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therefore logically some extra resources will be required.

Think that is why the page was started to highlight the issues, but folk should still be taking their own personal responsibility, if the bins are over full take the fucking stuff away with you, ain't rocket science.

 

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Another posting from tonight.....

I would just like to re-iterate Guy Kerry’s post with reference to his business being on the NC500 route. Our shop which we have closed was on the route. He is factually correct, tourism did not benefit us at all. In fact it was a tiresome bind, requesting water for their motor homes, camping bottles, cycling bottles,hikers wanting my toilet constantly and arguing with me when I refused. Not even looking around the shop. The other problem being the locals just assumed the tourists would keep us in business. In fact I was glad to see the back of the summer season. Yes saying that’s not a Scottish accent ��. Anyway that’s my experience. Maybe we could have a survey and ask other local businesses how the NC500 has benefited them. I know this might be going off on a tangent but people saying we should be grateful, don’t bite the hand that feeds us is way off the mark.

 

[adm1]

You're almost contradicting what you are agreeing with, Udders is suggesting the council aren't doing their job properly by not emptying the bins.

Almost. But I'm not suggesting it's all the council's fault - more the fault of hundreds of peasants who think it's OK to leave their shite everywhere. They brought all of the rubbish with them. Admittedly, it wasn't rubbish when they brought it, but it's mainly packaging and when empty can be made much smaller than when full. Not difficult to to compress to a manageable size and transport to a viable waste disposal area.

And yes - the council should probably be doing more. But it's going to be difficult and slow in some of the remote areas to a) find more contractors to empty bins and b) get more budget to pay for them to do so.

At the end of the day, people should have more respect for others. They are presumably "doing the NC500" to see some beautiful countryside, so why leave it covered in shite when they are done?

I dunno, but I would start imposing some severe penalties for littering. Maybe thumbscrews for a first offence and then castration for any subsequent ones. Not just near the NC500 but nationwide. There's just no need to put up with that kind of laziness. Which bit of "Please take your litter home with you" do people find difficult to understand or comply with?

 

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I dunno, but I would start imposing some severe penalties for littering. Maybe thumbscrews for a first offence and then castration for any subsequent ones. Not just near the NC500 but nationwide. There's just no need to put up with that kind of laziness. Which bit of "Please take your litter home with you" do people find difficult to understand or comply with?

Fact is, very few people litter when there are others who can see it being done and in such a remote area, and as busy as it is just now it will still be very easy to leave stuff without anyone seeing you do so.

 

[Khulu]

Nowt wrong with Glen Loth!

Luverly little quiet road - just you & sheep what more could a Welshman ask for? This was taken in 2017 . . .

Steve T

That was one section of good tarmac and there were only about 800m. of it in total!
The surface was 99% pot holes, gravel and thick weeds in the middle.

It must have been better in 2017.

 

[NeverRodeBefore]

I didn't read this on here, so it might not be true, but according to the BBC website, Trowels are to be left in 90 lay-bys in part of the Highlands to help tackle problems with outdoor toileting.

Lochbroom Community Council is also to install signs directing visitors to where there are public toilets.

Chairman Topher Dawson said the trowels would offer an "emergency, last resort" for those who desperately need the loo to dig a hole and bury the waste.

He said some of the many "welcome visitors" came to area without knowing there would be few facilities.

I wonder how many will think it a good idea to take a trowel home as a souvenir of their highland visit? Pity they don't think it's appropriate to take their rubbish home as well though..

 

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53734992

 

[Udders]

Beautiful day in Perth today!

 

[Tractors are go]

Eastlovia is sunny.

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[Udders]

I’m now in a company called Tradstocks just outside Thornhill. I forgot just how nice it is round here!

 

[Blackal]

Eastlovia is sunny.

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The mist around Kilamanjedburgh has cleared from this morning also............

 

[Khulu]

We had hammering rain early morning then mist and then cooking sun since midday!

 

[gerarddwatts]

Off to Tongue tomorrow...I'll report on return....



PS.....definitely not camping tho'.....oh no....

Weeeell...

Went by car from here over the Lecht to Ullapool, lunch in the highly recommended Seafood Shack, on to Scourie and then toward Durness. then north of Kinlochbervie where it goes to single track is where the nightmare begins! Every patch of grass has a m/home on it, most folk don't know how to drive on these roads,; the days of single track roads is past now for that volume of traffic, but I can't see it changing any time soon. The whole place is best avoided in the summer. Came down from Tongue to Altnaharra and Lairg today, hardly saw a thing....not on the NC500!! Sad.

The only thing that will save the place now is the midge!

 

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There has been a gate erected to stop vehicles driving to the beech at Scourie and locked, would be interesting to hear what the access officer thinks about such a thing as I believe it is still part of the public highway.

 

[ShakeyGS]

Weeeell...

Went by car from here over the Lecht to Ullapool, lunch in the highly recommended Seafood Shack, on to Scourie and then toward Durness. then north of Kinlochbervie where it goes to single track is where the nightmare begins! Every patch of grass has a m/home on it, most folk don't know how to drive on these roads,; the days of single track roads is past now for that volume of traffic, but I can't see it changing any time soon. The whole place is best avoided in the summer. Came down from Tongue to Altnaharra and Lairg today, hardly saw a thing....not on the NC500!! Sad.

The only thing that will save the place now is the midge!

Lovely road

 

[Rusty]

I have been to Scotland a few times on the GS and I am really looking forward to my first NC500 ride in 3 weeks time .. up from the south coast to enjoy beautiful scenery and really friendly locals ... well that is what I usually find !

 

[DevonAl]

I travelled along that road and across to the Orkneys via Scrabster about 5-6 yrs ago in my motorhome, absolutely stunning drive, I was hoping to do a return trip in mid Sept, I hope it stays empty and the trowels unused!! At least this post has given me an idea of which parts of Scotland to avoid.

Al.

 

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Lovely road

What ! Possibly the dullest most boring road in the country, open moorland for as far as the eye can see with very little scenery, just goes to show how different tastes are. (I assume you were referring to the Lairg/Altnaharra/Tongue road)

 

[crumbles]

I have been to Scotland a few times on the GS and I am really looking forward to my first NC500 ride in 3 weeks time .. up from the south coast to enjoy beautiful scenery and really friendly locals ... well that is what I usually find !

Up from Devon also in a couple off weeks...

 

[Khulu]

I was planning to ride down to Glen Lyon, on to Glen Coe today but it's pea soup here so that's today's plan buggered!!!!