Transport chiefs may have come up with a solution to congestion problems at a notorious Perthshire junction.
For years, residents have complained about the narrow end of Queen Street at Coupar Angus, a main artery to Dundee.
They say their homes vibrate when tractors and other large vehicles try to negotiate the busy corner, often having to mount the pavement to pass oncoming traffic.
Members of action group Beware Queen Street A923 say problems have persisted for 20 years.
Earlier this summer, Perth and Kinross Council said that a planned traffic management trial at the street was postponed because resources were diverted to managing floods across the region.
Now the local authority has unveiled plans which they hope will end years of frustration and prevent future accidents.
Roads network manager Charles Haggart discussed the proposal at a meeting of the local community council.
The plan involves building out part of the pavement – to make crossing safer and to control traffic – and install a priority give-way system.
The build-out would be about 65ft from the traffic lights.
Mr Haggart said: “It’s fairly straightforward. It’s not a complicated arrangement at all and we have already secured funding for this one, so its is good to go as soon as we get the blessing from the community.
“I’ve tried to react to the concerns I’ve been hearing from local residents.”
He said the plan was to create a pavement extension on the steeple side of the road – where the pavement is “horrendously narrow” – but said it could be switched to the other side of the street if locals preferred.
Community council chairwoman Wendy McCombes said: “Bearing in mind there seems to be no magic solution to the problems at Queen Street, we will have to find a compromise.”
Mr Haggart has been asked to revise the plan and return to the community with a finalised version.
Some residents argue that the only sure-fire solution is to build a new relief road.
Four years ago, a cyclist was hit by a lorry at the junction and more recently a bus clipped and damaged part of the church at the corner.
