Scottish Government urged to “push accelerator” on stalled A9 dualling work
A former Scottish government minister says the £3 billion A9 upgrade must speed up after fresh doubts emerged over funding for the delayed project. The Press and Journal newspaper reports veteran SNP politician Fergus Ewing raised concerns about progress on the Perth-Inverness route and urged party colleagues to deliver the promise to upgrade the road. […]
Transport Scotland awarding contracts for A9 Dualling
£2.2 million worth of contracts have been awarded for the preparatory work to turn the Tomatin to Moy stretch of the A9 in Scotland into a dual carriageway. Inverness based AOC Holdings is the successful tenderer for an archaeology contract worth approximately £650,000 and Wills Bros Civil Engineering gets around £1.5 million of enabling works […]
Dualled section of A9 open to motorists
The £96 million upgrade of the A9 between Luncarty and Pass of Birnam has been opened to traffic. All traffic management including lane and speed restrictions were removed over the weekend, allowing road users access to the 9.5 km of new dual carriageway between Luncarty, north of Perth, and the Pass of Birnam by Monday […]
Transport Scotland starts search for contractor for A9 Dualling Tomatin to Moy scheme
Transport Scotland has started its search for contractors for its A9 Dualling Tomatin to Moy scheme. Work includes the upgrade of approximately 9.6km of existing A9 single and overtaking wide single 2+1 (WS2+1) carriageway to dual carriageway standard, between the existing dual carriageway sections to the south of Tomatin and to the north of Moy. […]
Four more A9 dualling schemes given approval
Scottish Ministers have given the go-ahead to completing the statutory procedures for four more schemes on the A9 Dualling Perth to Inverness. The work to prepare Made Orders for these four schemes totalling over 35 km is well underway with publication expected over the coming months. We also expect Public Local Inquiry Reports to be […]
Workers return to A9 dualling project
Four months after stopping work because of social distancing concerns, crews working on turning the A9 in Scotland into a dual carriageway are back at work. Management decided to stop the work in April but the Courier reports that site bosses have confirmed that teams are working at the Luncarty to Birnam stretch again. Contractors […]