Most of the Shop Brae Road (from the sewage treatment works to the road end of Tomatin House) will be closed to traffic for 6 weeks from 2nd September. Apparently Network Rail closed the same bit of road in July to do work on the railway viaduct but didn’t finish the work as planned, so they are coming back next month to complete it.
Network Rail have given little information or notice. For what it’s worth, here is the original Traffic Order for the job :
“The Council has made The Highland Council (Temporary Traffic Prohibition On The U2829 Tomatin – Balvraid, Branch Towards Upper Inverbrough And Raigbeg – Findhorn Bridge Road (Part), Inverness-shire, During Bridge Maintenance Works) Order 2019 under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, and related legislation, to temporarily prohibit traffic from using the U2829 between its junction with the private access leading to Tomatin House to its easternmost junction with the sewage treatment works.
The prohibition is required to enable bridge maintenance works to be safely carried out and will apply when a prohibition is identified by means of one or more of the appropriate temporary traffic signs as prescribed in the ‘Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016(b)’. The Order shall come into effect on Monday 8 July and shall remain in force until Friday 16 August 2019. Any enquires should be addressed to The Highland Council, Community Services, 94 Diriebught Road, Inverness, IV2 3QN”
