Travel Disruption Continues As Temperatures Drop

Submitted by edg on Wed, 8 Dec '10 7.28am

Travel disruption is continuing across Scotland. Edinburgh was around -13C last night and the Met Office is forecasting a high of -6C during the day. Obviously, the problem on roads is ice, not just snow with traffic crawling along.

The big one this morning is that the M8 is still closed outside Edinburgh until later this morning.

Here's the Traffic Scotland advisory:

"The Westbound M8 is currently closed between J1 (Hermiston Gate) and J4 (East Whitburn) due to adverse weather. The Westbound onslip at J2 and J3 are also closed."

The M8 Junction 5 is also closed ("All on and off slip roads remain closed in both directions").

With this kind of cold trains will also be affected.

Keep checking those weather updates.