Roundabout at St Ninians
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Image: © G Laird Taken: 6 May 2017
In the early 1960s, this junction was very different. There was no exit to the north and there were no M80 and M9 motorways. All traffic therefore had to go through Stirling. This was then the intersection of the A80 from Glasgow and the A9 from Edinburgh. It was then a notorious bottleneck.