Tighter Scotland travel restrictions considered as lockdown car use rise confirmed

Car travel was down by 45 per cent in the week to Sunday on a year ago compared to being 50 per cent down in the previous week, Transport Scotland statistics showed.

The rise came despite all but essential travel being banned as part of the latest lockdown across mainland Scotland, with virtually no school run traffic as most children switched to home learning.

That follows The Scotsman revealing figures from traffic data firm TomTom which showed congestion in Glasgow this week rising to the level of two years ago – and it has now surpassed at certain times of day.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said of possible additional travel restrictions yesterday: “We are thinking about how and if we need to tighten those up.”