Pressure mounts over road junction

THE increasingly poor condition of the junction of the A82 and A86 has been flagged up by local residents following growing pressure on road maintenance firm BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland to take action.

Residents in the Spean Bridge, Roy Bridge and Achnacarry Community Council area have raised a number of issues with local MSP Donald Cameron, who has demanded that BEAR Scotland takes urgent action on the road junction.

Mr Cameron had previously written to Transport Scotland to request a meeting with chief executive Roy Brannen, but no meeting was offered with the head of the public body.

In a letter to BEAR Scotland, the regional MSP expressed his frustration at how the condition of the junction has become increasingly dangerous and echoed local residents’ ‘justifiable concerns’ that there is a lack of action being taken either by Transport Scotland or by BEAR Scotland to resolve the issue.

Mr Cameron said: ‘This problem has gone on for far too long and I am thoroughly unimpressed with the lacklustre manner in which Transport Scotland and BEAR Scotland are handling the issues raised by the local community council.

‘I have written to BEAR Scotland to demand urgent action on the junction, and I hope it will swiftly intervene, because it appears that too many promises have been made and not kept.’