The Kintyre Forum

Suprised to find no one's already mentioned this due to the media's current obsession with snow!

Though the snow may have thawed in the town if you are travelling further afield please be aware of the following road disruption:
A82 Loch Lomond side- closed from Renton to Ardlui (including Tarbet)
A83 Rest & Be thankful -closed from Dunoon rd. end (A815) to Tarbet

These closed approx 1400 this afternoon and are still closed according to Traffic Scotland updates, it is stressed by Police that alternative routes may also be blocked by snow and travel should not be attempted unless absolutely essential.

Bus service today has been affected with only earliest departures from Campbeltown & Glasgow respectively completing full journeys.

Please check before travel, and take care :
Traffic Scotland http://trafficscotland.org/index.aspx
Citylink http://www.citylink.co.uk/serviceupdates.php0871 266 33 33

The Rest has been removed from the list of closures, but the Lochside is still showing as closed.

Any update on the road closures this morning?

re-opened approx 0230 this morning apparently.

Anyone have any updates on the road tonight? Apparently there was quite a tail back at Loch Lomond

Was clear Arrochar to Balloch 4.30 pm today

The A83 was hellish from Tayinloan-Clachan then Ardrishaig-Lochgilphead this morning.
After getting there safely my course In Lochgilphead was cancelled due to other people not making it because of the weather. It then took 3 hours to get back to Campbeltown from Lochgilphead!!
Thankfully there were some nice folk on the road today who were happy to help out when I got "stuck" .
Not something I want to repeat in a hurry but obviously very mild compared to what the people stuck on the M8 for hours and hours are experiencing

I put a wee post on General section, because we attempted to go to Braehead today. We left at 8am, and as Ags said, pretty bad for a couple of miles after Clachan (at the high bit), then quite white from Tarbert to before Minard. It then cleared and the Rest was great in comparison. It then got white again before Luss, we saw the 7.15 bus from the town do a u-turn and realised they must have got some info (about 11.15/11.30). There was a huge line of traffic round the next corner, so we phoned home and got an update about the M8 so decided to head back ourselves. However, the road was much better coming home (although 3 accidents had occurred since we passed) and we had a quick run. We stopped for lunch at Inveraray, but the weather had got a lot better and the journey from there took no longer than normal.
I feel so sorry for all those caught up in the tailbacks, and am very glad that we didn't carry on any further.

Katya,

In Glasgow 'massive' delays. My wife took almost 3 hours to return from her school after it closed at 2.00pm. A 6 mile journey. Glasgow City Council won't make a decison about closure until tomorrow even though it's minus 7 and heavy fog. Has the world gone mad..