The council is being urged to lobby the Scottish Government for transport improvements in the region.
Two councillors want to see “fairness” for south west Scotland after a new report didn’t mention any projects for upgrading routes in Dumfries and Galloway.
Members will consider the motion from Dumfries and Galloway Socialist councillors Willie Scobie and Tommy Sloan at this week’s full meeting.
Transport Scotland recently published the first phase of their second Strategic Transport Projects Review which looks at possible transport investment in Scotland over the next 20 years.
In their motion, the councillors say that “nowhere” are there details of any capital investment in Dumfries and Galloway.
As a result they want the local authority “to make immediate representation to the Scottish Government”, seeking a review of the first phase and demanding “fairness” for the region.
They also want the council to push the Scottish Government to “fully cooperate” with the UK Government on their recently published Union’s Connectivity Infrastructure Strategic Review which includes proposals for a link between Scotland and Northern Ireland and potential upgrades to the A75.
Councillors Scobie and Sloan say Scotland is “the only country of the four nations in the UK that has not made any proposal on how this new/additional money could be spent in their regions to improve their roads and connectivity between UK nations”.
They believe what is proposed in the review “might bring benefit to the major trunk roads that connect Scotland to Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK”.
There is also disquiet from council officials to the first phase of STRP2.
And in it, officials say they “strongly disagree” with the fact that previously considered ideas such upgrading the A709 and improving diversion routes on the A75 and A77 appear to have been taken off the table.
