page_title: Inverkip
section_title: Road Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Inverkip / History / Road Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: A78 Inverkip Bypass Recent housing developments mean that the 35 year old 'bypass' now actually bisects the village. The dark horizontal band around Cauldron Hill in the background is the Greenock Cut which delivered water to the town from Loch Thom for industrial and domestic use until made redundant by a tunnel in 1971. The Cut is currently being restored and made more accessible to all 129696 Compare with this photo 388135 which was taken 11 months later.
context_page_description: Inverkip is a village and parish in the Inverclyde council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland, 4 miles southwest of Greenock and 9 miles north of Largs on the A78 trunk road. The village takes its name from the River Kip. It is served by Inverkip railway station.
context_section_description: The village stands on the A78 coast road which runs from Greenock to Monkton, near Prestwick Airport. Main Street was the A78 road until the bypass opened in the early 1970s.
  The single carriageway bypass road was designed with wide margins to provide long sight lines and to enable future construction of a dual carriageway if traffic demanded it. Evidence of this can be seen at the flyover at the power station access road, which is dual carriageway, with just one side being used.
  Despite the bypass, Main Street is still congested due to the presence of many parked cars.
caption: The A78 Inverkip Bypass
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