The managing agent of the £395M Aberdeen western peripheral route has rubbished a design which promotes an alternative to the proposed bypass.
A former Grampian Regional Council employee who lives on the route of the proposed bypass has written to MSPs, MPs and councillors claiming the route selected in December would be ‘less effective’ than an alternative promoted in the 1990s.
Douglas Stewart says that building the route closer to the city – the Pitfodels route, north of the River Dee – would take more traffic out of the city and be less environmentally damaging. But Derick Murray, managing agent for the bypass, said: ‘This project would not be taken forward without a conviction that it would provide an effective solution.’ It would take an estimated 43,000 vehicles off unsuitable city and rural roads.