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In 2022, despite the installation of average speed cameras, 17 people died on the A9, of whom 13 were on the stretch between Perth and Inverness, where much of the route is single carriageway. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] This has meant that the number of fatalities rose to its highest level in 20 years; between 2019 and 2021, only one death was reported per ...
About 77 miles (124km) have still to be improved as part of the £3bn project, which will extend from Inverness to Perth. Funding of A9 dualling project a real concern, say MSPs Completion date ...
For most of its length between Perth and Inverness, the route was identical to the A9 prior to the commencement of the major upgrading works in the 1970s. [ 5 ] Thomas Telford 's Dunkeld Bridge crossing the River Tay The Kessock Bridge , completed in 1982, which crosses the Moray Firth and shortened the route north out of Inverness by 14 miles ...
As of July 2023, 335 people had been killed on the Perth-to-Inverness stretch of the road since 1979 (an average of 7.6 deaths per year), 59 of which occurred between 2011 and 2022 (an average of 5.4 deaths per year). The "A9 Dual Action Group" was established to bring attention to the statistics
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 ...
Along with the A9 and the A82 it is one of the three major north–south trunk roads connecting the Central Belt to northern destinations. The A90 is not continuous: there is a gap between Dalmeny and Perth, but the M90 connects those two places.
It has staggered junctions with the A9. From the A949 the A9 runs (1) generally north to Thurso and (2) generally south to Tain, Inverness, Perth, Stirling and Falkirk. From the A9, just north of Tain and the Dornoch Firth, the A949 runs (1) west to the A836 at Bonar Bridge and (2) east to Dornoch. The junctions are about 1 mile (2 km) apart.
The link road will connect to this section of the A9, north of the Inveralmond Roundabout 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 ]