April / May 2007

Planned Maintenance Work / Overnight Road Closure   Planned maintenance works are scheduled over two sections of the A82, in the vicinity of Pulpit Rock and further south of this location where temporary traffic lights have been erected. These works at an estimated cost of around £600,000 are scheduled to commence from Monday 16th April with an expected 3 week period for completion and will be subject to overnight closure of the A82 to allow these works to be carried out with minimal traffic disruption. The planned maintenance works will comprise carriageway resurfacing (and localised patching outwith these areas), construction of two new surface water culverts, cleaning and renewal of signs, gully emptying and replacement of damaged marker posts. Some remedial works will be undertaken to the localised embankment failure at the same time, however the temporary traffic lights will remain for a few weeks following the resurfacing works to enable final reinstatement works to be completed.

A82 Closed

The A82 trunk road between Tarbet and Crianlarich was closed from 18.22 on Sunday 13 March 2006. It reopened  on Tuesday 15 March 2006 at 3pm a closure period of some 45 hours. This closure caused West Coast traffic to be diverted via Inveraray adding 1 1/2 hours to their journey Trimedia (0131 272 2715) advised that the closure was due to heavy snow fall on the trees which caused branches to break and fall onto the road. The specific area effected by the snow / trees was Inveruglass to Inverarnan. No detailed information is available on the incident however drivers who ignored the closure notice report little problems and  little evidence of clearing work. We have asked for photographs of the area in order to reassure the public of the severity of the incident   Monday 20 March 06