More than £1m spent improving roads in West Fife

MORE than £1 million was spent on improving the road surfaces in South and West Fife last year.

Fife Council have now completed 14 carriageway schemes across the area, which includes Rosyth, Inverkeithing, Dalgety Bay, Aberdour, Oakley, Kincardine and Valleyfield.

That included improving the B9037 road through Torryburn, at a cost of £261,775; and a further £175,201 on the same road between Newmills and Valleyfield Avenue; as well as spending £140,539 on Broomknowe Drive, Windyhill Avenue and Kilduthie Place in Kincardine.

Carriageway improvements at

Preston Crescent in Inverkeithing cost £115,189; at Low Causeway in Culross it came to £110,547; and £75,276 was spent on High Street in Aberdour, while there were smaller schemes at Sir George Bruce Road and James Hog Crescent in Oakley; Ferry Road and Main Street in North Queensferry; and the Craigencat Road west of Kelty.

Councillors were told that three schemes from 2021-22 delayed due to contractor availability, a drainage issue or hold-ups in the planning process had now been completed.

They were the road improvements on the B914 from Steelend to Dunnygask House, Kirk Street and Tanhouse

Brae in Culross and Carnock Road in Oakley.

A further £244,587 was spent in 2021-22 on improving the footways and pavements at Hawthorn Bank in Carnock, McGrigor Road in Rosyth, Deas Road in Inverkeithing and Sir George Bruce Road in Oakley.

And just one out of the three road safety and traffic management schemes – a speed limit reduction at Main Street in Low Valleyfield, costing £4,844 – was completed on time.

Changes to the pedestrian crossing outside the Co-op on Rosyth’s Castlandhill Road, which will cost £25,000, were held up as contractors were not available.

The work is now scheduled for November.

The planned £60,000 crossing improvements on Main Street near Carnock Primary School are back at the design stage following input from the parent council.