Talk:A9 dualling project

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A fact from A9 dualling project appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the upgrading of the A9 in Scotland between Perth and Inverness is far from being complete despite its 2025 deadline?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 23:47, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the upgrades of the A9 in Scotland between Perth and Inverness is far from being complete despite the 2025 deadline?

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-67771630

ALT1: ... that Transport Scotland promised to dual the A9 from Perth to Inverness by 2025, but only 11 miles (18 km) have been done by 2023, leaving 77 miles (123 km) to be dualled? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64568406
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Created by JuniperChill (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

JuniperChill (talk) 10:10, 24 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Comment I meant to say 'Moved to mainspace', not created as this was a draft before I moved it onto mainspace yesterday JuniperChill (talk) 10:15, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
New enough, well written, quite interesting. no copy vio Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 01:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK removed from main page

Just noting that this article was removed from the main page for various reasons after 10 hours, as was reported to WP:ERRORS: [1]. If this gets to GA (which its currently awaiting review), then it might be worth another try. JuniperChill (talk) 21:54, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]