Our Man In Westminster
The Editor (Letters)
The Inverness Courier
Inverness, Scotland
Not Published
Sir,
I write as a non-political-party member voter in Inverness, who can foresee the merits of Scotland becoming an independent country with the continuing lineage head of the current combined Kingdom, to ask that the next time your “Man in Westminster” Liberal Democrat MP Danny Alexander knocks Transport Scotland in your paper the Inverness Courier for rejecting as being inappropriate as a gateway to the city his “tart up” TLR road plans as an Inverness bypass, he must include a mapped-out drawing showing we the gullible readers of his desired road construction.
As a Westminster man, the bucks rests in his hands, not in the SNP, nor with the Scottish Government, nor Highland Council to give consideration to the alternative Inverness Nessie Monster Bridge bypass proposals that unlike what the TLR scheme says it is as a local matter, the Nessie Monster Bridge alternative is a highway encircling the city with minimal inhabitant disturbance. Now That’s a BYPASS
The shame of his article does not show that the Scottish Government has prevented him from committing a blunder of enormous proportions in refusing funding for his proposals that would create a road snarl up at Tomnahurich by the Caledonian Canal for centuries to come by his blinkered idea of a TLR called bypass.
By working in London, can Alexander honestly state that Inverness has lots of deadlocked traffic jams justifying a bypass?
If Inverness is one day furnished with the Nessie Monster Bridge bypass, or any other named bypass that really is a bypass then let him gain the credit for it at our pleasure. Well, the chap does try, and wants to be loved.
For a direct link from London, England, to Thurso, Scotland, then the said "Nessie Monster Bridge" is essential.
Ian King
Kings Jazz Review
Friday the 24th of April 2009