Lane Closure on Dunkeld Road Leaves Drivers Choosing Between the Queue and the Drive-Thru Queue
Works by McDonald's run until Friday. Locals ask whether one queue counts towards the other.
A Perth lane, briefly unavailable. Photo: OathOn, “Night-time road resurfacing operation during Chatham Waterfront Bus Station improvement works showing Tarmac vehicles, workers, and road closure on Globe Lane, Chatham, Kent, England”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
A lane closure on the A912 Dunkeld Road near McDonald’s in Perth continues until Friday, leaving drivers with a classic Perth dilemma: sit in the roadworks queue, or sit in the drive-thru queue, which is at least next to chips.
“It’s the same queue,” said a delivery driver. “One leads to a burger. The other leads to Inveralmond. I’ve chosen the burger three days running.”
A man in a Vauxhall Astra is understood to have joined both queues at once and is now technically in a loop.
Works should be finished by the end of Friday 30 October, in time for Halloween traffic and many small ghosts in back seats asking “are we there yet?”.
The real story: Proposed road works (Perth & Kinross Council)
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