Concerning the repairs allegedly scheduled for the Nevis Bank roundabout area(Lochaber Times, June 7), I very much doubt if there is enough room for two lanes of trafic heading north past the Nevis Bank Hotel; you have the hotel and various other buildings on one side of the road and a river on the other.
The actual bridge (that I believe is now a listed structure, which apparently means there is not a lot, if anything, that can be done structurally with it) was built around 80 years ago, when vehicles were not nearly the size they are now and the volume of trafic was much lighter. From what I’ve seen, a lot of the problem is caused by vehicles travelling south having to stop and give way to big vehicles such as articulated lorries manoeuvring onto the bridge on their way north, so my suggestion would be to do away with one or both of the pedestrian pavements on the bridge, and either divert pedestrians over the old bridge on the upstream side of the road bridge, or else build a new footbridge for them on the downstream side of it.
Davie Kerr, Ferry Reach, Onich