"often quite far from A9"
Says my daughter on way to John o' Groats.
Yesterday she saw "3 red squirrels".
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"A9 cycle route very good"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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How far north is she?
Has she done the Drumochter section yet?
(Some interesting reading on that URL)Is she sticking religously to the NCR or mixing it up a bit?
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"Has she done the Drumochter section yet?"
Yesterday.
Not just NCN
Initial planned route -
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=806705
(Includes 'detours' to see friends).
Day before Edinburgh went via A7 instead of scenic route (very windy). Left via Russell Road + DMains path.
Posted 13 years ago # -
"Left via Russell Road + DMains path"
Making a long journey even longer!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Today's update -
"seven red squirrels spotted so far"
Posted 13 years ago # -
I cycled some of that route earlier this year - with a couple of diversions.
A short ride reportPosted 13 years ago # -
@Druidh, a blank linky for me? :-(
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Posted 13 years ago #
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That works :-)
Great route description thanks, sounds like you had a really nice run.Posted 13 years ago # -
Upgrade to A9 at Crubenmore draws criticism - I don't know this stretch myself, but the gist of the article is that the process of dualling the A9 here will block access to a route on the old Wade's road linking Newtonmore to Fort Augustus that is used by riders, walkers and - I presume as "cycling groups" were consulted - cyclists.
Like I've said before This Is Transport Scotland (make your own acronym).
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Pretty sure they will be refering to the track that leaves the A9 near Etteridge and disapears of the top right of the map:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=267500&Y=791500&A=Y&Z=120
I've never been on it but it looks like a good cycle route...
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1554215
...at first, but get's narrower further north:
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"I don't know this stretch myself, but the gist of the article is that the process of dualling the A9 here will block access to a route on the old Wade's road"
From today's Sunday Herald
(Couldn't find online.)
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COUNTRYSIDE campaigners angry at being barred from a historic route across the A9 in the Cairngorms are planning a series of protests that will blockade the road and delay motorists.
Unless the government’s Transport Scotland digs a tunnel or builds a bridge at Crubenmore, just south of Newtonmore, it will have “blood on its hands” because people will be killed attempting to cross a new dual carriageway, they claim.
Walkers, cyclists and horse riders are demanding politicians commit to constructing a crossing in the next few weeks. Otherwise, on April 20 they will launch a summer of protest walks along the A9 that will delay traffic.
“If our protests are unsuccessful, I am quite prepared to drive up and down the A9 roadworks all summer with my horse and carriage to show my contempt,” said Ruaridh Ormiston, who runs Newtonmore Riding Centre.
He is furious that dualling the A9 will prevent him from taking pony trekkers along one of the old military roads built by General Wade to control the Jacobites in the early 1700s. The route is also popular with walkers, cyclists and local people.
Wade’s road crosses the A9 at Crubenmore, and for years pony-trekking parties have been guided across by police. But now it is being widened to a dual carriageway with central barriers, this will become impossible.
Ormiston says the simplest solution is a tunnel, but this has been re]ected by Transport Scotland as too costly. But an underpass would only cost £10,000 if it were built now he argues.
“This trans-Highland route is crucial for local tourism and long distance non-vehicular users and is part of our cultural heritage,” he said. “lf somebody is killed trying to cross the dual carriageway here, their blood will be on Transport Scotland’s hands.”
The case for a crossing at Crubenmore has been backed by Ramblers Scotland, Cairngorms National Park, the British Horse Society and the Trekking and Riding Society of Scotland.
David Morris, director of Ramblers Scotland, said: “If ministers fail to solve this problem, we expect to exercise to our right to use the Wade road every week through the summer. It is likely to lead to far longer traffic hold-ups than the 10 minutes planned for April 20.”
Transport Scotland’s decision to block access across the A9 was described as “unfortunate” by the Cairngorms National Park’s senior access officer, Bob Grant. The campaigners also received unexpected sympathy from the Road Haulage Association’s Scottish director, Phil Flanders.
“It would probably be cheaper in the long run to build them a bridge and save all the potential disasters," he said. But he urged protesters not to block the main road to the Highlands.
A Transport Scotland spokeswoman said there had been no “crossing facility” at Crubenmore before the dualling work began in November. “That situation remains unchanged.”
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Geekiness alert -
Above text OCRed on my iPhone using Perfect OCR
Quicker than typing (for me at least) - very good recognition, just have to remove all the line returns.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Tex-Edit is quite nice for many things including cleaning up text.
Posted 13 years ago # -
This was on Radio Scotland's Out of Doors programme a few weeks ago. So looks like campaign is gathering momentum.
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Audio article on the crossing-the-A9 problem:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12954728
I think Bill Shaw may have been exagerating when he said (near the end), "we've all had friends killed on the A9".
As an aside, does anyone think that the picture accompanying the article is actually Scotland, let alone the A9?
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That picture is anywhere but Scotland!
Posted 13 years ago # -
Good spot.
Google images has a lot to answer for! There is an A9 in northern California that might look like that...If that's Scotland then global warming is further along than I thought. Less grass than the pitch at Fir Park.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Meheheheh! Genius!
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BBC | A9 Luncarty to Tay dualling plans on display
"Plans for making the A9 a dual carriageway between Luncarty and the Tay Crossing in Perthshire are to go on display to the public next week.
The estimated cost for widening the 10-mile section, north of Perth, is £200m."
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