Dear Community Council,
Please pass on my thanks to local residents in Scaniport, Dores and the wider area for their cooperation and patience during the part-time road closures on Monday and Tuesday this week for the tree felling works.
Highland Tree Doctors, carried out a fantastic job with a lot of care and attention to the local surroundings, managing pedestrians and cyclists on the shared-use path in what was a constrained and difficult working environment and the area has been left in good condition.
Alba Traffic Management carried out the road closure to their usual high standards and managed buses and local access well. We tweaked the routing signing on the second day where required and although some motorists did arrive at the closure we did not encounter any problems. Overall this worked very well.
The support of Angus in allowing use of his field for access to the site and timber removal is very much appreciated by the contractors and Highland Council. This helped make the job much easier and safer which was great.
There was a couple of lower branches remaining which were removed this morning and visibility is now greatly improved with the Gateway area much more open and visible.
I will press on and organise the remaining works being the signs, lines and Gateway features. I will advise of dates for these works once the signs are manufactured and delivered and once I have a date from the road marking contractor. Hopefully I will manage to get this in place before the winter with the new 40 restriction coinciding with this.
If you have any queries please let me know.
Best regards,
Colin.
Colin Ross
Senior Engineer – Strategy & Testing
The Highland Council | Infrastructure, Environment and Economy