YOUR VIEWS: Including the new hotel, issues with bridge signs and at the A82 for the Tomnahurich and Torvean bridge system and is the Scottish independence fight all a matter of respect?
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Fears for legacy impact of new city hotel plans
To have such an ugly new hotel building approved by councillors for Inverness is a tragedy.
Such an ungainly design, completely without sympathy for surrounding buildings will unlikely leave a positive architectural legacy for the city in the coming decades.
Generic and ‘blocky’, it lacks taste or elegance.
Inverness deserves so much better.
What happened to architecture that uses local building materials, reflecting the area it is built in?
James Rorison, Pinewood Court, Inverness.
Signs in need of sorting at swing bridges
The signage on the A82 for the Tomnahurich and Torvean bridge system is inadequate.
Invariably when Tomnahurich bridge closes traffic queues back down Glenurquhart Road.
Yes there is a sign saying “road closed” and “all traffic” but it can be difficult to see in certain lighting conditions and I don’t believe satnavs are updated to take this into account.
Both further back on the Glenurquhart Road approach and also on the western approach into Inverness there needs to be a large sign showing the two bridge system and indicating which one of them is open.
Today every road was blocked, which defeats the whole reason for two bridges.
It needs to say Fort William to the left as well as straight ahead!
And coming the other way it needs to say city centre to the right as well as straight ahead when the bridge is closed.
David M Edes, Brudes Hill, Inverness.
Is the independence fight all a matter of respect?
The recent pro-independence march through Inverness city centre, organised by the All Under One Banner organisation, provoked an amount of debate online.
“Scottish Conservatives need to have a long hard look at their consciences. Can they honestly say that Westminster respects their country of origin? Are the people in charge in London honest upstanding citizens?”
Allan MacKenzie, Dingwall
