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Transport Scotland wrote:Transport Scotland has announced a package of improvements for the A737 at Dalry in North Ayrshire worth £249,300.
Transport Minister Tavish Scott wrote:This is good news for North Ayrshire and in particular, Dalry. It is clear that the town centre suffers from congestion, particularly at peak times and that this needs to be dealt with.
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Judging by the time its taking them to build that roundabout at the B777 junction, I wouldn't hold your breath. I wish I could be more optomistic but the A737 is one of those routes that always seems to get overlooked by the politicians.
"work to progress the £28 million Dalry Bypass will get underway thanks to an initial £10 million investment. This new funding allows this scheme to progress through its preparatory stages into the construction phase subject to satisfactory completion of the statutory process...
The initial funding package for the A737 covers the current three year period of the spending review with any remaining costs to be allocated from future reviews."
I assume £28m means the junctions will be single level
The grade separated D2 part of the A737 ends at Johnstone, other upgraded parts of the route, such as the Beith bypass, are S2.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Dalry bypass is WS2+1 like Fochabers/Mosstodloch (which was £31M).
The Fochabers and Mosstodloch Bypass is a road scheme completed in 2012 which constructed bypasses of the villages of Fochabers and Mosstodloch in Moray on the A96trunk road.
The A96 between Inverness and Aberdeen passes though various towns along its routes, several of these towns such as Forres and Huntly have been bypassed or had other improvements to improve traffic flow through them over the years. In Fochabers the A96 ran through the
Details of the scheme have probably been on the web since the exhibition date (last Friday), but I forgot to look until now. They are here. It's WS2+1. The preferred route is on "board 6" and on page 2 of the "summary brochure". Other routes considered are on "board 5".
The main purpose in the Beith scheme is to remove the poor junctions and the best way of doing that is to realign the road to accommodate new roundabouts. It also has the advantage of providing to overtaking provision with a WS2+1 section.
The existing road may be a bypass, but it's built to old standards and is too close to the town to improve on its existing alignment.
There are indeed good reasons for the design, just commenting that it's an unusual upgrade.
For this situation to arise you need (1) an early S2 bypass (this one dates from the 30s) below modern standards that (2) has significant congestion and/or safety issues with (3) the political will to fix them, but (4) doesn't now warrant a dual carriageway.
It's pretty unusual for all 4 conditions to be satisfied.
Minister for Transport and the Islands Humza Yousaf has today marked the start of a £31.2 million project to construct a bypass at Dalry.
Mr Yousaf was on-site to break ground on the new bypass which will be built to the east of the North Ayrshire town.
The project will involve the construction of a four kilometre bypass as well as two new roundabouts, at Hillend and Highfield, and a viaduct to carry the new road over the River Garnock and the Glasgow to Ayr railway line. Works will also be required to connect the new Bypass to the existing A737 Trunk Road east of Highfield.
Transport Scotland appointed contractor Farrans Roadbridge Joint Venture in May to construct the bypass.
Upon completion the bypass will encourage improved economic and employment opportunities through better journey time reliability for motorists and businesses along the length of the A737. In addition, the Dalry Bypass will help separate local and strategic traffic, leading to improved safety for both rural road users and communities.
Mr Yousaf said:
“I am delighted to be here at Dalry today, to mark the start of the first of two major investments on the A737 to improve this key route in the southwest of Scotland.
"Delivery of the scheme will help strengthen the economy for the local communities by providing improved journey times as well reducing the demand placed upon the current road by long-distance road users.
"The Scottish Government is committed to having a safer and more efficient transport network and the start of work today is another step forward to delivering this for the people of Scotland.”
Brian Snow, Project Manager, Farrans Roadbridge said:
“Farrans Roadbridge are delighted to have been selected as the contractor to complete the A737 Dalry Bypass and look forward to a successful partnership with Transport Scotland during the construction period.”
Construction is expected to be complete by the end of 2019.