Amey South West Trunk RoadsAmey, on behalf of Transport Scotland, is undertaking essential maintenance on the A82 between Lomondgate and Stoneymollan Roundabouts, from Thursday, 26th March until Friday, 17th April 2026.
This work will require continuous 24-hour offside lane closures in both directions, with a temporary barrier in place.
Overnight full closures will also be required on selected nights throughout the programme for both northbound and southbound carriageways.
All traffic management will be removed over the Easter Weekend, returning from the night of Monday 6th April.
Signed diversion routes will be in place during overnight closures. Northbound traffic will be directed via Lomondgate Roundabout, A813 Stirling Road and A811 Lomond Road to Stoneymollan Roundabout, with southbound traffic following this route in reverse.
Full details of this project can be found below 
Essential maintenance or long overdue safety work?
It’s a valid question to ask and folks might care to reflect on what is being done and why. Critical long overdue safety work might be a better description.
Take or example the accident record of this effectively straight bit of dual carraigeway. Why have there been so many accidents? Why so many deaths? What has caused that? Or what about when an accident does occur, why does a whole carriageway all to often get blocked causing huge traffic volumes to be diverted through villages such as Bonhill, Jamestown, Balloch and environs. The emergency services, fire and ambulance call it the death run challenge,
Cross over points are inserted in motorways and dual carriageways so that when an accident happens traffic can be filtered down to a single lane and the other carriageway can be operated as a two way, thereby keeping the road open. So why no crossovers before, or more accurately why were original cross overs safety barriered over.
Or essential maintenance. Could that be worn out surfacing where the road no longer provided sufficient skid resistance. Last year the road had to be closed for work where sections of carriageway had surfacing replaced.
It’s a good question essential maintenance; long overdue safety work or a combination of both. Transport Scotland and the Scottish Government know but no one’s actually telling. And why, finally now?