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If your reporter had looked at a road map before going ahead and saying that the Cromarty Firth bridge cuts out one of the main diversions on the coastal route north of Inverness ("Boost for A9 users", CM, April 20), you wouldn't have made such a ludicrous statement.
The new bridge is quite useless until the bridge is constructed over the Kessock Narrows between Inverness and the Black Isle; furthermore the link road between the Cromarty Bridge and the Kessock Bridge has yet to be built.
The Cromarty Bridge offers absolutely io advantage, for the B9163 is too narrow to take heavy commercial traffic.
Work has recently started on the piers of the Kessock Bridge, which will not be completed until autumn 1981 at the earliest. It will be a high-level structure very similar to the Erskine Bridge on the Clyde. A high level because of navigation to Inverness Harbour and the Caledonian Canal, The Cromarty is a low-level multi-arch structure.
A. A. BURNETT-LEYS, Thurso, Caithness