Original posts from Horseman and Bill Fernie response
Caithness Roads….14 February 2023
I continually see the comments and pictures on the Dis-repair of the North of Scotland roads, particularly Caithness.
Over the past 40+ years of ‘travelling back’, I was amazed at the number of Town and Village name signs. I think once I counted 3 on each end of Dornoch. Many Villages were the same. I took pictures of them and got a price, and some were costing Hundreds of £s each!
In addition….the speed signs…sometime 2/3 on each side of the roads, with other ‘pointy’ ones were littered along the roads.
Once there was construction at Berriedale, and the Warning signs were every 50 yards with many speed signs!
I asked at that time on here and was told that, at one time there was copious amounts of money, and instead of ‘that rainy day thingy’, the Councils just went out an blew the money on signs!
So now you are those days of need, and cannot even fix the huge holes.
Methinks it is time that the Councillors who make such decisions, be monitored more closely.
I don't know who funds and subsidizes the building of hundreds of unneeded windmills, and ‘Wave Therapy’ in the Pentland Firth, but someone has to do something! The past cannot be regained, but the future is now, and wasting money on the above projects, where the Windmills are not needed, and The Wave Generators are experimental, should be seriously investigated.
One of the Detractors/statements/recommendations where Wave Power experiments should not be used, is in Extreme TIDES and WINDS…. …..The Pentland Firth. These experiments are being conducted around The World, in Saner conditions, and still they as yet, cannot be perfected.
Someone should find out how much Subsidized Money is given out in The North for another ‘hair brained’ idea. I’ll bet you are unable to fund out! All is hidden with your Councils!
Food for Thot!
Addendum……..A story from Way Back…..A friend and myself in our Teens were driving into Wick. We were stopped by the Polis at the Cemetery. They had some new fangled speed indicator. Said One Bobby……You were speeding over 30!…Do you know the speed. We looked at him and he asked us to go back and look at the signs….. so my friend who was ‘smarter’ than me…looked at the 30 mph signs on each side of the road and said…30 and 30 makes 60!
Take it from me, he nor I, ever said that again….. Summary Justice at it’s best!
Last edited by The Horseman; 14-Feb-23 at 01:20.
Bill Fernie 14 February 2023
Without getting into all of your points can I remind you that no council is responsible for the road you mention. The road is the responsibility of Transport Scotland that comes under the Scottish Government. The signage on the A9 is not for the council to decide.
Transport Scotland deals with the trunk road network and councils deal with the rest.
On windmills without getting into the argument for and against on the siting of them they do supply an increasing amount of our energy in the UK.
Many signs are erected for safety reasons or to ensure people have directions.
I do not believe anyone is proposing to use wave generators now after having them tested extensively in Orkney.
Things have moved on and the main thinking is around floating turbines and underwater tidal generators. Of course land based turbines are mainly what we have with many more on the way.
The days of subsidies for wind are now mainly in the past as they are and have been for sometime immensely profitable - at our cost of course.
None of the above is hidden by the council as it mainly is not in their remit apart from the planning applications.
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