Another roads issue..........

This is the works recently completed at the Ladywell bridge over the A822 at Dunkeld. The road has been closed for 6 months to permit this work to take place, allowing the wind turbines for Griffin windfarm to pass underneath the railway line.

The good news is the work is done and the road is opened again.

The bad news is that the over-sized loads are now starting. They will take 90 minutes to travel the length of the A822 to the site. Local residents where prepared to put up with one load a day, but not the two that has been proposed. This will potentially cause massive disruption for the next 6 months, potentially really hurting not only the businesses along the A822, but the wider Highland Perthshire economy.

Thankfully, we should know very quickly if there is a big issue here or if people can find a way of working around this. If there is a problem, I shall certainly be throwing my weight behind the local community in order to get things resolved.

We do need renewable energy, but not at any price. Six months of disruption is not acceptable. This operation of getting turbines to the site has to be done sensitively. The local population and holiday makers will not tolerate anything else.