The A9

[deevlash]

Im going to Rockness next weekend from Glasgow so was assuming I'd be going up the A9 as usual for a trip up north, I heard its a bit of a 'mare with roadworks just now though, is it? If so would it be worth slogging up the A82 instead?

[SSC!]

There is a fair delay at Ralia (sp). You used to be able to cut through it and newtonmore and the likes but the roadworks now blocks the cut off route.

Bit more senic if you take the other route anyway as everyman and his dog will be on the A9 that weekend.

Cheers

Ave

[Nicholas Blair]

Time your journey to get there later - was up at the weekend and no queues to mention.

[craig2003]

If you come up the A82 take a left at Fort Augustus and head through Errogie, its a far quieter route, awesome drive and you come in to Dores from the other side missing all the Rockness traffic from Inverness

[alfa pint]

A82 all up alongside Loch Lomond is chockers with roadworks too. And they start again on Rannoch moor.....took me an extra 30 mins on what is normally an hour's drive to get up to Glencoe on Saturday.

Take the train? doh! they fall off their lines this week....

[a11y_m]

The A82's a bloody nightmare at the moment too - roadworks caused a bit of a delay somewhere (north of Tyndrum IIRC) when I was up at Fort William at the weekend. We headed north to Spean Bridge, along the Dalwhinnie road then onto the A9 purely to avoid the A82 for that reason, and it was fine. Well, we also avoided the A82 on Sunday evening because of the utter tts I expected to see after the MTBing World Cup at Fort Bill...

[deevlash]

sounds like the A9 is winning then. Anyone got a helicopter theyd like to lend me?

[sherman]

The A9 is fine. 5.5 hours from Linlithgow - Scrabster (including lunch/fuel stop). The roadworks were quite free flowing. o on tt

[bigblock]

deevlash said:

sounds like the A9 is winning then. Anyone got a helicopter theyd like to lend me?

You can borrow mine, although there's not much room for the girlfriend

[Who me ?]

craig2003 said:

If you come up the A82 take a left at Fort Augustus and head through Errogie, its a far quieter route, awesome drive and you come in to Dores from the other side missing all the Rockness traffic from Inverness

Thought it was a right ,but nice road ,though single in places ,but reasonably straight -I liked it a lot better than the Newtonmore way -but again that's my sort of road .

[Davel]

bigblock said:

deevlash said:

sounds like the A9 is winning then. Anyone got a helicopter theyd like to lend me?

You can borrow mine, although there's not much room for the girlfriend

She could sit on your knee!

[melv]

Davel said:

bigblock said:

deevlash said:

sounds like the A9 is winning then. Anyone got a helicopter theyd like to lend me?

You can borrow mine, although there's not much room for the girlfriend

She could sit on your knee!

That's why it's called a joystick.....

Those roadworks on the A9 were a PITA a few weeks ago, even showed up occasionaly as delays on SatNav -just depends on your timing I guess...

[istoo]

if you want a nice drive, go A93-A939, longer by quite a bit but will be smiling by the end!

[Celt]

I was going Paisley to rockness, ended up going up Fort William way. I left at about 9 am on friday was up there in just over 4 hours. Didn't hit any rush hour traffic. It took me 9 hours to get back last night taking the A9. I was humped to had to pull over for a sleep a few times. Was a good drive back down. First time I have been on the A9, thought it was a nice road. I am going throught the 40mph average speed cameras at Stirling fairly regularly and I hate them abit more every time I use that stretch!