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 [...]
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Posted 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 [...]
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Posted 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. [...]
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Posted 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 [...]
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Posted on Thursday 2nd August 2007 in Engineering tagged Engineering, England, environmental, flooding, government, Politics, with no comments.
Hopefully Richard Branson’s $25m climate challenge will do for carbon sequestration what the Ansari X Prize has done for private spaceflight.
Millions of pounds are on offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Whether we can successfully engineer our way out of [...]
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Posted on Sunday 11th February 2007 in Engineering, Science tagged climate change, energy, Engineering, environmental, Science, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
