Please see below graphics showing roadworks in Nairn. Seems to be quite a few along or adjacent to the A96.
Work to be carried includes all of the following :
Relining All Markings and Yellow Box Markings through Town including side road closures
Traffic light upgrades – A96 Lochloy Road and Library carpark – plus there may be others soon
SSEN Cabling to upgrade the 11KV lines
Gas Mains – all over the Town
BT and Openreach – all over the Town
Transport Scotland / Amey Coring the roads including the road bridge and various places on the A96
And of course Scottish Water at Lochloy Road and elsewhere
The A96 will be reduced to single lanes in several places at several times – Let the Chaos begin
Why have all these amenities all decided to all do their work all in the same short time-frame? From the experience of the many people I have spoken about with this – not the happy/clappys as they have been described to me – they will “just use their bikes”- Nairn will revert to tailback central again. What are the Haulier Companies; Buses; Emergency Vehicles; Carers Local businesses (Plumbers; Joiners; Deliveries; Taxies etc) going to do when caught up in this hour long tailbacks?
This has the makings of a long running comedy that lacks the laughs!
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Unfortunately, this situation was seen in the making years ago,hence the A96 bypass was suggested. All that has happened since has only compounded the problems. For example. the traffic lights through town appear to be organised to give priority to those on the A96, above all else. They do not act in breaks in the traffic, to change, and relieve some of the local traffic which backs up for long periods. The operators seem oblivious to the amount of problems caused when the A96 traffic blocking the roads so that locals can’t get out when lights change. Or, the problems caused by the increasing number of idiots who jump the lights.
Don’t get me wrong I know why people are acting this way. But then the issue was compounded with the introduction of 20 mph limits through town, two new roundabouts on the outskirts, a new large housing project increasing the number of vehicles, and the problem of drivers who continue to hold up traffic going to and from Inverness, or Aberdeen way. The pollution is another matter in slow moving traffic, as is those who overtake inappropriately, on busy roads.
I could continue, but what is the point, no credence is given to our concerns, by those who hold sway on the decision making. It is no surprise that people usually think one of two ways, one involves corruption, the other involves ineptitude. We could all be wrong, but think the proof is in the pudding, in that a solution was found, the bypass, yet nothing has been forthcoming. Think again, with the amount of civil unrest increasing over a variety of issues nowadays, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see some kind of fallout over the next wee while.
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