Road network in Fort William is inadequate

I was interested to hear Nicola Sturgeon offer to take Jeremy Corbyn to visit the ‘smelter in Fort William’ so that she could show him ‘… how to deliver an active industrial policy’ during her keynote speech to the SNP conference last week.

Might I suggest that should Mr Corbyn take her up on her kind invitation, they should probably plan to arrive by helicopter, since the primary road into Fort William – the A82 – is barely fit for B-road designation? Having arrived in Fort William, should they manage it, they would be well advised to park at the West End car park and walk to the smelter, since this will be far quicker than trying to drive across town.

As an alternative, could I humbly suggest that a far better plan would be to ask the smelter not to employ another 400 individuals, ask Linnhe Leisure to not upgrade the Nevis Centre to encourage greater use of the facility, to beg NHS Highland to not build a new hospital and Highland Council to not build another 200 homes at Blar Mhor, until she has had time to find the funds required to