A96 road (Great Britain)
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| Length: | 102 mi (164 km) |
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| South end: |
Aberdeen 57°09′00″N 2°05′38″W / 57.1500°N 2.0939°W |
 A944 road A978 road A90 road A947 road A920 road A97 road A95 road A98 road A941 road A940 road A939 road A9 road
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Inverness 57°28′55″N 4°11′29″W / 57.4820°N 4.1914°W |
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Inverness, Elgin, Huntly, Aberdeen |
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The A96 is a major road in the north of Scotland.
It runs generally west/north-west from Aberdeen, bypassing Blackburn, Kintore, Inverurie, Huntly, Fochabers and Forres, and running through Keith, Elgin and Nairn. The road terminates at the A9 outside Inverness.
The road begins with a junction with the A956 near King Street in Aberdeen city centre, as a dual carriageway and goes on to form part of the Mounthooly roundabout. It then exits Aberdeen to the North West, meeting the A90 at the Haudagain Roundabout, a notoriously busy junction. It then passes Bucksburn, and has a junction with Aberdeen Airport. The road is then dual carriageway until Inverurie, where it becomes single carriageway at the second roundabout, and from then on is mostly single carriageway until just before it meets the A9 in Inverness.
The A96 has a poor safety record in the substantial single carriageway section, and the road has topped polls to find the most unpopular roads in Scotland on more than one occasion. Debate about a new section of road to bypass Fochabers took place for a number of years. When the new bridge was built over the River Spey (in about 1970), it was built to be in line with a possible northern route. The bypass is to the north of Fochabers and south of Mosstodloch, construction started on 2 February 2010 and was opened in January 2012. The road still passes through many major towns on the route, including Elgin, Nairn and Keith.
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