Transerv’s dangerous wooden roadside barriers may provoke civil action
In an earlier news item, ‘Transerv’s wooden roadside barriers threaten Argyll’s road safety‘, we drew attention to the road maintenance contractor’s reversion to wooden roadside barriers abandoned...
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Ardchattan Community Council confront Bonawe Quarry users and operator...
Ardchatton Community Council serves an area on the north shore of Loch Etive, reached by a narrow and winding single-track road between Bonawe Quarry and the main A82 road from Glasgow through Argyll...
View ArticleThe Gaelic road sign debate
Highland Council’s Gaelic Committee wants to increase the Gaelic signage on the A82, A9 and A96 and has asked Transport Minister, Stewart Stevenson to put bilingual signs on these three roads.Mr...
View ArticleMcGrigor’s driving ban raises issues
Highlands & Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor, has been banned from driving for 4 months after being caught doing 42 mph coming out of a 30mph zone near Lochearnhead. His lawyer had argued on his behalf...
View ArticleSuccess for Don’t Let This Happen To You young drivers’ campaign
The West of Scotland Road Safety Forum (WoSRSF) launched its ‘Don’t Let This Happen To You’ campaign in the summer, to follow its ‘Hero to Zero’ campaign in 2007.This has been notably successful,...
View ArticleCan Argyll & Bute Council officers not walk and talk at the same time?
Lyndon Baines Johnston, the straight-talking American Vice President who succeeded the assassinated John F Kennedy, had a fruitier description of a similar inability to perform (very) basic...
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BikeSafeBute Marks its Second Year with a Leaflet Competition
For the second year running, the Isle of Bute has lead the way in a community road safety initiative for young people. The event is unique and a great example of genuine community care of the younger...
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Do we want successful businesses in Argyll or do we not?
The sign-gobblers have been at it again. One has to worry about their professional dietary needs.An innocent small business on the shores of Loch Fyne, below and largely hidden from the road, joyfully...
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Arbroath school review’s Westway proposal: cost, safety, capacity, amenity
As an example for all those in Argyll and the rest of Scotland who are increasingly concerned at the competence and integrity with which local authorities have been conducting ‘school estate reviews’ –...
View ArticleArbroath schools reviews: Angus Council roads department email to education...
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Transport Minister receives road safety petition from Dalmally
Argyll and Bute’s MSP, Michael Russell, has presented a petition to Transport Minister, Keith Brown, asking for the improvement of road safety through the village of Dalmally.The petition asked...
View ArticleScotland said to lack systems to maintain safe road markings
The National Road Safety Markings Association claims in a new report that the situation with markings on Scotland’s roads is an crisis of public safety due to falling levels of maintenance.The National...
View ArticleCanadian tourist in accident at Cairnbaan junction with A816 – flags up...
Yesterday morning, 27th May, there was a road traffic accident at the junction between the A816 and the B8025 at Cairnbaan.A 63 year-old male, a visitor from Canada, was in collision with a local...
View ArticlePolice Scotland Lochgilphead: police reports for week to 14 January 2014
Theft of Bicycle Between 7am on Thursday 2nd January and 10am on Saturday 4th January a black adults mountain bike with white writing on the frame and tape on the saddle, was stolen from outside 7...
View ArticleBlue Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship already benefiting young people in...
And there’s a competition to name this specific rally – on 5th and 6th July 2014. This Friday, 28th February, at Campbeltown Grammar School, starting at 2pm in the Assembly Hall, there’s a half day...
View Article13th September cycling flashpoint for northern A82
An issue which is changing the gears of communities between Ballachulish and Inverness is a ‘collision’ between two major cycling events that will see traffic delays at the very least on the A82...
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