The Queensferry Crossing and other roads in Fife will shut for periods during a major cycling event this weekend.
The UCI Cycling World Championships, which started in Glasgow on Thursday, are visiting the kingdom on Sunday.
As a result, the M90 motorway will face a temporary closure for one of the events to take place.
Details have been revealed by organisers, who are urging drivers to plan ahead.
Queensferry Crossing closure for UCI Cycling World Championships
The Men’s Elite Road Race will take place on Sunday August 6.
It will start in Edinburgh and finish in Glasgow city centre – passing through southern Fife on the way.
The race sets off from Holyrood Park before heading up the Royal Mile and through Edinburgh’s Old Town, passing under Edinburgh Castle as the cyclists head down the Mound and towards the Queensferry Crossing.
Once across the bridge, the riders will head west along the Fife coast before crossing back over the Firth of Forth and heading past Falkirk towards Glasgow.
Route through Fife
The racers will cross into Fife at approximately 10am before travelling the following route:
- Ferrytoll Road
- Castle Road
- Hilton Road, Rosyth
- A985 to Craigwell Path, Crombie
- Cairneyhill Roundabout
- B9037 through Main Street Torryburn to Main Street Newmills
- Main Street and Low Causeway, Low Valleyfield
- Low Causeway to Sandhaven to Balgonie West, Culross
- C5 Culross to Longannet Roundabout to Toll Road, Kincardine
- Feregait, Kincardine to Kilbagie Roundabout
Upon leaving Kincardine, the race will take the first exit at Kilbagie Roundabout and cross the Clackmannanshire Bridge.
There will be a rolling road closure on the event route.
Organisers say on the day, there will be no access/egress to the route in southern Fife between 9.45am and 11am.
UCI Cycling World Championships to visit Perthshire and Angus
The world championships are also visiting Perthshire and Angus in the coming days.
On Friday, the Gran Fondo takes place in Perth and Highland Perthshire with hundreds of cyclists expected to take to the roads.
We have full details on all you need to know about the Gran Fondo in Perthshire.
Meanwhile the Gran Fondo time trial takes place on the A92 in Angus on Monday.
It will mean road closures between Dundee and Arbroath – with all you need to know about the Angus event in our handy guide.
Stagecoach has already warned passengers across Tayside and Fife that a number of bus services will be disrupted during the various events.
