BBC Documentary - Life and Death on the A9

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nl3sl

 

March 6th 9PM BBC1

 

Could be interesting, set to record !!

Aye that road is full of A holes and Sunday drivers!!! 

 

Can't wait for it to be dueled!

Aye that road is full of A holes and Sunday drivers!!! 

 

Can't wait for it to be dueled!

 

Probably going to be dead before it happens at this rate !!!

yeah, a great road as well, could be made so much better (and safer)

The Average Speed Cameras are going in now Dunblane to Inverness.

 

& the HGV's are going to be allowed a rise in the National Speed limit

on single carriageway sections as a trial.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25236767

 

They need to get the Supermarket HGV loads back on the Rail Line Perth to Inverness,

it worked well when it was being done.

The Scottish Government just need to help fund it again.

& proper Fast turn around Depots & Rail Links  in Perth, Inverness, maybe even at Stirling.

Aye that road is full of A holes and Sunday drivers!!! 

 

Can't wait for it to be dueled!

WHat's going to challenge it though, the Great Glen Cyclepath?  

The Average Speed Cameras are going in now Dunblane to Inverness.

 

& the HGV's are going to be allowed a rise in the National Speed limit

on single carriageway sections as a trial.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25236767

 

They need to get the Supermarket HGV loads back on the Rail Line Perth to Inverness,

it worked well when it was being done.

The Scottish Government just need to help fund it again.

& proper Fast turn around Depots & Rail Links  in Perth, Inverness, maybe even at Stirling.

why should the goverment help fund these rail terminals for the the huge profit making supermarkets. thats not even taking into account of the money they hide in offshore banks. all the other points you are spot on. for anyone going to be driving on the A9, the police are now hiding at the exit for the Ralia toilet/rest area behind the tree's. the last 3 times i have been on the A9 they have been there.

Because the Supermarkets funded it before.

& Infrastructure is for the Government to provide and fund for all of us.

They can Tax the Business and do, and they take enough Duties & Taxes off the Vehicle Users.

Private and Commercial.

 

& this Government are Funding EV Charging points every 50 miles.

& the Organisation the Scottish Government set up to organise Transport spend plenty in the Central Belt.

They are funding Trams in Edinburgh, & Trainlines to the Borders with Maximum Fare Prices announced only yesterday.

Roads East to West and South get all the money spending they ever need.

 

http://transportscotland.gov.uk

 

About time they spent north of Perth.

Westminster never did and Holyrood have taken long enough.

To busy buying votes South of Perth for the past 15 years.

That is all parties not just the current one in charge.

you do raise a very good argument as to why funding should be given. My stance on this whole goverment funding carry on is, there should be no funding for these type of projects. if they do fund a project it should be 100% goverment owend and makes profit. if it's private sector, then its should be upto them to fund it 100%, not line there pockets with public money. If all the money that the uk and scottish goverment has wasted funding projects that should have never been funded, we would have has an A9 years ago.

The cost of the Cycleway at the high point of the A9 is a scandal.

The Company that came and built it, the design and surface,

and the materials they brought in.

Someplaces totally unsuitable for push bikes, if you are not going to have constant punctures.

Very hand for Quads and the likes below Drumochter to Ralia.

 

The money for the Coastal Paths/Cycleways in Scotland is unreal.

I met a Private Contractor doing the Survey along the Moray Firth Coast a week ago.

(Someone in charge that was Born to Quango, actually a National Body Employee but also a Self Employed Contractor & Commissioned to do the preparations for the planning and costings.)

They were clueless to the area really, and the money they will spend will just amaze everyone.

 

We had someone build the Skye Bridge paid them plenty and then we had to Buy it again,

to get rid of them.

 

We have Free Hospital Parking,

Not at Ninewells Hospital & some others though. They were Financed & are Run Privately.

We have a Contract with a Company that can not be Bought out,

It is to valuable in Income to them for us to get control of our own land back.

(That was Scottish Labour & Scottish Lib Dems in Coalition.)

The Average Speed Cameras are going in now Dunblane to Inverness.

