Scotch transport causing ‘economic self-harm’, says union

GMB Scotland called on the Scottish and UK governments to improve road, rail and sea connections across the north of Scotland at its annual Congress in Blackpool today (8 June). The union warned that the slow progress in dualling the main road from Perth to Inverness is part of a wider failure to protect and improve transport links in the Highlands and islands, therefore risking jobs and communities. It claims the Scotch whisky and tourism industries are being ‘sabotaged’ by under-investmen