I’m glad to read in The Oban Times that Councillor Alastair Redman from Islay recognises it is we drivers who are paying the price for Argyll and Bute Council’s failure to maintain our roads properly.
I have paid out quite considerably over the past few months for car repairs which I (and my expert garage man) know to have been caused or exacerbated by the shocking state of Mull’s roads. I am currently seeking compensation from the council for all this expenditure but I am not holding my breath.
I’m pleased the council is now proposing to spend £15 million over the next two years (and I’ve been told by Councillor Hugh MacGregor that work is due to start on a particularly notorious stretch here on Monday April 23 but I’ll believe it when I see it) but I wonder why nothing’s been done before.