Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01540 · Session 4

Permanent Solution for A83

Closed Submitted 30 Oct 2014 Transport
Signatures
0
81 online signatures with a country
Comments
11
Considered
13 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that a permanent solution for the A83 at Rest and be thankful ensuring the vital lifeline route is not closed because of landslides

What the petitioner did first

This issue has been to the petitions committee in the past and the minister has attempted to resolve the solution by a method of netting to protect the route from closure. On its very first test the netting has not stopped the route from being closed and the emergency route come into action. Whilst this is a temporary solution to have the old military road used as a diversion route it is not satisfactory in the long term which leaves an already fragile area vulnerable

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 17 Feb 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 28 Apr 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 7 Sep 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  4. 27 Oct 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  5. 23 Feb 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  6. 16 Jun 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Work Programme
    1 mention
  7. 30 Jun 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  8. 29 Sep 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  9. 22 Dec 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  10. 6 Dec 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  11. 20 Jun 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  12. 5 Mar 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  13. 8 Oct 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

81 online signatures
  1. Scotland54 66.7%
  2. United Kingdom24 29.6%
  3. England2 2.5%
  4. Not given1 1.2%

Comments

11 comments, oldest first
  1. Christine McIntosh 6 Nov 2014
    I've just waved a minibus off in the rain
    - 9 Russian musicians heading north via the A83. It was hard to explain why and how their journey might take longer than their sat-nav suggested
    - it's a ridiculous situation to be in.
  2. Fiona Fraser 6 Nov 2014
    All Roads in need upgraded
  3. CAPTAIN JOHN S. COLMAN 7 Nov 2014
    THE TRANSPORT MINISTER TRIES TO TALK A GOOD GAME. HE URGENTLY NEEDS TO INSIST ON A FINAL SOLUTION MINUS REPEATED BOTCHED PATCH-UP ATTEMPTS.
  4. Steven Girvan 7 Nov 2014
    If this was the main access route to the Scottish Parliament it would have been resolved by now. Spend some money in rural areas rather than always on your back door ministers!!! I had to endure over a 3 hour detour home last night due to the A83 & A82 being closed. How is the new bridge coming along by the way??
  5. Robert Keith Thomson 7 Nov 2014
    Building "shed" protection (as used in Austria, Switzerland etc.) in the areas threatened by landslips should be tried.It may be less expensive than many of the other schemes which have been tried or suggested.
  6. Neil Anderson 7 Nov 2014
    I am disabled, having non- Hodgkins Lymphoma and Peripheral Neuropathy, and have to make numerous trips each year to hospitals in Glasgow and the Vale of Leven from my home in Tarbert, Kintyre. My condition means I am very sensitive to vibration. Every closure means at least an additional 50 miles each way. The level of pain I have to deal with is extreme at the best of times. A permanent solution is greatly needed.
  7. Michael Watts 7 Nov 2014
    What happened to the feasibility study that was to be done? The Scottish Government is allowing a road to be used that is unsafe. It is amazing that no one has been killed. Is that what it will take? A bus full of tourists killed by thousands of tons of falling rock. Will it be like the notorious A74 that there had to be a certain number of fatalities before something is done?
  8. Paul Ashton 8 Nov 2014
    It has to be clear to anyone who has viewed the scale of the fence barriers against the size of the hill, that they were never going to work. We are overdue for a proper solution to this, possibly a tunnel.
  9. alex armstrong 9 Nov 2014
    build a tunnel or impact roof allowing debris to fall down the mountain. the problem will to continue to get worse and will cost another x millions of pounds
  10. David McCallum 10 Nov 2014
    It has to be a tunnel. If you travel anywhere in Europe this is the norm. You will then in the winter have no need to grit or snow plough the road saving thousands of pounds on the roads budget
  11. Anne McCallum 10 Nov 2014
    A total waste of 8 million. Our Spanish friends just laughed at the futile attempts we are making to try and stop the landslides and said they should come to Spain to see how to resolve the problem.