Scottish Government announced that it will invest approximately £5m in additional road safety measures for the A9 between now and 2025.

As well as the three safety schemes which are already scheduled for delivery, an additional £600,000 of works and campaigns will also be delivered by April 2023, focussed on the A9 between Perth and Inverness.

This will include enhanced road markings, illuminated road studs and improvements to highlight single carriageways and the transitions at dualled sections. Variable message signs will also be deployed along the route.

For 2023/24 and 2024/25, the scope and extent of these works will be expanded across the route, coupled with targeted marketing campaigns, which when combined over the next three years will have an estimated value of £5 million.

Jenny Gilruth, Minister for Transport,  said:

“My sympathies are with everyone who has lost a loved one on Scotland’s roads and specifically on the A9 in recent months. One life lost on Scotland’s roads is one too many and as a Government it is imperative we respond the devastating increase in fatalities on the A9 in recent months."