Transport Scotland has agreed a further investigation into the issues surrounding the A78 junction at Inverkip following a public meeting.

A two-hour meeting was held at Inverkip Marina, chaired by Duncan McNeil MSP, and involved Transport Scotland, Amey, Inverkip Community Council and other elected representatives.

Transport Scotland will now carry out a ‘conflict survey’ of the Inverkip junction on the A78 using video technology to study the extent of the traffic problems.

Road bosses will also report back on issues surrounding the traffic lights at Ravenscraig School.

They also confirmed that they are looking at the findings of the recent road safety and accident analysis at the Bankfoot roundabout with a view to implementing the recommendations to improve safety and have agreed to keep all parties updated on this.

Transport Scotland had carried out a survey of the A78 at Inverkip last summer but the low cost solutions they had proposed were not considered to be sufficient to deal with the high accident rate there by the community.

Mr McNeil had called for last night’s meeting as a result. He said: “I am pleased that Transport Scotland has agreed to take a closer look at the Inverkip junction and report back on the issues surrounding the lights at Ravenscraig and Bankfoot roundabout.

“While progress was made, we haven’t resolved any of these issues yet and we will have to wait to see the eventual outcome of these discussions.

“This was a positive step and my only regret is that this level of public engagement wasn’t agreed to earlier.”

Councillor Gerry Dorrian said: “I thank Duncan McNeil for organising this meeting, everyone who attended agreed this was worthwhile and there were frank discussion on all of the issues.

“I hope progress can be made on the issues taking into account the strong views among the Inverkip community.”