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Cash boost for fragile Ar 11 timber route
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MORE THAN Lim is to be spent on improving roads for timber hauliers in Argyll. The money, which will come from the £13m Strategic Timber Transport Fund (STTF), will be used to upgrade the Tarbert bypass and improve nearly 10km of forest road on the Dunoon timber haul route.
The improvements are expected to cut journey times and remove thousands of timber trucks each year from the town centres of Tarbert and Dunoon.
Calum McFadyen of Campbeltown-based timber haulier McFadyens Transport believes that improving the roads will be good for hauliers because it means timber routes will be easier to use, and because it will answer residents' complaints about trucks running through built-up areas: 'It should help keep the peace."
Forestry MSP Rhona Brankin says the infrastructure improvements are designed to help prevent damage to some relatively fragile roads.