If you take the trouble to stop and advise, they respond: “Oh, I’m only a bike/motorcycle/camper van (or whatever) – they’ll let me through.” The response of the other 50 per cent of drivers is split evenly between the, “It is going in the right direction so I will be using it anyway”, and the, “My sat-nav says this is the road to Durness (or wherever it might be ) and I believe my sat-nav before I believe you”.Ī lot of drivers will even ignore signs that say “Road Ahead Closed”, and will crack on regardless. “You do know this is a dead end”, I inquire?Ībout half the time I am greeted with thanks, my words are heeded and the driver will turn around and head back to the main road. I often stop people on a clearly signposted dead-end road heading to the middle of nowhere, and where the tarred surface gives way to a track and then to something resembling a dried up riverbed. Some instructive signs seem to be invisible. We won’t forget in a hurry the signs exhorting people breaking lockdown in 2020 to stay at home, and there are only so many times you can see the “a” on passing place signs changed to an “i” and still find it funny, particularly when there is so much uproar about litter and human waste along the North Coast 500 tourism route.
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