A campaign was launched yesterday to persuade the Scottish Government to reconsider its decision not to fund a bypass to ease congestion in Inverness.
The bypass – linking the A9 Inverness-Perth road at Inshes to the A82 Fort William-Inverness road at Torvean – was excluded from the government’s strategic transport projects review, which was announced in December 2008.
TWO leading political figures have increased pressure on transport minister Stewart Stevenson to break the political and financial deadlock holding up completion of the Inverness by-pass.
City MP Danny Alexander is urging the minister to rethink his decision to treat the project – linking the A9, the A96 and the A82 – as two separate schemes. Such a move would ultimately pave the way for Scottish Government funding for the entire project.
Campaigners for a road bypass in Inverness are stepping up the pressure on the Scottish Government to fund the scheme.
Local MP Danny Alexander is distributing 25,000 leaflets across the city urging the Transport Minister to reconsider a decision to leave the scheme out of his Strategic Transport Projects Review.
A PUBLIC forum aimed at developing a united front to step up pressure for the much-needed Inverness bypass is to be held next month.
The meeting, at Inverness Town House on 15th February, is being organised by the city’s Lib-Dem MP Danny Alexander who has sent out about 1700 invitations to a broad cross-section of individuals, politicians and organisations.
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AN action group set up to push forward plans for Inverness’s much needed bypass has met just once in nine months and has yet to make a single recommendation, The Inverness Courier can reveal.
Transport minister Stewart Stevenson established the group in April after the Scottish Government failed to include the project in its Strategic Transport Projects Review.
INVERNESS MP Danny Alexander has described a Holyrood meeting with transport minister Stewart Stevenson to discuss the long-awaited Inverness bypass as “very disappointing”.
Mr Alexander was joined by colleagues John Farquhar Munro, MSP for Ross, Skye and Inverness, and Inverness West councillors Alasdair Christie and Alex Graham for yesterday’s hour-long meeting.
TRANSPORT minister Stewart Stevenson came to Inverness yesterday to officially announce a new group examining the long-awaited Inverness bypass, but left without delivering any firm promises or commitments.
TRANSPORT minister Stewart Stevenson yesterday stood by major changes to the official appraisal documents which led to the case for the long-awaited Inverness bypass being downgraded from strongly positive to negative.
MINISTERS are coming under increasing pressure to explain why a decision to reject the long-awaited Inverness bypass was apparently made prior to a full assessment of the project being completed.
Comments added to an early appraisal of the scheme suggest it had already been decided not to include it in the government’s transport programme, despite initial evidence indicating the project scored highly against set criteria.
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