The two-way single carriageway road, with independent shared pedestrian and cycle ways, will run from the M8 at Newhouse to north of Riggend.
It is designed to improve traffic flow and reduce journey times across North Lanarkshire, improve connections between residential areas and town centres to open up employment and education opportunities for residents, and to facilitate improvements to local bus transport.
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The road will be part of the council's wider Pan-Lanarkshire orbital transport corridor between the M8 and Cumbernauld, supported by investment from the Glasgow City Region City Deal.
A planning application is expected to be submitted in summer 2022, subject to approval from the Glasgow City Region City Deal.
