A ROAD leading off Edinburgh’s busiest junction will be shut for six months – to allow vital work on Borders Railway line to progress.
A section of the A6106 – the main road into Millerhill on the city’s outskirts – will be closed from where it connects to the heavily congested Sheriffhall junction to the Old Craighall Road roundabout.
The closure, expected to be enforced later this month, will allow the road to be relaid so it bends around the 35-mile line linking Edinburgh Waverley to the Borders.
The works are sure to further clog up a junction drivers have previously voted Scotland’s worst as the section, also known as Millerhill Road, will be closed until at least July to carry out the realignment.
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A 130ft-wide tunnel has already been carved beneath the City Bypass, close to Sheriffhall junction, to make way for the rail line. The major carriageway will now be transferred back to its original alignment by April at the latest.
Network Rail project director Hugh Wark said: “We have made rapid progress with the structure, which will carry the City Bypass across the railway. If all continues to go well, this should allow us to reinstate the original alignment sooner than we anticipated. Once the City Bypass is restored to its original route, we will begin the task of removing the diverted road.