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With just a year to go until the first trains are due to take to the tracks, communities on the route of the new Borders Railway are being asked to help organise a launch party worthy of this monumental project.

Road users and communities across the north-east are being given an opportunity to look at the plans for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route / Balmedie-Tipperty scheme through a two-week programme of public exhibitions.

The installation of average speed cameras on the A9 is encouraging safer driving in advance of the cameras being switched on.

The £745m Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie Tipperty project is well on the road to completion today after Transport Minister, Keith Brown announced that ‘Connect Roads’ has been selected as the preferred bidder to deliver this critical project.

Another six million pounds is to be invested on the A83 in Argyll and Bute to mitigate the effects of landslides and improve the performance of the route.

Scotland’s fashion designers of the future are being given the opportunity of a lifetime to help mark the opening of the Borders Railway.

A £15million funding package will see a fleet of electric cars, new cycling infrastructure and a role out of the Smarter Choices, Smarter Places Programme introduced throughout Scotland over the next two years.

With thousands of extra journeys expected during the Commonwealth Games, the Traffic Scotland service is aiming to boost its followers with a new ‘Refer a Friend’ Twitter campaign.

Transport Scotland has today awarded a contract, worth close to a million pounds, to Raeburn Drilling & Geotechnical Ltd.

The tendering process for the new fourth generation road maintenance contracts for the North East and South East of Scotland has concluded with BEAR Scotland continuing with the maintenance of trunk roads in the NE and Amey proposed to take over in the SE.