New Grid Gets Dundee Waterfront Project Underway

Dundee’s Waterfront Project continues to take shape as the city council announces the new grid patter of streets will be completed on Wednesday 10 October.

The development will make space for the final configuration of on/off ramps for the Tay Road Bridge and will cut through a site immediately east of Tayside House.

The city council have issued the following advice: "Drivers heading for the city centre from the eastbound South Marketgait will take a left turn onto the new road, before turning right on the northern boulevard and picking up South Marketgait at Trades Lane.


"People heading east (towards Broughty Ferry) from the Tay Road Bridge will now continue straight ahead onto the new section of road, only making a right turn if they want to get to City Quay."

The new grid is part of the city’s Waterfront Project; a thirty year scheme involving almost a billion of pounds of investment.

The Project is intended to boost tourism and business in the region. At its heart is the V&A at Dundee gallery, which is due to open in 2015.

Ken Guild, leader of Dundee City Council said: "From the start of this project we knew that 2012 would be a key year in which the people of the city would start to see what the finished road layout would look like.

"Now that it is beginning to take shape and it is easier to envisage what the Waterfront will look like I am sure that Dundonians and visitors alike will continue to back this once in a generation opportunity."

(IT)