Transport Scotland

Details for long-awaited work to improve the traffic flow across the Swallow Roundabout in Dundee have been announced with a date for work to start confirmed. The project will begin on Monday 17th June and is expected to complete in summer 2025.

Cabinet secretary for transport Fiona Hyslop visited the Rest and Be Thankful this week to see first-hand the upgraded section of the diversionary route for the A83 – as the first phase of the medium term works near completion.

More than 40 landowners, including Transport Scotland, SSE Renewables, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, and Tomatin Distillery were invited to meet by representatives of the Strathdearn community to encourage communication and transparency around community benefits from land in the area. The even

The taskforce assembled to take forward the paused project to redevelop Ardrossan Harbour has met to discuss the next steps for the planned upgrade of the facility.

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has published a plant industry best practice guide to bridge strike avoidance in an effort to educate the plant industry, reduce the estimated 2,000 road and railway bridge strikes that occur each year, and keep members of the plant industry and all road

Transport Scotland has alerted construction contractors and their supply chains to the next procurement opportunity associated with the A9 Dualling programme.

Work on a new bus only link that connects Raigmore Hospital to Raigmore Estate has been completed. The project is funded by Transport Scotland’s Bus Partnership Fund (BPF) and delivered by the Bus Service Improvement Partnership (BSIP) Group, comprised of the Highland Council, NHS Highland, HI

As the first phase of the medium term works to improve the resilience of the Old Military Road at the A83 continue, detailed ground investigations to inform the next phase of the work are to get underway next month.

A series of public engagement events will let the public see the progress being made in developing a long-term solution (LTS) to the landslip risks at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful.

Cabinet secretary for transport Fiona Hyslop has hailed the publication of Made Orders for the A96 Dualling Inverness to Nairn (including Nairn Bypass) scheme as a major step forward in delivering around 31 km of new dual carriageway between Inverness and Hardmuir. The section of the A96 Dualli

More than 100 miles of new Active Travel routes, known as the Ayrshire Link, are being developed across South and East Ayrshire for the first time. 

Concerned East Ayrshire councillors have come together to call for urgent action by Transport Scotland and the Scottish and UK Governments to prioritise and find alternative sources of funding for vital improvements to infrastructure at Kilmarnock’s Bellfield Interchange. Investment for this b

Construction of a new active travel network that will improve links throughout Levenmouth is set to get under way in the coming weeks.

Communities are invited to view plans for completing the dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness at venues along the corridor over the coming weeks.

Construction work to transform Aurs Road between Barrhead and Newton Mearns is underway with the road now closed for 12 months until December 2024.