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I was going up the A9 yesterday. I had heard on the news about the 2 hour delays due to roadworks at Dunkeld. Latest was that the works were suspended for Sunday. Yay!
Instead, I got an hours delay due to a road accident.
The A9 is single lane just past Dunkeld. Not single each direction. Single with traffic lights.
"The works will be paused from the week of December 18 until early January but then resume until late February."
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/4802372/a9-dunkeld-roadworks-resume/
My suggestion for anyone heading north from Stirling while works are on is to go via Crief and Sma Glen which brings you back to the A9 at Dunkeld a few yards from the works. Hopefully through in one phase from there. I don't think there is a huge time penalty compared to a normal A9. The Sma Glen was my preferred route before the Perth bypass opened.
It won't work going south. Cutting off onto the old A9 here
https://maps.app.goo.gl/QjYYRm3jqBpNn84v6
then rejoining at Birnam should work going south.
Finally - do any locals know if this bit of road is two way outside working hours? So travelling early or late would avoid the 2 hour waits?
Is the southbound Blairgowrie turn off open again, it's been closed for ages due to a landslide?
Blairgowrie Rd closed? No idea. Not a road I use normally. Anyone?
I mean the turn off at the junction you linked above IRC (signposted Blairgowrie).
The old A9 running under Craig a Barns. is closed.
Yep, that turn off was closed when I went past a couple of weeks ago
It's going to cause chaos no matter how long they're putting it off for.
You could do Ballinluig - Aberfeldy - Griffin Forest - Sma Glen - Crieff - Greenloaning in either direction to avoid really big queues.. But I suspect when the world is stopped for a couple of hours on the A9 there will be queues on there too. Normally empty so that you can make progress at a reasonable pace.
Why do we put main utilities down the middle of main A roads, rather than alongside?
The current pedestrian bridge replacement works public "safety" is also hilarious. A huge floodlit area so that cyclists and pedestrians can cross A9. But no crossing and no marked path in lieu of a pavement. So last weekend there were pedestrians running between traffic and the generator/light things on the verge was forcing them to step into the road to get past!
Went through there twice last week and the delay was only about ten minutes.
Yup,it's all about time of day,went through in 10 mins yesterday (lunchtime).
The Dunkeld sneak around is still closed 😉
That article is a month old. Went through twice on Saturday and minimal delay during the day and none at midnight
Like aingleapeedstu.
I cut through it 4 times today and it was only a ten min delay max. Probably 5.
Went through last Friday and it was an hour for 9 miles.
I can confirm there was no delay at 06:00 this morning.
Hoping for similar for the return journey on Friday!
So this is like any other roadworks on the A9? The delay correlates to how busy the road is and when you travel? Who’d a thunk it!
So this is like any other roadworks on the A9?
It is rare they shut a lane down without it being on dual carriageway, providing a temporary road or doing the work overnight.
Nope. I've been driving the A9 on and off for over 40 years and never experienced 2 hour delays like these roadworks have caused at busy times.
Not in my experience Matt - have done many journeys with a few sets of lights on the single lane sections. Usually short though, in terms of the length of road affected - presumably this one has a long stretch affected.
Came up on Friday evening, back from Edinburgh. Hit Perth at about 4pm, maybe a bit later, that was bad enough, but then hit the Dunkeld queue just at the foot of the Bankfoot dual carriageway. Aaaargh. To be honest on Friday, given car was reading about -8 passing Kingussie, I wouldn't haven fancied lesser travelled roads.
Stopped in Pitlochry for an hour to get a walk and stretch legs, back on the A9 at 7pm, took ages to pull back into stream of traffic as there must have been pent-up convoys heading north.
When are they restarting the A9 works?
I'll be going through around say 8am next friday - if i go the Perth way.
But i could come round by Crieff and then onto Dunkeld. Reckon that'd be the best option?
Updates or good advice welcome for that time of day (going north). We travel back on the Sunday probably in that area about 1pm - but we can cut off at Ballinluig to get to Aberfeldy then Crieff