Let's face the music and dance...

We don't like to do things too quickly, here in the Highlands.

[photomax7]

If we get another winter like the last one 3-digit weeks would be my guess...hope it won't impact on the Kerrowdown too much.

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[RGlasel]

The sign doesn't indicate which May 3rd that construction will commence, but it has been more than 85 weeks since this photo was posted. Surely, the work is now complete?

[Kerrowdown]

What can you but grin ??

Fire someone's backside in high places, for allowing that to happen is the short answer...

Sounds like to me, you need a Claymore wielding Highlander, dispensing summery justice over there... we could come to an arrangement and loan you one.

[Kerrowdown]

doesn't indicate which May 3rd that construction will commence

Aye it was May 2016 it all kicked off...

Surely, the work is now complete?

We're still waiting for that bridge... and the final completion of a road, but that will no doubt be a different contract, so the sign will be correct.

But for the average punter... that means the "jobs not done"

[Kerrowdown]

If we get another winter like the last one 3-digit weeks would be my guess...hope it won't impact on the Kerrowdown too much.

I'd get them out grafting away, just like everyone else to do, get on with it, no excuses.

[reh321]

We have a road project that has been stalled all summer - the latest news is that they are awaiting a delivery of gravel for the shoulders

[normhead]

We have a road project that has been stalled all summer - the latest news is that they are awaiting a delivery of gravel for the shoulders

Where I am, they design the projects so there's enough gravel from blasting rock where they lower the road going over hills, to fill in as much as they can of the valleys. A blasting crew and a portable stone crusher is all you need.

That crushed stone that comes from that operation is the best you can use for roads.

[reh321]

Where I am, the design the projects so there's enough gravel from blasting rock there they lower the road going over hills, to fill in as much as they can of the valleys. A blasting crew and a portable stone crusher is all you need.

That crushed stone that comes from that operation is the best you can use for roads.

We have several {closed} quarries in the area, but we have to mine to get rock.
Any lowering of a road involves bulldozers removing soil that is used elsewhere to raise the road.
I live in a city surrounded by corn fields - this area was a combination of forest and swamp before Europeans settled here.

[Kerrowdown]

are awaiting a delivery of gravel for the shoulders

Plenty of that here... you want some?

[Kerrowdown]

A blasting crew and a portable stone crusher is all you need

Don't you go stopping my Scottish export drive... before it's even started.

[Kerrowdown]

Europeans settled here.

So we helped out there then... rid you of another swamp.

[greenbaron]

Love this sign

[reh321]

Plenty of that here... you want some?

Bedford County, maybe 250 miles south of here, was a major source of the limestone blocks used for building structures like the Empire State Building. They, and others, produce gravel as a side product. Our state has lots of limestone under much of it ... this inability to procure gravel is inexplicable to many voters around here.

[Kerrowdown]

this inability to procure gravel is inexplicable to many voters around here

Then questions need to asked... get a rebellion going, the Scots are quite good at that, even nowadays.

[reh321]

... get a rebellion going, the Scots are quite good at that, even nowadays.

So are we. My father's grandmother came from Belfast {he had reddish hair}, and my middle name is "Emerson" in honor of her.