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the Scottish Borders

Biggar Road

A72

Also runs asLanark Road
  • Water
Plan a drive around it
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8 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the A72 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape.
Length
3.8 km
How curvy
Mostly straight
2% curviness — Gentle bends at most, averaged along its length.
Curvy metres
93
How these scores are measured

Curvy metres is curviness multiplied by length: how much genuine curve this road actually gives you, rather than how tight its tightest corner is. It is the number that separates a mountain pass from a housing estate.

Speed limits along it

What is on the poles along this stretch, by share of its length.

  • 30 mph25%
  • 40 mph36%
  • national limit (60)39%

Runs past

  • Symington·village·230 m
  • Coulter·village·1.7 km
  • Coulterhaugh·hamlet·920 m

Distances are approximate: the closest this stretch is known to come.

No Twistly drives use the A72 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the A72

Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this stretch, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the road — we have no evidence any of them shows it.