We went for a short walk up Beinn na Muice in Glen Strathfarrar at the weekend. On the way back we stopped off at the dam at the end of Loch Monar.
I took a panoramic set of photos from the bottom of the dam, comprising 41 handheld shots, which I have processed into this [...]
Posted at 17:06 on Tuesday 8th July 2008 in Engineering, Outdoors, Photos tagged dam, Engineering, hydro, panorama, photo, with one comment.
As I was saying in my response to Simon’s post about SNP priorities, dualling the A9 is not the first priority, getting freight off the roads and onto the railways should take precedence. It appears that they read my blog!
It was announced this week that the Scottish Government is giving funding to Hauliers to [...]
Posted at 15:57 on Saturday 24th May 2008 in Engineering, Politics tagged A9, commerce, Engineering, freight, Politics, rail, Scotland, tesco, with no comments.
The BBC News team appear to be confused over which sections of the A9 road are single or dual carriageway. The article is about the frequency of accidents on the single carriageway sections of the road, however the photograph that accompanies the article is of the dual carriageway section at Findhorn. It is also filed [...]
Posted at 20:55 on Thursday 8th May 2008 in Engineering tagged A9, BBC, Engineering, Highland, news, road, Scotland, transport, website, with no comments.
Simon has been writing over at his blog about the fact that we are now one year on from the election of the SNP (minority) government, and what the have and have not achieved.
I must say, I have to disagree with some of his priorities…
Scrapping the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL)—this was a great idea. [...]
Posted at 22:40 on Friday 2nd May 2008 in Engineering, Politics tagged A9, Engineering, Forth Bridge, Highland, Politics, Railway, with 3 comments.
An interesting article about the (lack of) disaster in the response to the flooding across central England last week If this is a national disaster, I’m a tomato—Times Online .
While it does not solve the problems of houses at risk, it does put the floods into perspective.
Roll on a considered response to the floods [...]
Posted at 19:02 on Thursday 2nd August 2007 in Engineering tagged Engineering, England, environmental, flooding, government, Politics, with no comments.