A9 petition

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

so i forgot to turn of.... sorry!  :006: :007:

[Guest donmac298]

Couldn't possibly have been you FW......her top was up!

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

ah but i didnt HAVE my top down that day!!!  :004:

[Johnboy]

Passed by your place today, FW.... Was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of your rear end... Very nice too,

Could be doing with a wash though....  :015: :015:

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

so why didnt you stop and give her a good rub down.... she did go all the way to perth yesterday... no wonder she's a bit mucky!

[Alex MacLeod]

Must have picked up the dirt at Drummochter then cos we're all clean living in Perth.

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

dash it, if i knew you were there, i'd have made you buy me lunch. :005:

. ......oopsy, ASKED if you FANCIED lunch!  :015:

[Johnboy]

She likes to take the odd short cut across the fields, Alex....!!

[Alex MacLeod]

Ah! but I'm not there, I'm here. Though I will be there on friday. But then I'll be away to get JB his brandy

[+Gringo]

Sending the freight by rail is a lot more expensive.....  Also, there would be increased congestion on the railway which, like the A9, is mainly single track as well.

True RiG, but just one train load could take 40 - 60 lorries off the road. Cost is also a big issue which has been brought about by successive 'road loving' governments. They'll fund billions for roads and bog all for the railways.

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

i'm sure a **** of a lot of products could be transported by rail.

just think of all the B&Q lorries, Tesco's, Asda's, building materials,...... mail.... the list is endless

[Alex MacLeod]

In actual fact RiG, it works out cheaper, in the long run, to use the rail network. As Gringo says, 40 - 60 trailers a time. Two trains each way per day from and to Perth would not hinder the scheduled 3 or 4 passenger trains on this route. Theres double lines, for passing, at most stations. That would take some 200+ lorries of the A9 thus reducing road maintenance costs, environmental and energy costs and, of course employment costs.

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

sorry, i hate to state the obvious here... or sound like a 'female'.... but....

why dont they then?

[Johnboy]

There's definitely some merit in that suggestion. A depot could be set up around Balloch, where containers arriving by rail could be collected by trucks.

I stll believe the incidence of serious and/or fatal accidents on the A9 could be cut dramatically by making it dual carriegeway from Perth to Inverness. The hybrid arrangement that exists at present, is downright blo0dy dangerous.....

[EWS]

They are actually upgrading the A9 between Ballenluig and Dunkeld & Birnam in the next few years.

[Johnboy]

What about this (the Sneck) end?

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

IMHO.... i think they are only making it worse by those bloody crawler lanes... another is planned for just north of carr-bridge....

any other thots on those?

[EWS]

Nothing as far as I know for up near Sneck.  The only reason I know about the Ballinluig ugrade is because a company I worked for during the summer was doing some work on it.

The government is more focused on the Edinburgh Tram Project probably.

[Alex MacLeod]

The actual plan for Ballinluig is to provide sliproads that remove the need for right turn in and out of village and to extend the dual carraigeway a further 500 metres south. This work begins in July. There has been talk about duelling all the way from Perth to the Perthshire / Highland boundary, by Perth & Kinross Council, but thats only at the talking stage. Its taken 10 years+ and a lot of casualties to get the Ballinluig junction progressed so I wouldnt hold my breath on anything else being done.

As for crawler lanes, they are just a pain in the but. The one thing that really gets on my wick is the driver who pulls out to pass a slow moving vehicle at a speed of one or two mph quicker than the vehicle he / she is passing, thus using the whole length of the crawler and preventing vehicles behind getting by.

[f*ballers wife]

.....the driver who pulls out to pass a slow moving vehicle at a speed of one or two mph quicker than the vehicle he / she is passing, thus using the whole length of the crawler and preventing vehicles behind getting by.

oh my!!!

YES, YES, YES.... with you RIGHT there babe!!!  :008:

[Kingsmills]

I tend to agree that the A96 is an even more frustrating dive than the A9.

[Action Man]

Dualling of the A9 and A96 is necessary if not essential for the future of the economy of the whole of the Highlands. HGV can do 40 and tourism, business and local traffic can enjoy a relatively stress free journey. The fact is that the A9 cannot cope with the sheer volume of traffic on it now, so how can it allow the area to grow? Plus free flowing traffic consumes less fuel. Dual is always better than single! :005:

[Johnboy]

I tend to agree that the A96 is an even more frustrating dive than the A9.

So don't go on the A96 then.... There's precious little to enjoy along it's entire length, and certainly nothing at the end of it..... :012: :012:

[Heilandee]

"Dualling of the A9 and A96 is necessary if not essential for the future of the economy of the whole of the Highlands."

Action Man,define the differance between necessary and essential!  yer startin to speak like a politition noo,you standin for Inverness East or summat?

(did you no get a dual in Invergordon one time?)  :001: mind if you do get into politics the Sun has first dibs on meh stories!!

[Alex MacLeod]

Collins English --- Essential - - - Absolutely necessary