A9 dualling

[Mikehannah]

Hi
According to the “ new” plan for dualling the A9 the next section up is Ballinluig to Tay Crossing. Which is supposed to go out to tender in Spring 2024. Anyone want to bet it won’t happen?

[B9127]

Spring lasts from 20 March until 20 June so at the moment time is on their side

[Ruperts Trooper]

Spring lasts from 20 March until 20 June so at the moment time is on their side

Which definition - astronomical or meteorological, which is 1st March - 31st May.

[jnty]

Spring lasts from 20 March until 20 June so at the moment time is on their side

Which definition - astronomical or meteorological, which is 1st March - 31st May.

I'm sure infrastructure construction spring lasts until about September!

[Summers-lad]

Spring lasts from 20 March until 20 June so at the moment time is on their side

I did once hear a civil servant say that in civil service terms, spring means any time between March and November.

[Glen]

Hi
According to the “ new” plan for dualling the A9 the next section up is Ballinluig to Tay Crossing. Which is supposed to go out to tender in Spring 2024. Anyone want to bet it won’t happen?

Just as well anyone didn't take you up on that bet.
https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/nex ... very-plan/

[Mikehannah]

“ outlining intention” does not meaning anything.
I will wait and see if they start the tender process.

[B9127]

It does note that some advance works are to commence soon - which will probably be trees etc - still say the single bridge could have been let as a single contract and built in advance of the carraigeway works

[Burns]

If they dual Tay Crossing to Ballinluig, it'll put pressure on Dunkeld to get done. I hope you like the idea of a roundabout being slapped in at the busiest junction outside Perth and Inverness.

[jnty]

If they dual Tay Crossing to Ballinluig, it'll put pressure on Dunkeld to get done. I hope you like the idea of a roundabout being slapped in at the busiest junction outside Perth and Inverness.

Is Dunkeld holding up the project currently? I thought a final design had been more or less settled on, but construction isn't due to start for years. I wouldn't be surprised if the roundabout is built early as an interim safety measure.

[B9127]

best would be to use the existing carraigeway as northbound only and take the southbound off at the proposed temporary circle north of the Tay Crossing and send it through Dunkeld - that would focus minds

[Potholes ate my car]

With the SNP’s backtracking on net zero commitments, and the end of the Bute House Agreement, I wonder if we’ll see the A9 dualling being pushed back up the agenda?

[jnty]

With the SNP’s backtracking on net zero commitments, and the end of the Bute House Agreement, I wonder if we’ll see the A9 dualling being pushed back up the agenda?

I doubt it - the A9 was always excluded from the agreement, and the current fashion for net zero climbdowns is a lack of money, not a desperate desire to build stuff.