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684 days ago
Here's now the final report. From: Bob.Mitchell@transportscotland.gsi.gov.uk [mailto:Bob.Mitchell@transportscotland.gsi.gov.uk] Sent: 28 December 2007 14:57 To: Chris Eckl Cc: Sharon.McIlroy@transportscotland.gsi.gov.uk; Martin.Graham@transportscotland.gsi.gov.uk; Harvey.Kaplan@transportscotland.gsi.gov.uk Subject: A87 Trunk Road, Breakish, Isle of Skye - Request for Provision of Footway Dear Mr Eckl Further to our telephone discussion on Monday 17 December 2007 I now enclose the up to date version of the Feasibility Report on the provision of the missing footway link at Breakish, which Scotland Transerv prepared at my request. As I explained when we spoke, my understanding is that the present lengths of footway to the east and west of the 'missing' section were provided by the Trunk Road Authority, after A87 became a Trunk Road, as part of a general road improvement which also widened the road and provided better road drainage. It ...
706 days ago
709 days ago
Hi There Just had Bob Mitchell from Transport Scotland on the phone. He wasn’t happy that we had the survey without him having reviewed it trough my Freedom of Information request and ask me to destroy my copies. If you downloaded it could you also please do so. He will send the right version with plans this week. And he’ll add a letter explaining his thinking of the options. He spent some time on the phone explaining the various options and his budget constraints and was also saying that our pressure through elected representatives and press is helping it compete with other projects (so we need to keep this up). On the options he was explaining that he asked for a study that would not require any lot of land purchases so this option certainly would not be the “widen the road and put a footpath on the south side” option as this would be a multi million pounds project. The option he’s proposing would involve crossing the road 2 times and a footbridge (details will be in the plans ...
712 days ago
We have at the beginning of December received a response from Transport Scotland. This is seemingly the response from the Minister through Bob Mitchell the Area Manager. From feedback I also heard the same letter went out to everybody who wrote in (seemingly without going into details about the individual concerns voiced). Read the response This week we should be receiving the preliminary study. I've also asked them if there were any studies done when the original part of the footpath was built so let's see what this brings up, too. Chris
