Week 34
Happy New Year
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year. Let’s hope we have a better year in 2023!
My new year’s resolution is to read 52 books this year … which will be a struggle I fear but you have to have targets or you get no where. If you’re on Mastodon or elsewhere in the Fediverse you can follow my progress as @TallPaul@ramblingreaders.org. That link will also work from your web browser by the way.
Drop kerbs in Tradespark
Council plans to upgrade to drop kerbs in Tradespark (Seaforth Road, Sandwood Drive, Delnies Place & Croft Road) and at a number of road crossing points on Moss-side Road are beginning on 10th January and will run for about 8-10 weeks. The planned works will greatly benefit walking, wheeling and inclusive mobility access in the area and will see DDA compliant uncontrolled crossing points; new kerbs, tactile paving (yellow) and surface improvements/ repairs and enhance the link to the shared use path at Lochdhu Gate/Albyn Court leading to the High School and Railway Station benefiting wider active travel links.
King Street / Harbour Street roadworks
In less good news Scottish Gas are about to start two gas mains replacement projects investing approximately £170,000 in Nairn to ensure we continue to receive a safe and reliable gas supply for many years to come.
Starting on 9th January for around 12 weeks they will be working in King Street to replace approximately 140m of old metallic gas main with new polyethylene PE pipe. You can find full details here on their web site but the key details are:
Phase 1: from 9th January – approximately seven weeks - work on King Street with two way traffic being maintained by using the various filters lanes for through traffic however there will be significant restrictions/diversions if you want to enter/leave King Street.
Phase 2: from 27th February – approximately five weeks - they will be working from the entrance to the car park to Royal Walk and they will need to use temporary traffic lights on this section so that’s going to cause big delays although they say that they will ensure that temporary traffic lights will be manually controlled if necessary during peak periods. I’m not convinced that will help that much …
In addition to the above they’re also carrying out work on Harbour Street simultaneously. During this 12 week project they’re not going to use any traffic management other than what they describe as ‘give and take’, so presumably just taking it in turns to pass the works.
I anticipate that this is going to cause a lot of delays, especially during Phase 2 above. This is all largely outwith Highland Council control as King Street is a trunk road so if you have any issues then please contact their Customer Service Centre on 0800 912 1700 or email customer@sgn.co.uk