Blairgowrie Granted Two-Day ‘Intermission’ Between Road Closures; Residents Use It to Drive Up and Down Weeping

By Euan Kidd, Waterways & Grievances Reporter

BLAIRGOWRIE — Blairgowrie residents have been granted a brief, precious intermission between road closures this week, after Dunkeld Road reopened from its works on 19 October and Perth Street and Perth Road prepared to close for resurfacing from 22 October.

“It’s like a ceasefire,” said one Rattray resident, who drove the full length of Perth Street four times on Monday “just because I could.” “You don’t know how much you love a road until it’s been shut. Then they give it back to you for two days and you just want to hold it.”

The Perth Street closure, running in two phases over around two weeks, will send buses on a diversion via Beeches Road and Emma Street, two streets which residents say “have never been so popular and frankly didn’t ask for it.”

Local businesses have made the most of the window. A Wellmeadow café offered a “Two-Day Special”, a Perth Street hairdresser ran a “Get Here While You Can” promotion, and one garage simply put up a sign reading “OPEN (ROAD)”.

Bus passengers have been advised that during phase two, Service 63 will be unable to reach the community hospital, and that anyone heading there should get off at Beeches Road and “enjoy the walk, which is mostly uphill and entirely character-building.”

The council said it regretted any inconvenience, a phrase residents say has now been used in Blairgowrie so often that it is “basically the town motto.” At press time, a petition was circulating to have the next intermission extended to three days, “to allow for a Thursday.”

The real story: PKC: A93 Perth Street and Perth Road, Blairgowrie closed from 22 Oct 2026 for ~2 weeks, buses diverted via Beeches Road and Emma Street; Dunkeld Road, Blairgowrie closed 12–19 Oct (PKC road closures list)