Transport Scotland - Diversion of A75 traffic onto local roads during roadworks at night: EIR release
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
All information related to the assessment of the effect on the safety and amenity of local communities during the night from the diversion of trunk road traffic off the A75 and in particular to the A747, the B7085, the A714 and the B7005 through Auchenmalg, Port William, Whauphill and Bladnoch. I have directed this to you rather than Amey as the power to close the A75 is made under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 signed on behalf of Scottish Ministers. I also request all correspondence to and replies from Dumfries and Galloway Council held by Transport Scotland related to diversion of A75 traffic onto the roads noted above.
On 4 November 2024 you clarified you were happy to restrict my timescale to the period of the tendering/contract preparation and period of the current SW trunk road contract held by Amey. As the current contract for the south west trunk road network commenced 16 August 2020, the date range for this request is 16 August 2020 until the date of the request.
Response
Please see Annexes A (1) to C (4), to this response for details of information related to the assessment of the effect on the safety and amenity of local communities during the night from the diversion of trunk road traffic off the A75 and in particular to the A747, the B7085, the A714 and the B7005 through Auchenmalg, Port William, Whauphill and Bladnoch and all correspondence to and replies from Dumfries and Galloway Council held by Transport Scotland or through its operating company, Amey, related to diversion of A75 traffic onto the roads noted above.
An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.
Transport Scotland's operating companies have an established network of pre-defined Standard Incident Diversion Routes (SIDRs) which are implemented as needs arise and provide the most suitable signed diversion routes available. These routes have been agreed with Police Scotland, the Trunk Road Operating Companies and the relevant Local Authorities as the most suitable routes available to cope with the volume and classes of vehicles that would normally use the trunk road network. These routes are fully signed and are checked during any closure to ensure the appropriate .signage is visible to the travelling public.
Transport Scotland's operating companies will always accommodate any emergency service vehicle operating under blue light conditions to ensure they are safely be escorted through works with consideration for the health and safety of the workforce.
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