Balfour Beatty has been awarded the long awaited £184.7M contract to dual the section of the A9 between Tomatin and Moy marking a milestone for Transport Scotland’s £3.7bn upgrade of the road.
Transport Scotland has revealed key design elements and possible construction methods for the long-awaited debris flow shelter on the A83 Rest and Thankful to protect the road from rockfall.
Works to temporarily prop and renew the two Woodside Viaducts supporting the M8 in Glasgow have risen in cost by £71M and have been extended by three years from initial estimates.
Transport Scotland has started market engagement for the £155M design and build contract for the Tay Crossing to Ballinluig section of its £3.7bn A9 dualling upgrade.
Transport Scotland has handed out a £1.6M ground investigations contract for its planned £32M A83 Old Military Road upgrade to Soil Engineering Geoservices.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has reiterated its commitment to funding several transport interventions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in its long-awaited response to Sir Peter Hendy’s Union Connectivity Review.
Transport Scotland has revealed the shortlist of contractors for the long-awaited A9 Dualling: Tomatin to Moy project.
More than £11M has been spent by Transport Scotland clearing landslides that have impacted travel on the A83 Rest and Be Thankful since 2014, NCE has discovered through a Freedom of Information request.
The recently completed flood defence scheme in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen, has helped protect the town against Storm Babet which has been causing chaos for Scotland’s infrastructure over the past week.
Argyll and Bute in Scotland has suffered from severe landslides closing many roads and leaving the council fearful that large boulders, some over 70t, are “unstable”.
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