haudagain
Time for decisive action on Haudagain
04/06/13 19:04 Filed in: Blog
Can you imagine any other international energy city prevaricating about a road bottleneck that has been estimated to be costing the local economy between £15 and £30 million a year? The answer is obvious, surely.
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Read More...Aberdeen stalled in the slow lane
28/07/10 19:40 Filed in: Granite Chips
The recent letter by Aberdeen area business leaders to Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson is a plea that most of us in Aberdeen City and Shire will relate to.
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Read More...Action needed now to secure UK oil industry
15/03/10 18:08 Filed in: Granite Chips
The message delivered to the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) that action is needed now to encourage investment in the North Sea oil and gas industry needs to be heeded by our politicians.
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Read More...Bus lanes fines increase? Let's have a rethink.
08/08/08 09:48 Filed in: Granite Chips
So Aberdeen City Council plans to increase fines for driving in bus lanes to £80. What is the justification? Where is the proof that by strangling traffic flow on our arterial routes we are providing benefit for our citizens... the electorate? Read More...
Haudagain action? But is it flawed?
19/06/08 19:20 Filed in: Granite Chips
Are we actually going to see some action over one of Scotland's worst traffic black spots? The infamous Haudagain roundabout has been accused of costing the country between £15 and £30 million in lost time, delayed deliveries and wasted fuel, let alone the undoubted diversion of trade away from Aberdeen. Read More...
Transport hits the headlines in Aberdeen, yet again
31/08/07 16:15 Filed in: Granite Chips
Transport seems to be constantly in the headlines in Aberdeen. Perhaps it is no wonder considering how our transport infrastructure was largely ignored during the period when the North Sea Oil industry baled out UK plc. Read More...
Trump's $1 billion Aberdeen golf plan
27/11/06 11:55 Filed in: Granite Chips
Donald Trump's organisation has submitted its plans for what Trump says will be the world's best golf course on the Menie site just north of Aberdeen. Read More...
Haudagain needs a flyover
27/03/07 11:46 Filed in: Granite Chips
In response to the Evening Express transport survey in which 55% of all respondents identified the Haudagain roundabout (junction of the A90 south, A90 north and A96) as the worst traffic blackspot in Aberdeen and the call by 75% of respondents for a flyover or underpass, the paper reports Transport Minister Tavish Scott as saying that the option is being considered. Read More...