(15 Nov 2015, 6:13 pm)passenger_10 wrote  I presume you mean Scremerston? 

There have been delays for most of last week, though its only been 5 or 10 minutes stuck in a queue at the traffic lights south of Beal. It's not been helping that the traffic lights have failed at least twice resulting in a police officer having to stand at each end and direct traffic...

The bit of the A1 around Scremerston has only just be resurfaced in the last few weeks, the current work appears to be between Beal and Belford, and there isn't really an alternative route.