It's good to see all the info on the reports and info on this topic in order to understand why we have ended up in this crisis.

However the bottom line is that the people running the whole of Scotland and particularly the North have not invested sufficient funds for more than ten years. They thought they could just bodge things up and spend funds on other novelty vote catching projects down south. Now they have a massive task and monumental cost to get the roads back to an acceptable standard, something that will, in past experience, take years to complete.

In the meantime the people of the Highlands are expected to be happy to suffer the consequences of what is basically bad management.

No more excuses, no more elongated explanations, Scottish Government and Highland Council, just get the issue sorted out as quickly as possible before someone gets injured !