The results of the traffic study at the Kirkliston cross roads has now been published. You can see it here.

Securing the study was one of our very first acts as newly elected local councillors. It came after increasing concern over the congestion at the cross roads and inactivity from the SNP led Council administration.

Whilst the main purpose of the study was Kirkliston, the monitoring was opened to a wider area to get a broader picture of where vehicles were coming from and going to.

Thousands of vehicles movements through the village cross roads were recorded as part of the study. The results confirmed that the vast majority of traffic comes from the local area although the work did identify significant through traffic from West Lothian in particular.

The north / south traffic results have been looked at in detail and shows the overall split.

The report includes a number of recommendations / options.

• Using housing developer money to further assess how the junction through put can be made more efficient.
• A possible reconfiguration of the junction to to either east/west or north/south (as shown in the following images). This would require more feasibility work and impact analysis.

You can read the whole report here.

There is obviously a lot of data and information here to digest. Both of us spoke as local councillors when the report came to the Transport Committee. It was agreed that a further report would come forward in six months providing more information on the follow up actions.