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In July 2013, the Scottish Government announced a plan to install average speed cameras on the A9 between Perth and Inverness. This has been undertaken with an aim to reduce accidents and fatalities on the road, and was the second permanent average speed camera scheme in Scotland. [10]
In June 2024, Transport Scotland figures reported that along single carriageways on the A9 there were 199 injuries and 15 deaths compared to 114 injuries and 7 deaths on dual carriageways, highlighting a double fatality rate for the undualed sections of the road.
The creation and development of the A90 road has to be understood in terms of the development of the economy of the North-East of Scotland, which had resulted in an increase in traffic along the route between Perth and Aberdeen. [2]
The A9 is a major road in Scotland running from the Falkirk council area in central Scotland to Scrabster Harbour, Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. At 273 miles (439 km), it is the longest road in Scotland and the fifth-longest A-road in the United Kingdom.
Transport Scotland quoted the scheme at £745 million in 2012 prices. [33] The contracts for associated preparatory works were announced on the Public Contracts Scotland website in 2016. [34] The contract award was announced on 11 June 2014 with Connect Roads, advised by Pinsent Masons, [35] [36] named as the preferred bidder.
A traffic camera is a video camera which observes vehicular traffic on a road. Typically, traffic cameras are put along major roads such as highways, freeways, expressways and arterial roads, and are connected by optical fibers buried alongside or under the road, with electricity provided either by mains power in urban areas, by solar panels or other alternative power sources which provide ...
The northern section is used by commuters to Edinburgh, as well as long-distance traffic. [10] In August 2020 part of the road near Fala collapsed after heavy rain. [11] It reopened the following month. [12] [13] Part of the A68 is a trunk road from the boundary with Midlothian to the border at Carter Bar, managed by BEAR Scotland for Transport ...
The Cross Tay Link Road is a road-construction project in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It will link the A93 and A94 roads, near Scone, to the A9 north of the Inveralmond Roundabout, at Perth, via a new stretch of road, 3.7 miles (6.0 km) long. [1] It will involve a three-span bridge over Scotland's longest river, the Tay, [2] hence the project ...