July 2017
Up to date with photos taken this past weekend.
Traffic is now running on the second carriageway to be built, on the line of the original single carriageway, so the northbound at the north end and the southbound at the south end. Temporary bits on the first carriageway are now being finished off, mainly around the structures where traffic had to be kept to the outer edges to allow the other half to be constructed from the middle.
This is the south end of the dual carriageway
Just north of that the carriageways on on slightly different levels to reduce the size of a rock cut.
Traffic crosses over just north of the Dunachton underpass, the surfacing over the underpass has to be completed where traffic was running on a temporary line while the other half was built.
This is the point where the widening switched side and the bit where the temporary carriageway was has been finished off (the freshest bit of surface)
With the shared use path along side
Looking along the north end
There's still a bit of work to be finished at the underpasses, the water is being pumped though pipes at Allt an Fhearna
The Dunachton Burn is currently flowing though the side where the road will be while the channel for the water is being completed.
The Leault Burn culvert has a bridge alongside it for the shared use path.
The Baldow Smiddy underpass is nearing completion, the small watercourse is behind the concrete wall.
At Lower Milehead the ground still needs to be built up to its final level.
There were numerous accesses directly off the A9 to property to the west of the road which have been closed. So as well as the four upgraded underpasses connecting to the B9152 there are two left-in, left-out junctions on the northbound carriageway.
This is the one at Leault Farm, which connects via a new access road to Dunachton Estate.
The other is at Alvie Estate, which is also served by the Lower Milehead Underpass nearby.
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