A9 - M90 - A93 Comments

The most annoying thing about this junction is the lack of left turn lanes. More and more often these days you have to queue for 10 mins to turn left from the M90 spur to A9 south. That's cheap and easy, why hasn't it been done?

For grade separation, remove the A93 from the junction and it's a simple directional-T. I'd like the A9 to be the through route to remove the TOTSO, but it doesn't really matter.

Divert the A93 down the B9112 and build a junction where it already passes underneath the M90 spur.

Too easy?

The local council has granted planning permission to erect a 6m high sculpture on this roundabout, as part of Perth's 800th anniversary celebrations. The sculpture will stand on an 8m plinth, and will depict a grouse taking flight - no doubt scared by all the traffic! I wonder how this will affect any proposed improvements?

I am a native Glaswegian who now lives in Tayside - therefore I've been immunized against Broxden Junction by years on Scotland's road to hell - the M8. Yes - it's a game of Russian Roulette sometimes at rush hour trying to get onto the southbound A9 from Perth but it's easy enough once you have the knack. But look at the almost perfect alignment between the A9 Northbound and the M90 - why not sink the road down (like the Gyle interchange on the A720 Edinburgh City Bypass), and then you can freeflow from the M90 to A9, and have a flyover or something for the A9 south to Stirling? Maybe that was the original intention???

Just last month wife was driving round in middle lane when car was hit on rear offside by Dundee white van driver trying to exit from right hand lane to outside lane M90 just as predicted.

I think the criticisms here are somewhat overstated. I moved up north 3 years ago and some of the critics of this junction should take the time out to check out the A45 Tollbar end junction when they're next down south if they want to see a broken junction. The English are far and away best at bodging roads, driving in Scotland is a dream by comparison!

Any cash spent on doing anything more than putting in more dedicated left turn filters here would be better spent grade separating some of the junctions on the A9 between here and M9 @ Dunblane. That road is crazy during the daytime or evening rush hour now with dark nights. It's a dual carriageway that should probably have been a motorway in the first place which has tens of busy right hand turns. Lethal!

One of the main problems at this roundabout is that many southbound drivers don't realise they have to make a right turn in order to stay on the A9. If you are, like me, heading south and want to join the southbound M90 the signs on the approach indicate that you can use both lanes. If you use the right hand lane, be prepared for drivers in the left hand lane driving in front of you, on the roundabout, as you try to exit and join the right hand lane of the southbound M90.

I have almost sent several drivers sideways down the M90 because of this.

There are plans to grade separate this along with the Keir and Inveralmond roundabouts, but they are "long term" plans which may see the light of day sometime within the next thirty years.

Actually, as you approach the roundabout from the North there already are signs warning lorry drivers that there is a severe risk of tipping over. Personally I drive around this roundabout regularly and have never seen any problem with it - then again I'm always passing on Friday and Sunday evenings, so maybe at other times it gets congested.

There have been big signs warning HGVs of the adverse camber at Broxden roundabout for at least 10 years... Perhaps someone should ask the haulage industry why their drivers keep tipping their wagons and hitting railway bridges!