I used to live in an area where the southbound lanes were owned by one city and the northbound lanes were the other. During the winter, getting to work going south was easy. Getting home was another story. Drove me insane.
I mean, that's how jurisdiction works. I bet they're on different schedules and next week the other side will be mowed and look better. But it's a funny picture.
Stuff like this is really common in the States, too. In my state, counties take care of their own roads (outside of interstate highways), and it can be really obvious where the county line is, especially if you're traveling between counties with vastly different socio-economic demographics.
Especially in places where cities/counties have adjacent jurisdictions. It's one of the subtle-until-pointed-out signs of the pervasive US urban decay caused by building out more (especially road) infrastructure than an authority can afford to maintain.
Read a bunch of Strong Towns materials and you become very not-fun in the passenger seat of a car.
Knowing the Scots it was probably paid for by Westminster and mown by the neighbouring English council., but they'll swear blind it was done by the SNP personally.
Pretty much par for the course. Anything bad happens it's Westminster's fault. Anything good and it's thanks to the SNP.