A major project to improve travel across the north east of Scotland, this programme of works will see the full 86-mile route between Inverness and Aberdeen upgraded to form a continuous expressway. Work will mostly take place once the A9 Dualling programme has concluded.
Work will be split into four component parts for the purpose of design, contract letting and construction.
The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.
The M4 into London was one of the UK's earliest and most ambitious motorway projects. It was bold, pioneering... and almost instantly regretted.
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
It crosses cattle grids and untamed moorland, it climbs 1-in-4 hills and plummets through hairpin bends, it runs single-track through woodland and historic villages. It's rugged and beautiful. Is it really the A39?
