Farrans to build new £59m Paisley bridge

Development planning work is underway now Renfrewshire Council has acquired £38.7m from the UK Authorities’s Levelling Up Fund, with the council committing an extra £18.8m to the scheme and Transport Scotland £1.5m.

Work will see a brand new highway bridge throughout Paisley Harbour, a 1.7km gateway route alongside the White Cart river and a community of roads, biking and strolling hyperlinks from the city centre prepare station and bus interchange to AMIDS, Glasgow Airport and Inchinnan.

Patrick Murray, Scotland’s Regional Director for Farrans, mentioned: “AMIDS South is a venture which can ship main financial and connectivity advantages for the city of Paisley and wider Renfrewshire, and we’re wanting ahead to getting work began on website.

“Our skilled workforce has not too long ago accomplished the highly-successful Govan to Partick Bridge in Glasgow and we now have an extended historical past of tasks within the transportation sector in Scotland together with Edinburgh Trams to Newhaven in three way partnership as SFN, M80 Stepps to Haggs and the A737 Dalry Bypass in Ayrshire.

“We’re working by means of the ultimate phases of preparation with our shopper Renfrewshire Council and shall be partaking on the bottom with native stakeholders shortly.”