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Workforce peaks at over 1,200 with construction across full scheme Infrastructure Secretary Keith Brown today visited the Queensferry Crossing construction site to meet with workers and view progress on the project.

Appraisal will inform details of next contract.

Angus Carmichael has been appointed as Scottish Road Works Commissioner on an interim basis.

Seven Modern Apprentices begin careers on projectMinister for Transport and Islands Derek MacKay today (Thursday 6 August) welcomed seven new modern apprentices to the longest roads construction project currently underway in the UK, the AWPR/B-T, as he officially opened the project's Contact and Education Space.

One of the most familiar sights on some of Scotland’s busiest trunk roads is celebrating its tenth birthday with figures showing that the Trunk Road Incident Support Service (TRISS) has attended around 15,000 incidents in the last year.

Information Event Ahead of Major Roads Works at Shawhead Junction, A725 and A8/M8Scottish Roads Partnership (SRP), the contractor delivering the £500m M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project, is extending an open invitation to communities and businesses of North Lanarkshire to learn about the major construction works currently underway along the A8/M8 from Baillieston to Newhouse, including Shawhead Junction.

Double celebration as HM marks milestone as monarch & re-opens railwayThe Borders Railway will be officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen on the day that she becomes Britain's longest serving monarch.

Next stage in fair, open and transparent procurement

From this Friday, 31 July, traffic management will be in place on the A93 at Milltimber and the A944 at Kingsford.

VIDEO - 2,000 Tonne Rail Bridge Construction on Track Video footage showing the construction of the first major structure as part of the £500m M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project has been released by Transport Scotland.