Stone responds to Alex Neil’s comments on A9 dualling timeline

Responding to comments made by former SNP infrastructure and capital investment secretary, Alex Neil, who stated that it is “utter rubbish” for the SNP government to claim that the initial 2025 target for dualling the A9 was “aspirational,” Scottish Liberal Democrat MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Jamie Stone, said:  

“Alex Neil played a central role in plans to dual the A9, so his comments are a scathing indictment of the limp and desperate excuses of his former colleagues.  

“Despite a steady drumbeat of road deaths across the Highlands in this year alone, ministers have singularly failed to act with any urgency.  

"Dualling the A9 is a matter of essential public safety. It needs to be completed in full and fast.  

“If this road led to the First Minister’s Glasgow constituency or his home in Dundee, I doubt it would have taken so long.”