Scotland Road Tours - A92 Aberdeen to Dunfermline

Today's road tour takes us along the A92, a largely historic major road which has been mostly superceded at the regional level by faster new routes. The road as it is today begins at Blackdog, north of Aberdeen, and drops into the city region and around the western side as a primarily urban dual carriageway. The road speeds up as we leave Aberdeen and reach Stonehaven, where the A92 gives way to the A90 and falls back to single carriageway through Inverbervie, on to Montrose and Arbroath. The road is dualled again on the way to Dundee, and serves the southeastern side of the city and over the Tay Bridge into Fife. The A92 is still an important link for transport between Dundee and Fife, as well as for locations such as Cupar, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, and Cowdenbeath, before reaching the M90 near Dunfermline. Historically, the A92 was the primary route northwards from Inverkeithing all the way to Fraserburgh, in the original 1922 numbering scheme, and remained so for over 70 years. Originally the road was cut at Dundee with a ferry crossing required until the Tay Bridge was built in 1966. In Aberdeen, the A92 ran along King Street, Union Street, and Holburn Street until the 1950s, when the southern end was rerouted to the King George VI Bridge, now B9077. Further rerouting occurred in the 1980s with development on the northern side of the River Don and the completion of the half ring road through Bridge of Don. At the same time, the new dual carriageway section from Glenrothes to the M90 was constructed, lifting the southern terminus from Inverkeithing to Dunfermline and the old route becoming the A921. In 1996, the A90 usurped the A92 route north of Stonehaven, with the Aberdeen section being returned to the A92 when the newer A90 western bypass was completed in 2019. Filmed June 2022