A90 fencing promised —but it's not enough
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• Truck drivers are being forced to make "suicide bids" when joining or crossing the A90 dual carriageway between Perth and Dundee because of the Scottish Office's refusal to update one of Scotland's most dangerous roads.
In the past 10 years 41 car and HGV drivers have been killed there—and the toll has got to stop, says Peter Mulheron of Perth and Kinross Council.
"Drivers are having to stop on the central reservation in order to make right-hand turns or cross over to get to feeder roads," he says. "Sometimes parts of their vehicles are in oncoming lanes. The Scottish Office promised five flyovers would be built on the route; so far one has been completed."
Mulheron fears that this year an average of one person will be killed on the A90 every month. Almost 15,000 HGVs use the road daily.
Chief Inspector Eric Drummond, of Tayside Police, says most of these are artics moving to and from farms near the road and travelling towards Aberdeen. "We need flyovers and crash barriers on the central reservation immediately," he says.
Mulheron says since the start of his campaign on 18 January the Scottish Office has promised to spend £3m on central-reservation safety fencing by the end of this financial year. But he stresses this is not enough, and plans to continue his campaign.
A spokesman for the Scottish Office says it is "very well aware of local concerns regarding the A90".