MOTORISTS face a decade of disruption after ministers announced the £3 billion of work to make Scotland's most dangerous road safer will start two years earlier than expected.

Despite its new starting date of 2015/16, the project to upgrade the A9 to a dual carriageway from Perth to Inverness is not expected to finish any earlier, but supporters of the scheme said it will revolutionise the backbone of Scotland's road network once completed.

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