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Councillor Robin Currie has written to Transport Minister Jenny Gilruth following the publication of both the National Transport Strategy Delivery Plan and a Scottish Government spending review which highlighted a drop in spend on roads of over £30m in the next few years.
Frequent closures over the last couple of years at the Rest and be Thankful have caused an increasing level of disruption to the Citylink Oban service via Inveraray which has been taken off the road for winter because of it
Highlands and Islands MSP called for a parliamentary debate on the next steps for the A83 Rest and Be Thankful, and the plans to deliver a permanent, long-term solution to the ongoing debacle
All traffic diverted back onto A83 under traffic light control. Teams remain onsite monitoring conditions
The local diversion at the Rest and Be Thankful to be used from 8pm.
The works, between 7pm-7am, will address a 300m section of the route, said BEAR Scotland.
New lights will help, but one lane of the A83 through Glen Croe looks like to remain shut for most of 2021.
But only when weather and hillside conditions allow, says BEAR Scotland.
‘The purpose is to provide resilience and divert traffic during the construction of the permanent solution,’ says council executive director.
‘The two-day trial of running the A83 24 hours a day will allow us to identify any issues associated with operating the route at all hours for road users’
