Scotland Road Tours - A90 Edinburgh to Fraserburgh

Today's road tour takes us along one of Scotland's most important routes, and one of the highest standard A-roads for most of its duration, apart from at either end. The road begins in the center of Edinburgh, but we pick it up a few blocks down Queensferry Street. The road gradually improves and speeds up as we leave Edinburgh, and becomes the M90 as we cross the Queensferry Crossing. The M90 continues to Perth before turning off to the east on towards Dundee as a zippy dual carriageway. A few roundabouts slow us down around Dundee before free flowing travel continues past Forfar, Brechin, Laurencekirk, Stonehaven, and on the relatively new Aberdeen bypass. The road reduces to single carriageway as we approach Ellon, and then continues to Peterhead and finally on to Fraserburgh. In the original 1922 road numbering scheme, the A90 ran from Edinburgh to Perth, with the A85 continuing to Dundee, and the A92 following the coast on to Aberdeen and then Fraserburgh. Progress along the A90 across the Forth required a ferry crossing until in 1964 when the Forth Road Bridge was built. By 1969, the first part of the M90 was built near Inverkeithing, before reaching Kinross in 1973. In the 1990s, the A90 took over the entire Edinburgh to Fraserburgh route, with the Aberdeen Peripheral Route completed in 2019. Filmed June 2022