Crumbling rock delays the opening of landslide road

Published on Wednesday 15 February 2012 00:00

PLANS to partially reopen a lifeline road in Wester Ross, closed by a landslide since 22 December, have been delayed because more extensive work is needed to stabilise a crumbling rock face.

The A980 Lochcarron to Plockton road has been closed at the Strome Ferry bypass since a serious landslide brought hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubble down onto the route before Christmas. Since then Highland Council has been providing a car and a passenger ferry to transport people between Lochcarron and Plockton and Kyle.

Highland Council announced last week that the vital route would finally reopen during the hours of daylight on 17 February with works due to be completed by 17 March.

But the council revealed yesterday that the partial re- opening would be delayed until at least 27 February.

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The View from Salisbury Crags

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 08:34 AM

Highland Council should give up trying to keep the Stromeferry bypass road open - it will never succeed in stopping the rockfalls as there is a geological faultline which enters Loch Carron at at least three points along the road. Even more to the point the Brahan Seer - Coinneach Odhar - forecast precisely what is now happening in his prophecies some 200 years before the road was built. Either they put the whole thing in an avalanche shelter or reinstate Strome Ferry permanently - or until a bridge (or a tunnel) is built - or they run an alternative route through Attadale and Gleann Udalain which is what they should have done from the outset. The only reason why the road was run along the lochside, apart form a misguided attempt to save money, was because the council in a very two faced machiavellian manoevre at the same time as voicing support for the retention of the Kyle railway were betting on the line closing so that the road could take over the track bed which as we know has not happened and will not happen.

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