A96 Inverurie - Huntly

There are several things that really bug me about this stretch of the A96.

Trying to get information from any other traffic or news website about why this section of road is closed is at times virtually impossible. It is 'the' main route between Aberdeen and Inverness and yet back in October when it was closed for 10+ hours - yes over 10 hours due to an accident near Inveramsay Bridge, there was nothing about it on the television news.

Again yesterday (6th January 2010) there were jackknifed lorries at -yet again Inveramsay Bridge - and the Traffic Scotland website was showing as an incident between the Oyne Fork and Colpy. Completely the wrong information if you were trying to plan your route. As if the roads aren't bad enough just now anyway with the levels of snow we are experiencing without false info about where incidents are actually located. Now admittedly, there may also have been an incident at the location they had marked on the map, however that means that again the Pitcaple stretch was completely ignored.

Why does it matter so much? Well because being the only main route between two major cities in Scotland that has a single file bridge with a set of traffic lights on it that I'm aware of you need to know before leaving Inverurie if you can't get along that stretch so that you can take the alternative route and you need to know before the turn off to the left at Colpy if coming down the road so that you can avoid any problems.

So many local MP's have said "If I get voted for, I will campaign for improving this section of the A96" even our current heedy man Alex Salmond and yet still nothing has been done about it.