Port road closures and poor accessibility will impede Scottish economy
Less than 16 days after the last closure, the A77 has once more been closed to all traffic for up to 12 hours, resulting in a 75-minute detour for traffic using Stena Line’s Loch Ryan Port. The most recent closure overnight on 6[th] November comes on the back of the 24-hr closure of the A77 following severe flooding on 21[st] October when the port was in virtual lockdown mode for over 24 hrs. Although this closure was pre-scheduled to facilitate remedial landslip road works, it now brings to five the number of times one of the main arterial routes to the key ferry ports at Loch Ryan,