The Kintyre Forum

Last nights Wind Towers movement has ended up in the ditch the other side of Tarbert at 4am and the road was still blocked at 8pm. Hopefully no one was injured, but nobody could give any info this evening. Luckily the accident allowed a convoy system to operate past the golf course to the other exit at Barmore Farm. This doesn't bode well for further movements. Maybe someone will realise now that having a company producing the largest stuff the roads can carry shouldn't be based at the furthest point from anywhere in Scotland.

tarmmaker wrote:Maybe someone will realise now that having a company producing the largest stuff the roads can carry shouldn't be based at the furthest point from anywhere in Scotland.

Perhaps they could have been transported by boat to Ardishaig and then by road for this project???

Can i just make it clear,when a tower part leaves the gates of Wind Towers(Scotland)Ltd PLEASE NOTE NAME !!!! The transport has nothing to do with the company,Also everyone seems to endulge if something is a failure.If the the afore mentioned company was not present in the local area,Campbeltown and its surrounding are would be a poorer place,as it gives a lot of local work to local companies!!!!

Fair point Kinman, but if the transport infrastructure is not up to the job, it doesn't look good.

that another one just moved out accident free i hope ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

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Ultimately no matter what speculation or 'local knowledge' -regards the contractors/manufacturers it seems that despite piecemeal improvements to the road they are not enough.

The bends at top of bottom of Muasdale improvement now seem bad compared with the improvement. And there are still plenty other 'tightspots' .
After this and numerous other accidents on the A83 its time the road was brought upto standard?