Work to restore a crumbling bridge close to Croftamie is to lastly start subsequent month, ten months after the route was shut.
Merchants and villagers have been left pissed off by the period of time the Catterburn Bridge, on the A809, has been out of bounds, with enterprise house owners reporting a dip in earnings as they miss out on the busy vacationer season.
Stirling Council have this week confirmed that a contractor for the restore challenge has now been instated and the work will get underway in August.
A spokesperson mentioned: “The council can verify that a contractor has been appointed and work is scheduled to start out at Catterburn subsequent month.
“The local people have been knowledgeable and the council will concern a wider replace on each the Catterburn and Branshogle bridges shortly.”
The highway there was shut, from the B834 to the A811, after a bit of wall and pavement partially collapsed on September 30 final 12 months.
The bridge sits on the Glasgow aspect of the village and is the principle hyperlink between Glasgow and East Loch Lomondside.
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In November final 12 months, we informed how merchants have been fearing that they may see takings drop by as much as 40 per cent because of the extended bridge closure.
Enterprise house owners in Drymen, Croftamie, Balmaha and the East Loch Lomond space mentioned the closure, coupled with the Branshogle Bridge closure, close to Balfron, has introduced companies to their knees and so they shaped a neighborhood motion group comprising of 80-per cent of the companies.
Calling themselves Enterprise Motion Roads and Bridges (BARB), the buying and selling group mentioned that the crumbling infrastructure in west Stirlingshire was having a direct detrimental impact on native companies and the broader neighborhood.
The Observer understands that a “resident and enterprise engagement occasion” is because of happen subsequent week.
The drop-in occasion will happen between 4pm and 8pm on Thursday, July 28, on the However and Ben Café, in Essential Avenue, Croftamie.
The cafe sits a brief distance from the highway closure and solely opened on the outset of the Covid pandemic.
Proprietor Barbara Cunningham final month informed the Observer: “We depend on passing commerce and we might depend on a busy summer season season to get us by the quieter winter months, however the closure implies that there isn't a passing commerce.”
Branshogle Bridge, on the B818, stays out of bounds after closing in March final 12 months when it partially collapsed. Council contractors then feared that a additional collapse was probably and a full highway closure was put in place.
In April this 12 months, we informed how the completion of restore works on the construction was to be delayed by greater than two months.
Work to restore the construction started again in November final 12 months and Stirling Council estimated that the programme of repairs could be accomplished by early April. Nonetheless, in April it was confirmed that the work had hit a collection of delays and was due for completion in late June. The route has but to re-open with Stirling Council this week saying it might present an replace “shortly”.