WITH dwindling budgets and an increasingly wet Argyll climate to contend with, the people looking after our local authority and trunk road networks have an unenviable task.
But there is surely a stretch of the A83, just on the Inveraray side of the current works and north of Dunderave, that is in more urgent need of attention than the current resurfacing location.
Here, spring-breaking potholes are a regular feature on the Glasgow-bound carriageway in particular. BEAR Scotland seems, though, to have this on its radar – and it looks as if drainage will be the first thing to tackle before any surface improvements. To resurface before addressing drainage would be to throw good money after bad.