Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity has received a £750 donation to support its focus on making the hospital experience better for children, young people, and their families when they are at their lowest, most worried point. Transport Scotland’s trunk road operating company, BEAR Scotland, which manages and maintains trunk roads near the Capital including the A720 … Continued
Overnight carriageway closure Tuesday 2 April 2024 The northbound carriageway of the M9 will be closed at Junction 1 Newbridge on the night of Tuesday 2 April, to allow Transport Scotland’s operating company BEAR Scotland to install a temporary safety barrier. The barrier is required to ensure the safety of road users during the next … Continued
Monday 22-Tuesday 30 April, 7pm-7am Overnight road closure with amnesties (Monday to Friday) The busy A87 tourist route on Skye will be given an upgrade ahead of the summer season. A section of the road between the Drumuie junction and the Borve junction, north of Portree, will be resurfaced and road markings … Continued
Three overnight carriageway closures commencing 8 April 2024 BEAR Scotland, Transport Scotland’s operating company, is set to resurface 1.1 kilometres of the M80 Junction 9 southbound on-slip, as well as a small section of the M80 southbound carriageway adjacent to the slip road. The work will take place over three nights between the hours of … Continued
Five-week programme commences 15 April 2024 Work to be completed over 16 phases A five-week programme of overnight maintenance on the A720 Edinburgh City Bypass is scheduled to begin on Monday 15 April. The work will be carried out in 16 phases, with overnight closures on a different section of the bypass in each phase. … Continued
Current phase of A83 drainage improvements between View Point Car Park and Cobbler Bridge are nearing completion. Hillside inspection has identified a new area of movement on the hillside that is being monitored closely. Traffic management in place to facilitate drainage works and hillside monitoring. Traffic management will remain until hillside movement is better understood … Continued
Lane closure for two weeks commencing 18 March 2024 Transport Scotland’s operating company BEAR Scotland is to install a new variable message sign to provide enhanced information for drivers on the approach to the bridge that carries the A1 trunk road over the River Tyne near East Linton. The sign will be installed near Haddington, … Continued
Work to improve the footway on the A985 between the junction to Charlestown and the junction to Waggon Road has been postponed until later in the year, while a question over land ownership is resolved. Temporary traffic lights that were in place since the start of the works in February have been removed and the … Continued
Hard shoulder closure for six weeks, commencing 1 April 2024 Trunk road operating company BEAR Scotland is to replace over 1,000 metres of boundary fence on the eastbound M8 between Junctions 3 and 2, in an investment by Transport Scotland worth £87,000. The works will begin on Monday 1 April and are expected to continue … Continued
Works to begin on Monday 18 March. Daytime lane closure with convoy On behalf of Transport Scotland, BEAR Scotland will be carrying out essential surfacing improvements on the A9 at Inverbrora, immediately south of Brora, with works set to get underway on Monday 18 of March. The project will see a new surface laid on … Continued
Works continuing until Sunday 14 April BEAR Scotland, Transport Scotland’s operating company, is currently undertaking essential road improvement works on a 1140 metre stretch of the A9 dual carriageway south of Munlochy, just north of Kessock Bridge in Inverness. The project involves carriageway upgrades including drainage improvements, resurfacing and refreshing road markings, … Continued
Overnight lane closures for 13 Weeks from Monday 1 April 2024 Overnight slip road closures at Abbotsview, Oaktree and Gladsmuir Junctions Transport Scotland’s operating company BEAR Scotland is to carry out drainage improvement works on the northbound carriageway of the A1 in East Lothian, beginning on the night of Monday 1 April. Lane one of … Continued
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