A83 to close at Arrochar for repairs

Plan travel times or face hour-long, 50-mile detour

MOTORISTS are being warned to plan their journey times because July will see roadworks on the A83 around Arrochar, including night-time working and road closures.

The overnight work began on Monday for the first phase. Overall, the scheme comprises two phases of improvements costing £135,000 to the east of Arrochar, as well as a section to the west of Arrochar at Succoth. Upgrades to existing drainage systems will be carried out, as well as additional gullies installed to help provide increased drainage in times of severe weather. During the drainage operations the road will remain open, but to ensure the safety of the workforce and members of the public, it will be necessary for temporary traffic lights and a 30mph speed limit overnight.

As operations involve laying new pipe work across the carriageway, traffic will be held up for approximately 30-40 minutes each night, while the workers cross the centre of the road.

This will be carried out in the early hours of the morning so as to cause minimal disruption. No works are scheduled to take place over the weekend. In the second phase, two sections of the road, a 400m stretch of the A83 east of Arrochar and a 700m section at Succoth, west of Arrochar, are set to be resurfaced following the drainage improvements.

Due to the restricted width of the A83, a road closure is required to ensure the safety of workers as well as the travelling public.

The A83 will be closed each night through Arrochar from 9pm to 7am, with a diversion in place for trunk road traffic via the A82 Tarbet to Tyndrum, the A85 Tyndrum to Dalmally and the A819 Dalmally to Inveraray.

The road will be open during the day. Emergency services will be able to pass through the works at all times and local access only for Arrochar village will be maintained when it is safe to pass through the work area.