Further to the comments by the Minister for Transport and Telecommunications on 7 December 2005 (Official Report c. 21530), where it measur…

The Scottish Executive has 12 permanent automatic traffic counters located on the A76. Traffic data from these sites is collected on an hourly basis. The data is then loaded and held within the Scottish Roads Traffic Database.
The site locations and Annual Average Daily Flows from January 2000 are as follows:
Location
| 2000
| 2001
| 2002
| 2003
| 2004
| 2005*

Immediately northwest of A75
| 19,296
| 18,923
| 20,461
| 23,963
| 24,169
| 23,849

Newbridge Diversion
| 7,476
| 6,840
| 5,934
| 8,030
| 8,171
| 7,402

Northwest of Auldgirth
| 5,082
| 4,906
| 5,188
| 5,250
| 5,333
| 5,565

Between Carronbridge and Enterkinfoot
| 2,992
| 2,329
| 2,486
| 2,708
| 3,156
| 2,818

Mennock
| 3,004
| 2,886
| 2,861
| 3,074
| 3,255
| 3,166

Polshill Bridge
| 2,521
| N/A
| N/A
| 2,881
| 2,965
| 2,968

Cumnock/Auchinleck Bypass (B7083 and A70)
| N/A
| 4,469
| 5,282
| 5,792
| 6,083
| 5,483

Cumnock/Auchinleck Bypass (A70 and B7083)
| N/A
| N/A
| 4,923
| 5,801
| 6,047
| 6,289

Little Heateth
| N/A
| N/A
| 9,649
| 9,480
| 9,784
| 10,308

Crosshands
| 8,163
| 9,598
| 9,894
| 10,138
| 9,133
| 9,126

Crossroads
| 10,239
| N/A
| 10,811
| 10,193
| 11,637
| 11,389

Bowhouse Roundabout
| 9,529