Highlands MSP questions if A9 dualling will ever be completed

A Scottish Conservative Highlands and Islands MSP has questioned if the dualling of the A9 will now ever be completed.

Jamie Halcro Johnston said after yesterday's Ministerial Statement: “This news will come as no surprise to anyone. Those who live in communities along the A9, or who regularly use the road, have known for some time that the promised 2025 date was going to be missed.

“But while the SNP have finally admitted this, we have no new timetable for delivery, no new estimate on costs and no apology.

“The minister wouldn’t even tell me how many years behind this project actually is, or even come clean on when she was first told the 2025 date wasn’t going to be met.

“Local communities have been kept in the dark for years on when – and even, if – this project will ever be completed.

"This latest update provides only more uncertainty."

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