 

& the HGV's are going to be allowed a rise in the National Speed limit

on single carriageway sections as a trial.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-25236767

 

They need to get the Supermarket HGV loads back on the Rail Line Perth to Inverness,

it worked well when it was being done.

The Scottish Government just need to help fund it again.

& proper Fast turn around Depots & Rail Links  in Perth, Inverness, maybe even at Stirling.

It'll be ages before the cameras go in...hopefully!

 

I can't see the road being completed by 2025, any way hopefully by then I wont be driving it very much!

The average speed cameras are not for the new road, but their reaction for a quick fix now,

to look like Keith Brown MSP is doing something.

 

So after the Referendum. Where the cameras were to be in place before.

(well maybe baby, they are now listening instead of dictating.

They usually have a consultation then tell you what they are doing anyway.)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26336873

Off topic, but does anyone know the story of the 06 plate merc that has been parked up south of House of Bruar for weeks now?

 

Now seems to be squatted in by a vagrant.

Off topic, but does anyone know the story of the 06 plate merc that has been parked up south of House of Bruar for weeks now?

 

Now seems to be squatted in by a vagrant.

 

It's been there for about a year or more.... some guy apparently lives in it....

Off topic, but does anyone know the story of the 06 plate merc that has been parked up south of House of Bruar for weeks now?

 

Now seems to be squatted in by a vagrant.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/pictures-pensioner-charles-been-living-2364285

 

John

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/pictures-pensioner-charles-been-living-2364285

 

John

I'd been wondering about this for ages!

Glad to be able to help, I'm not sure where I heard about the story with the guy and his Merc...I thought it was on this forum but possibly was a discussion at work.

 

I see they're now talking about average speed camera sections on the A9 which makes more sense given how remote some of the areas are (making camera installation costly) and how many junctions there are on the road.   In find my average speed on the A9 is not that great anyway due to slow traffic or poor weather, the current speed vans are more of a concern because they can be anywhere and they tend to be on the good overtaking spots.

 

John

Well watched it last night, was good seeing some of the older footage but all it did was tell us what we know already that accidents are caused by drivers. 

The American couple were great, especially the bit when the woman thought the Arnold Clark sticks on the rear of the cars was for a politician running for office.

I drove the A9 from Dunblane to Aviemore and back last weekend - not a bad road by Norfolk standards!

 

Traffic was fairly light and plenty of opportunities to get past the HGVs even in a 1.4 Astra hire car

I drove the A9 from Dunblane to Aviemore and back last weekend - not a bad road by Norfolk standards!

 

Traffic was fairly light and plenty of opportunities to get past the HGVs even in a 1.4 Astra hire car

 

It's all dualled south of Perth, the crossings/junctions cause the big accidents there.

 

North it can be ok but often it's rammed with lorries and caravans making the dualled sections into drag strips and the single carriageway bits the home of the loony overtakers.

 

Average speed cameras are just a way of avoiding spending the money the road needs to be safe. Can't imaging how anyone thinks a road will be safer with 10000 drivers all staring 18" in front of them at the speedo and not on the road.

Edited 8 March, 201412 yr by Aspman

So work start on the 'Average Speed Camera' installation on the A9 today,

and to take 28 weeks possibly, planned to be completed by October.

28 frickin weeks of works and lights.

 

I'm sure that'll make the road a whooooole lot safer.

I wish I could opt my tax out of things I think are political ******.

they say there will be only minor holdups, fat chance!!!  the temp lights will just cause the traffic to form strings and frustrate people into overtaking in silly places

The 7 sites for the cameras are on stretches of Single Carriageway,

so no matter where the cameras are placed at start to finish there is disruption at those points during the work,

& the Telecommunications  work etc.

 

So Homecoming Scotland Year, Ryder Cup, Commonwealth games etc,

& those heading North to avoid that Central Belt Tartan Tat are sitting fuming North of Perth this Summer.

 

A good reason to Vote NO in September and Pete Wishart, Keith Brown and Alex Salmond might get the idea that Voters think they are pillocks.

Not fit to run a p155 up in a brewery, well not in the Highlands & Islands.