THE A9 is to become dual carriageway between Perth and Inverness in a £3 billion project; Aberdeen get a brand new £653 million bypass; central Scotland’s motor ways are getting an upgrade worth £500 million; Perth is set for a £35 million ring road improvement; and the new Forth crossing is nearly complete at a cost of £1.4 billion along with associated motorway improvements.
Travel further west and the major road serving Argyll is being left behind. We are fobbed off with the cheapest option to ‘mitigate’ (whatever that means) the landslide risk with a few fences at the Rest worth a total of £10 million over four years.
The latest incident involving Mother Nature at the Rest is no surprise, because it is a wild and potentially dangerous place, and the road infrastructure is no longer up to our climate challenges.