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As part of the Scottish Government’s commitment in the £315 Million Inverness and Highland City Region Deal, Transport Scotland is progressing plans for a single carriageway road connecting Inshes to Smithton in Inverness.

This scheme is on the A9 in Caithness, north of Helmsdale and south of Dunbeath.

Transport Scotland will be carrying out this essential work over a number of years in order to ensure the bridges continued service in the Highlands.

This project involves the construction of 2.1 kilometres of 6 metre-wide single carriageway, with 1 metre hard strips and a minimum soft verge width of 1.65 metres. At the northern end of the scheme, a 280 metre-long 10 metre-wide climbing lane has been provided.

The Kessock Bridge opened to traffic in 1982. It is a cable stayed bridge and carries the A9 dual carriageway trunk road across the Beauly Firth at Inverness.

This project is now complete. It involved the construction of a new 1.06km northbound overtaking lane, with associated drainage, surfacing and safety fencing improvements.

Contractors replaced the old twin pipe culvert structure with a new single span bridge, designed to modern standards. The works included localised road widening.

Delivering significant journey time improvements and greater connectivity for both passenger and freight services operating on the Aberdeen to Inverness rail corridor.

The Borders Railway has re-established passenger railway services, for the first time since 1969, from Edinburgh through Midlothian to Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders

Dundee City Council is substantially refurbishing Dundee station passenger facilities at a cost of £38 million as part of its Waterside Development. A key driver in the station development is the high profile opening of the adjacent Victoria and Albert Museum, scheduled for 2018. The project is on target for summer 2018 completion.