{"id":2928,"date":"2025-04-05T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:23:03","slug":"150m-bridge-over-river-tay-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/150m-bridge-over-river-tay-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3150m bridge over River Tay opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A \u00a3150m road crossing over the River Tay has officially opened after years of planning and construction.<\/p>\n<p>The Cross Tay Link Road runs from west of the A9 and joins with the A93 and A94 north of Scone.<\/p>\n<p>A report previously prepared for Perth and Kinross Council said it would pave the way for thousands of new jobs and relieve traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>The project centres around Destiny Bridge \u2013 a three-span structure crossing the River Tay &#8211; and the New Kingsway &#8211; a 6km (3.7 miles) stretch of new carriageway. It also includes 2km (1.2 miles) of realigned dual carriageway on the A9 just north of Inveralmond roundabout.&#8217; (Fromm bbc.co.uk)<\/p>\n<p><strong>BBC REPORT SOURCE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2592evv5po\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2592evv5po<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ymaTSZqzD1w?si=bauhUavL-PVRmn93\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HX3vGkhdxQo?si=9GXPbA1GLsaUOVsE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>STV REPORT: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/north\/perths-transformative-destiny-bridge-and-the-new-kingsway-open-to-public\">https:\/\/news.stv.tv\/north\/perths-transformative-destiny-bridge-and-the-new-kingsway-open-to-public<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzwQfXwkU40?si=hOrtFJk4IKGlmV2D\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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The Cross Tay Link Road runs from west of the A9 and joins with the A93 and A94 north of Scone. A report previously prepared for Perth and Kinross Council said it would pave the way for thousands of new jobs and relieve traffic congestion. The project centres around Destiny Bridge \u2013 a three-span structure crossing the River Tay &#8211; and the New Kingsway &#8211; a 6km (3.7 miles) stretch of new carriageway.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}