The A96 goes straight through the Highland town causing congestion and pollution that the campaign aims to tackle with a bypass.
Draft petitions committee report warns that history could repeat itself identifying funding as one of many major problems
The cost of upgrading a six mile section of the A9 is now expected to cost £111m more than originally estimated.
MSPs lambast the latest delay to the Tomatin to Moy section.
A call to divert cash from A9 dualling has been slammed as “simply unacceptable”.
Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes also put pen to paper with more sections of the road to be developed in 12 months than were completed since 2007.
John Swinney says ‘I was criticised in 2007 for wanting to divert money from the Edinburgh tram project to the A9… parliament stopped me’.
Fears for the project emerged yesterday when the finance secretary warned ‘we cannot afford all of our capital commitments’.
Finance secretary Shona Robison warns ‘we cannot afford all of our capital commitments’
He says work must accelerate ‘otherwise, we will continue to see more lives being needlessly lost’.