{"id":371312,"date":"2025-08-25T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371312\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:12:10","slug":"lives-torn-apart-by-fatal-crashes-on-the-a9-scotlands-longest-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371312\/","title":{"rendered":"Lives torn apart by fatal crashes on the A9, Scotland&#8217;s longest road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop said she understood there were frustrations around the dualling of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Any loss of a life on the A9, or indeed other roads in Scotland, is a tragedy in and of itself,&#8221; she said<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Road safety is something I take extremely seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the government was not just waiting for the dulling to take place, and had invested \u00a35m in interim, shorter-term road safety issues on the A9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The dualling in and of itself will help on road safety and that&#8217;s one of the reasons that we&#8217;ve embarked on it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hyslop said circumstances beyond the Scottish government&#8217;s control had affected the project, including Brexit &#8211; the UK&#8217;s withdrawal from the European Union &#8211; and the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she added: &#8220;We have a plan, we&#8217;re meeting our milestones.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop said she understood there were frustrations around the dualling of the road. &#8220;Any loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-371312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-scotland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115087222010534374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}