The Transport minister has been invited to a public meeting to discuss the campaign for a flyover at a notorious Mearns junction.
Keith Brown has been invited to Friday’s open meeting in Hillside Hall along with local MSPs, but it’s not known whether he will turn up.
If he does he is likely to face a barrage of questions from the public as to why calls for a flyover at Laurencekirk continue to fall on deaf ears.
Jill Fotheringham, who has led the campaign for a flyover at the junction, will be speaking about her own experiences at the meeting.
She told The Courier: “I don’t think for a second that the transport minister will come to the meeting, but I’m sure the people of the North East would love to see him there.
“We all have so much we would like to say to him.”
Montrose mum Jill is behind the campaign, having pushed for improved safety at the junction where the A937 Montrose road meets the dual carriageway.
The meeting comes on the back of a report from the Road Safety Foundation which revealed the A937 is the most dangerous road in Scotland.
The report also showed the majority of accidents on the route happen at the junction with the A90.
Tired of continually producing wreaths, florist Jill began the campaign for action in 2004 following the death of a local man at the junction.
She added: “I will be talking about how I got involved, the nine years of campaigning, the petitions and the constant negativity from Transport Scotland.
“I’ll also let people know where we are now in terms of the campaign and what we hope will happen in the future.
“We also want to take the views of the public and everyone is welcome.”
Transport Scotland have failed to commit to any spending, despite the tiny stretch of the A90 accounting for around one in 12 fatalities on the 170-mile route. The North East transport partnership, Nestrans, also backs the campaign.
Last year, Mr Brown lauded the injection of £100,000 as part of a wider commitment to improving the dual carriageway.
However, campaigners were unimpressed by the move and said they would have been better pouring concrete into the foundations for a flyover.
A Facebook pageset up by Jill to campaign for a flyover has also gathered thousands of members since being established last year.
People have used the page to share their experiences of the junction that carries around 18,000 traffic movements daily.