A82 Summit
Hamza Yousaf, Scottish Transport Minister, has announced he is holding a summit in June regarding the A82 and is looking for input from communities and road users. Anyone who's ever travelled this road, particularly at the Loch Lomond section, will know how tricky is can be to navigate, especially towing or in a larger motorhome, so I've emailed the Club in the hope that they can send a representative on behalf of its members. Fingers crossed they say yes, it would be brilliant to have the views of us tourers heard.
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Well done on mailing the club, WH. Let's hope we get some representation.
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Not massively different, Brue! No more lights at Pulpit Rock and the replacement road there is a nice reprieve but the rest of the road is in a dire condition. Not just narrow but full of potholes too. We have a LHD motorhome and sitting in the passenger seat is quite frankly terrifing!
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Why oh Why!! do we elect then pay these politicians the salary’s we do?
This man does, or should, already know what needs to be done here!!
It seems to me this will turn out to be an exercise to produce the evidence required in order to justify carrying out his already intended action, which will probably be nothing!!.
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I've had a reply from the Club, and I have to admit, I'm quite pleased with the response. See below.
'Many thanks for your recent email about the problems associated with the A82, particularly with regard to road safety and road design. I can fully appreciate how these can occur on such a long and busy tourist route, and I know the issues around parking places, particularly for motorhomes, have become a particular problem in the National Park in recent years.
I’ll certainly find out what I can about Mr Yousaf’s proposed summit. The Club is a member of the Scottish Caravan & Camping Forum, so I’m sure my colleagues on that group would welcome a chance to contribute. We’re also members of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, where I’m a Council member, so I’ll share the information with them as well. From a road safety angle we have close links with the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP) which grades routes according to various standards taking into account road casualty data and road design, and highlights routes requiring improvement. EuroRAP has recently published its 2016 report for Great Britain and this is showing the A82 north of Tarbet as a red risk road (meaning medium/high risk). If you’re interested to see the results I’ve linked the website below.
http://www.eurorap.org/
Thank you for drawing this initiative by the Scottish Government to our attention, and we’ll certainly try to be involved if we can.'1 -
It's the little things, Brue 😀 Obviously I'm not expecting miracles, I honestly don't see much changing on that road in my lifetime (and I'm 35!) but it's nice to know there's support out there. Maybe one day, there'll be tunnels, like the Italian lakes!
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