848 Roadworks Now Active in Perth and Kinross; Council Considers Listing Roads That Are Open Instead
Including 351 road closures and 201 sets of portable traffic lights. One Blairgowrie man says the shorter list would fit on a Post-it.
Cones, the official flower of Perth and Kinross. Photo: Richard Webb, “Road closed sign, Danskine - geograph.org.uk - 5084984”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Perth and Kinross now has 848 active roadworks, including 351 road closures and 201 sets of portable traffic lights, according to figures compiled by a roadworks tracking site — and motorists have proposed a radical solution.
“Just publish the list of roads that are open,” said a Blairgowrie driver. “It’d be shorter. You could fit it on a Post-it. I’d stick it on the dashboard.”
The figure means there is roughly one roadwork for every 180 residents of Perth and Kinross. Statisticians say that if every resident adopted a set of works, they could visit it at weekends and bring it a flask.
Roadworks are, of course, essential for maintaining utilities, resurfacing roads and keeping everything working. Motorists accept this. They would simply like the works to be spread out a bit, “maybe not all on the way to Tesco”.
The council’s online roadworks page remains the best source of information. Several readers say they now visit it more often than Facebook.
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I’ll make the Post-it. It’ll have the A9 on it and a question mark.
— Ronnie G., Blairgowrie, 30 October 2026 -
One roadwork for every 180 residents. I’d like to formally adopt the one outside my house. I’ve already named it.
— Sharon E., Scone, 30 October 2026 -
I’d still rather they fixed the potholes. Even if it means 849.
— Kenny W., Perth, 30 October 2026
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