay |
| Locale | Perth, Scotland |
| Design | Segmental |
| Longest span | 570 feet (174 m) |
| Opening date | 1974 |
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The Friarton Bridge is a road bridge across the Firth of Tay in Perth , Scotland. It is situated on the southeastern outskirts of Perth, approximately 25 miles upstream of the Tay Road Bridge. It is part of the M90 motorway, and is one of the northernmost sections of motorway in the United Kingdom. It forms part of the important east coast road corridor from Edinburgh to Dundee and Aberdeen.
The bridge spans the river, a row of electricity pylons, the Dundee-Perth railway line, a number of warehouses and the A85 high above the surrounding plain.
It is a two-lane dual carriageway; unusually for a motorway (although not unusually for the M90) neither carriageway has a hard shoulder. It was built in 1978, when it was designated as the M85 motorway. When the A85 from the north end of the bridge to Dundee was renumbered in the early 1990s to A90 through to Dundee, the motorway's designation changed to M90 to provide a continuous route number from Edinburgh to Fraserburgh.
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 A view southwest from Kinnoull Hill, with Friarton Bridge in the distance, showing the M90's junction with the A85 |
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