The incredible £118m project that will link two huge UK roads ending traffic chaos

By Holly Kintuka, Reporter

The task includes a caller span implicit the Tay stream (Image: Getty)

This immense operation task is going to wholly alteration Scotland's transport web by connecting 2 large roads successful the country.

The Cross Tay Link Road, expected to outgo £118 million, is Perth & Kinross Council's biggest infrastructure task since the operation of Friarton Bridge astir 50 years ago. 

The A9 and the A93, which is the UK's highest road, volition beryllium connected to the municipality of Blairgowrie and the A94, northbound of Scone, each with the hopes of improving the level of congestion successful the area. 

The program consists of the operation of a six-kilometre agelong of caller carriageway to nexus the roads arsenic good arsenic a brand-new 3-span span implicit Scotland's largest river, Tay, which runs done Perth from the south-east.

Two kilometres of realigned dual carriageway volition besides beryllium built conscionable northbound of the Iveralmond Roundabout successful Perth.

The span volition span implicit River Tay (Image: Getty)

Perth & Kinross assembly purpose to person the enactment completed by outpouring 2025 with hopes that it volition trim travel times and amended postulation travel and the section transport network, specifically successful the Perth metropolis centre, making it easier to get around. 

Cross Tay Link Road is portion of a wider task called The Perth Transport Futures project, an upgrade programme aimed to amended the roadworthy web astir the city.

In 2010, a survey predicted that postulation summation would transcend the magnitude Perth could handle, and conscionable past year, a whopping 1.56 cardinal conveyance miles were travelled connected roads successful Perth & Kinross.

Access to Perth City centre volition beryllium easier (Image: Getty)

The task volition purpose to tackle the city's semipermanent proscription needs, beforehand economical maturation and code issues of congestion and contamination wrong the metropolis centre.

It besides aims to promote sustainable question options by constructing a cycling way on the span carriageway.

Perth and Kinross Council person Grant Laing said: “Active question – the elemental enactment of walking, wheeling oregon cycling – has galore benefits, including improved health, safer communities, and reduced biology impacts.” As plans for an "enhanced" progressive question way web were besides released arsenic portion of the Cross Tay Link Road

He added: “Now, with implicit 12km of caller and improved paths it volition beryllium easier than ever earlier for section radical and visitors to get retired and bask our area.”