Good and bad news on Aviemore junction front
Contractors are set to return to carry out upgrade works for a third separate time at a busy Aviemore junction, it has emerged.
There have once again been long tailbacks in the village after four-way temporary traffic lights were installed once more at the junction of Dalfaber Drive and Grampian Road and nearby Grampian View.
Highland Council has said that the signalling will be removed later this week but revealed the contractors will still have to return to the site in mid-March to complete the junction improvements.
There has been exasperation that there was little work activity at the junction last week but the traffic lights returned on Monday morning, co-inciding with the start of the half-term holidays for some part of Scotland including for Aberdeenshire and Glasgow.
There were reports of nearly half-hour delays and northbound traffic queuing back into the centre of the village as was the case last summer.
A Highland Council spokesman has now told the Strathy: “Work continues to improve the junction of Grampian Road and Dalfaber Drive with traffic management due to be removed later this week.
"The contractor will return in the middle of March to complete the resurfacing work but it is proposed that any traffic management required will be confined to evenings.
"The council thanks the public for their patience during this period.”
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The latest works at the junction re-started in the second week of January and were scheduled to take four weeks and be finished by now but are still on-going despite the lack of wintry weather.
The initial completion date for the junction improvements was midsummer, last year.
