Councillor keeps up pressure on Broxden revamp

A city councillor is continuing to put pressure on Scotland’s transport agency to outline how soon work it is hoped will bust traffic build-ups at Perth’s busy Broxden roundabout could be completed.

Depute Provost Willie Wilson welcomed news earlier this year scoping work was being carried out by the Scottish Government so a recommendation to add new signals and lanes to the junction to ease queues can be acted on.

But the Perth City South representative reckons Transport Scotland ought to reveal when construction work could actually start and finish too and he has written to the agency again in the hope it will provide some timescales.

Speaking about correspondence he recently received from Scotland’s transport secretary Humza Yousaf MSP, Councillor Wilson told the PA: “The letter goes some way to answering my queries [about this project], but does not really provide any further detailed information.

“We are already aware that the survey work is to be carried out albeit a year late and that the main themes that are to be looked at are the possibility of signalisation of the roundabout [and] additional lanes for traffic going west and north.

“What is sadly lacking from the letter in its entirely is any indication of timescale. I have written back to Transport Scotland asking them to be quite clear about when this survey work would be completed and what the likely timescales are of the consequent improvements.”