Meeting of the Parliament 17 March 2015
No—we have already heard from Dave Thompson.
Business groups have raised concerns about the implications of average-speed cameras for journey times. I do not imagine that they can simply be dismissed as somehow being reckless. There is a considerable amount of work to do, particularly to analyse the period when the road is most heavily in use—over the summer months, as Murdo Fraser said. That will be illuminating.
I congratulate Mike MacKenzie on securing the debate and thank him for allowing us to express our views. As a regular user of the A9 who has constituents who are also regular users of this north-south artery, I remind the Parliament and the minister that the road does not stop at Inverness. An important chunk of it between Inverness and the north coast often appears to get overlooked in debates about safety on and the dualling of the A9.
I will conclude by joining the universal chorus of support for dualling the road as a means of removing its reputation as the most dangerous road in the country. As the next photo call at the side of the A9 comes up, I also note that, after at least eight years, we still have not seen the countless billions that have been provided by the UK Government, and by the Liberal Democrats’ involvement in the UK Government, being deployed on the dualling of the A9.
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