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BBC TV Scottish news segment (8.25 am) saying A83 closed at Rest and be Thankful owing to landslip. Showing on Traffic Scotland website as having started at 7.21 am today.

Yes, just read this myself. Here are the details appearing on TRaffic Scotland website at http://trafficscotland.org/currentincid ... x?id=c8841

Date: Thursday, 01 December 2011
Start Time: 07:21:43
Location: A83 B828 - A815 Rest and Be Thankful
Direction: Eastbound & Westbound
Type: Closure
Description: All lanes closed in both directions.
Cause: Landslip
Diversion: Diversion for traffic in both directions will be via A83 Inveraray – A819 Dalmally – A85 Tyndrum – A82 Tarbet
Expected Duration: Until further notice.

Here we go again!

Does anyone know what the detour distance is please?

+30minutes at the least...........if you're are lucky

26 miles according to Traffic Scotland, be near 45 mins though.

LANDROVER ROGER wrote:Does anyone know what the detour distance is please?

Its 49miles and will take you over a hour depending on the traffic.

Roger,if you have a few bucks to spare you can go via Tarbert/Portavadie ferry to Dunoon,then cross over to Gourock by Western Ferries.

jdcarra wrote:

LANDROVER ROGER wrote:Does anyone know what the detour distance is please?

Its 49miles and will take you over a hour depending on the traffic.

Roger,if you have a few bucks to spare you can go via Tarbert/Portavadie ferry to Dunoon,then cross over to Gourock by Western Ferries.

Perhaps worth noting - It is however an additional 26 miles on to the 24 miles you would normally travel between Inveraray and Tarbet and adds around 40 minutes I would say but will now be obviously busier.

What a scunner however. When is it going to get fixed properly?

According to the BBC news at lunchtime it will be closed for up to 24 hours. If it was a video from today they showed it wasn't too bad.

The A83 in Argyll could be closed for up to 24 hours after a landslide.

Up to 100 tonnes of the hillside slipped, with some falling onto the Rest and Be Thankful, west of Loch Lomond, at 07:00, resulting in the road being closed in both directions.

A long diversion is in place which will add significantly to journeys times. It runs via the A83, A819, A85 and A82.

This is the third time in four years the Rest and Be Thankful, in Argyll and Bute, has been affected by a landslide.

It was closed for lengthy periods in 2007 and 2009.

The most recent slip follows several days of heavy rain across the country.

There are about 30 flood warnings in force across Scotland, many of them in Perthshire. In Hawick, fire crews had to pump out their own station.

From Democracy Live: Alex Salmond warned the road could be closed for 24 hrs duing fmqs
Updating MSPs on the latest situation during question time at Holyrood, First Minister Alex Salmond said: "Engineers are on site as we speak, but there can be no clearance operation until the water has subsided and a risk assessment of any further slippage is carried through."

Oh no, I hope it's all cleared by tomorrow for when I come down the road :/

Time to start thinking about the ferry again...........

As i said elsewhere, if the would stop all the faffing around and Health and safety stuff and shoved it all over the edge, and got the road open that would get things moving!

Get a couple farmers on the go with some loaders, half an hour and jobs a good'un.

D10jimmy wrote:As i said elsewhere, if the would stop all the faffing around and Health and safety stuff and shoved it all over the edge, and got the road open that would get things moving!

Get a couple farmers on the go with some loaders, half an hour and jobs a good'un.

Glad you dont work for me D10 . health and safetys there for a reason. would you like to be going past when some more stuff comes down.get the hillside checked before the road is opened sounds better to me.think you realy wanted to be a road engineer with all your road realated comments on here.

Update on A83 closure at Rest and Be Thankful @ 4.30pm

The A83 at Rest and Be Thankful is still closed to traffic as a result of a landslip this morning.

single lane clearance is now in effect to allow access for all emergency services vehicles only. These access arrangements will continue overnight.

ScotlandTranserv will review the situation at first light tomorrow morning.