Comment posted Overnight closures for Connel Bridge for repairs to damage caused by high truck by Tim McIntyre.
As linnhe says, there is a recently-installed system of vehicle height sensors linked to NADIX-type display boards/flashing lights, but there have been some ‘teething troubles’ with these.
Recent comments by Tim McIntyre
- New SNP group leader unable to keep the sheep in the pen
Newsroom – I’m not sure about your use of the phrase ‘sheep in a pen’ – it seems to me that a more apt metaphor for the job of leading this party group within A & B is ‘herding cats’.
Another version I have seen is ‘minding mice at a crossroads’
- Patron of Northern Lighthouse Board incredulous at Tiree Array proposal
I was just responding to your own post, pm. It is pretty clear that major industrial economies across the world, including the two you mentioned yourself, are investing heavily in renewables including wind power. Thus your view that wind development is nothing but an economic ‘millstone’ does not appear to be widely shared.Your point about using per-capita figures is fair enough – but I notice you focused solely on China, and did not highlight that Germany’s wind capacity is around 3 times higher than the UK’s on that basis, and that even the US is ahead of us.
Are you sure that it would be cheaper to invest all our money in developing another country’s renewable resources, and a huge (and hopefully very reliable) cable to bring the power over, than to just invest in our own – which are by all accounts the best in Europe?
- Patron of Northern Lighthouse Board incredulous at Tiree Array proposal
China has 76GW of wind capacity and is expected to reach 100GW by 2015.Germany has 31GW of wind capacity and rising fast.
The US has 60GW of wind capacity, also rising fast.
The UK has less than 10GW of wind capacity.
There doesn’t seem to be much sign that building wind farms leads to economic problems.
- Fabulous results for Campbeltown AFC and Lochgilphead Red Star
And there’s more… Oban Saints under-14s also lifted a Dumbarton Football Development League Cup for their age-group on Sunday 12th May, at the end of a close-fought final with runners-up Lochgilphead Red Star u14s. The score was 4-3 at the Bet Butler stadium in Dumbarton.The cup success comes close to the end of a fantastic season for these boys who are also currently at the top of their 11-team league, with three games still to play.
A vintage year for Argyll youth football!
- Patron of Northern Lighthouse Board incredulous at Tiree Array proposal
Whatever the many factors to be taken into account by the Holyrood government when they come to consider this project, I doubt they will give much weight to a one-line comment given to the Daily Mail by a lady whose knowledge of the project to date appears to be: “They gave planning permission for 700 windmills on the reef around Skerryvore…”More amusing still is a comment later in the same article (and preceding another saying how advantageous it is to be able to see so much of the country from one’s helicopter): “The Princess Royal said Americans in particular tended to be awestruck by the wilderness in Scotland, adding: ‘They can’t get a grip of the fact that you’ve got all these people living here yet you get these remarkable empty vistas’”
Not that remarkable when you consider that much of the wilderness was created 150 years ago by her ‘sort’ forcing most of the ‘people living here’ off to… America! You’d think they of all people would have a pretty good grip of that
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At the risk of Ferryman accusing me of not being a regular user of the Connel Bridge (I plead guilty) I’d like to know why – to the best of my knowledge – there’s no form of overhead warning barrier that triggers stop lights if an overheight vehicle approaches the bridge? This type of ‘fail-safe’ precaution is common enough in some European countries – for example, at level crossings where there’s an overhead electric line.
In this country any construction site involving traffic under low power lines will be legally required to have ‘goalposts’, and it leaves me wondering if the trunk road authority is asleep – or maybe their managing agents get a percentage of the cost of repairing the likes of Connel Bridge? I just can’t believe that the cost of repairs – and disruption – is outweighed by the cost of fitting effective safety warnings.
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there are warning signs linked to a lazer beam – to the south and the north.
notoriously unreliable.
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What I’ve seen in some places is a hefty steel pipe suspended from cables over the road – no electrical system to go wrong, but a driver would have to be deaf or drunk not to be aware of a ‘hit’. (having said that, I wonder what was the driver’s excuse at Connel if – as it would appear – he ploughed on for some distance after hitting the first girder?)
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There is also a physical bar to warn drivers but with the lorries stereo on full you might not notice it even if you do hit it. Drivers are supposed to know what the height of their vehicles are and read the signs.
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In that case perhaps a reliable stop light system with flashing ‘overheight’ warning would be the obvious failsafe system – the flashing speed signs at the southern entrance to Inveraray and on Great Western Road near Drumchapel are very noticeable.
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As linnhe says, there is a recently-installed system of vehicle height sensors linked to NADIX-type display boards/flashing lights, but there have been some ‘teething troubles’ with these.
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