Transport Scotland

A group of Scotland’s foremost transport and planning experts has been selected to assess bids for groundbreaking community-led active travels schemes across the country. Minister for Transport and the Islands, Humza Yousaf, welcomed the announcement and said he was confident the panel would selec

Video footage showing the construction of the largest single span bridge being built as part of the £500 million M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project has been released by Transport Scotland. The time lapse footage reveals nine pairs of 3m high steel beams, approximately 77m in length and weighi

A96 looking west at Forres A joint venture between Mott MacDonald and Sweco has been awarded a contract worth up to £50 million on the A96 Dualling project by Transport Scotland.

Morrison Construction has teamed up with the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) to develop an engineering project for pupils inspired by the Queensferry Crossing. The Go Forth! challenge, created by SCDI’s Young Engineers and Science Clubs (YESC) Scotland, will see over 300 schoo

Construction companies are being invited to bid for the A737 Dalry Bypass with the publication of a notification in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) by Transport Scotland. The notice, which outlines construction costs in the range of £34 million to £38m, invites prospective bidder

Jo Blewett Jo Blewett has been appointed as the newest member of Construction Scotland Innovation Centre’s Governance Board.

Forth Road Bridge A Scottish Parliament inquiry has concluded that the structural defects that led to the closure of the Forth Road Bridge last December could not have been foreseen.

The cost of building the new Queensferry Crossing has fallen by £1 billion and the bridge is on target to open to traffic by the end of the year, MSPs have been told. In 2009, the new crossing had been expected to cost up to £2.34bn, however, the overall figure was later revised to be around £1.3

The A90/A937 south junction Angus councillors have given the green light to a multi-million pound Montrose business park after rejecting a Scottish Government planning condition regarding a Laurencekirk transport junction.

A major programme of enhanced maintenance works costing around £140,000 is due to start next Monday on the A82 route between Tarbet and Inverarnan. The work, which will include a programme of tree and drainage clearance and the removal of loose rocks, meets a pledge that transport minister Derek Ma

Keith Brown Multi-million funding to take forward the design and construction of a new grade-separated junction at Laurencekirk on the A90 in Aberdeenshire has been announced by the Scottish Government.

An additional £6.6 million investment in the A83, including just over £4m for landslide mitigation measures at the Rest and Be Thankful, has been announced by the Scottish Government. The commitment from Transport Scotland is in addition to the £3m already committed to the on-going programme for

The River Dee at Balmoral An enforcement notice has been issued to contractors working on the Aberdeen bypass after freshwater pearl mussels, salmon and other fish were put at risk from pollution.

Jim Eadie MSP A Scottish Parliament committee has agreed to undertake an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the closure of the Forth Road Bridge.

The Scottish Government has come in for criticism for awarding the contract to supply the steel for the Queensferry Crossing to a Chinese firm.