Transport Scotland

The Scottish Government is providing £10 million to support the rapid deployment of bus priority infrastructure by local authorities.

The Forth Road Bridge will close to traffic next month to allow two under-deck maintenance gantries on the suspended span to be removed and lowered by crane onto a barge below.

The 50th anniversary of the Kingston Bridge is being celebrated today with a bid to give the iconic structure listed as a structure of historic and architectural interest.

Contractors are to begin pre-start preparations on transport projects including the Queensferry Crossing, Forth Road Bridge and improvements to the M8, M73 and M74 as part of first phase of easing restrictions, Transport Scotland has announced.

An £8 million redevelopment of Aberdeen station is to get under way once the current coronavirus restrictions make it safe to do so, ScotRail has announced.

The Scottish Government is to fully fund a new infrastructure programme for pop-up walking and cycling routes or temporary improvements to existing routes to better enable physical distancing

Work on a new regional transport integration hub at Motherwell station is set to begin this year following the appointment of contractors Balfour Beatty.

The preferred bidders have been named for two improved road maintenance contracts in the south of Scotland worth more than £1.4 billion in total. Bear Scotland Ltd will take over the South East Unit and Amey OW Ltd will operate the South West unit. The new contracts will commence on 16th Augus

The Scottish Government is to pay a further £65 million to the company behind the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) to prevent a potentially lengthy and expensive court case.

A study is underway into the feasibility of replacing Scotland’s second busiest ferry service with a fixed link bridge or tunnel. The Highland Council, HITRANS and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) are joint funding the study at the Corran Narrows in Lochaber.

Transport Scotland has hailed the “significant progress” made in constructing the A77 Maybole Bypass since Michael Matheson, cabinet secretary for transport, infrastructure and connectivity, marked the start of work in May last year.

A new strategy which will guide Scotland’s transport plans for the next twenty years has been laid before the Scottish Parliament. During a statement to MSPs yesterday, cabinet secretary for transport, infrastructure and connectivity, Michael Matheson, said that the National Transport Strategy

More than twenty options to improve connectivity in the South West of Scotland are to go through to a national assessment of future transport interventions for further consideration with the publication of a new regional transport study. The reopening of the rail link between Stranraer and Dumfries

Negotiations surrounding claims connected to the construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) are nearing conclusion following a lengthy period of negotiation, contractors said today.

Transport Scotland has announced the intention to award two contracts to undertake ground investigations as part of the A96 Dualling Hardmuir to Fochabers scheme.