Major bridge works coming soon
A heads up of potential major traffic disruption to the Kessock and Cromaty bridges early next year: Bridge repairs ‘will not clash’ Repairs to two major road bridges in the Highlands will not happen at the same time, Transport Scotland has said. Preparatory work ahead of full-scale refurbishment could be carried out on the Cromarty [...]
New Inverness to Zurich flights
HIAL and HIE are reported to have set up one-weekly charter flights to Zurich to run for three years: New flights route between Inverness and Zurich Holiday company Falcontravel/MTCH-AG will run the service once a week from May to September. HIAL said a 100-seater aircraft would make the flights on Saturdays with a capacity of [...]
Danny Alexander challenges Scotrail fares
Danny Alexander is reported by the Inverness Courier to be challenging Scotrail over existing fares – and makes for interesting reading: Demand for action over ‘absurd’ rail fare structure Advance single tickets are only available ahead of the day of travel and are priced at £7.50 for a journey from Inverness to Aberdeen. The same [...]
Time to rethink Nairn’s road plan?
Work moves towards completion on the new Nairn Town and County Hospital, which aims to concentrate local health services into a new very expanded building. While it’s great to see this continued investment in Nairn, I can’t help but worry somewhat about exist road planning – how will it cope with increased traffic routed through [...]
The Balblair Project
Thanks to comments on the Gurn referring to a post on the APT blog, the discussion issue of development at Balblair has been raised. There’s little detail so far, other than a general plan of where development may take place, as can be found here: 7N Architects: Balblair With so little information provided, obviously it’s [...]
Lights out at Lochloy again
The traffic lights at the junction between Lochloy Road and the A96 are not working again. There’s a sign stating “police accident” so I’m not sure if there was an incident last night causing the lights to go out. In the meantime, be prepared for Monday morning headaches if you’re trying to leave the Lochloy [...]
Mobile roadworks warning
The mobile roadworks have now made their way closer towards the town centre, causing a lot of disruption. Now stationed near the old community centre, it’s causing a lot of problems for any traffic trying to move around west Nairn. All traffic coming out from the town centre, Somerfield, or from the Cawdor road needs [...]
Inverness Airport…
I’m always greatly unimpressed how poor the retail facilities are within Inverness Airport once you go through security. Rather than have a shop, it’s a bar – with more varieties of whisky available than soft drinks. And especially no range for children. (Though quite a range of salmon products.) Don’t forget the insane mark-up, either [...]
New Bus Route: Nairn to Inverness Airport
The P&J reports a new bus service from Elgin to Inverness Airport, that will stop at Forres and Nairn on the way: New link to Inverness Airport Regional transport partnership Hitrans has provided funding of £60,000 for the venture, after requests from the public and Moray Council. The money will go towards two new buses, [...]
Highland Flying School closes
There’s a sad piece of news – not only has the Highland Flying School apparently closed down, but in acrimonious circumstances, too: Troubled flying school closes hangar doors A TROUBLED Inverness flying school at the centre of a police probe has ceased trading owing thousands of pounds to customers in pre-booked flying lessons and trial [...]