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[pogofish]

The council had been the main authority since the inception of the plan - Which was theirs in the first place. Although it is true they were always a little unclear about what was going to happen at the northern end of it.

Other than administration of national road policy (which the council had to comply with of course), the increased involvement of central government has only happened since the changes in regulation for trunk roads in what, the mid 90s. 2003 was when they finally got seriously involved.

However the issue of funding, with the council paying as little as they can possibly get away with has always been a sticking point - Particularly with the two plans to shove the whole thing back out to an upgraded Bridge of Dee/Anderson Drive in both the 1980s & 1990s - On both those occasions, they had secured a portion of central funding & were trying to minimise their own contribution. One offer lapsed because of council dithering & the other was withdrawn after a public enquiry deemed it utterly inadequate.

Boyack even refers to the Joint Structure Plan in that report - The successor to the Colquhist Plan, a few paragraphs above your link point.

How much help did the campaigners against those particularly cock-eyed plans get from Camphill's neck of the woods?

[Bigsby]

The councils funding it themselves was never a realistic option.

[pogofish]

No, never, not for a proper solution.

Although they did get bloody close to it in the second proposal for the Bridge of Dee but only because they had agreement to fund the bridge rebuilding centrally, leaving only the Stony Roundabout/Andy Drive junction for them to pay for. Nobody really believed the rest of the road upgrades would ever happen. The 80's proposal also had funding for the bridge but failed because the council refused to take-on @3miles of link road.

They only removed the planning reservation for that route about 2-3 yrs ago & guess what, Stuart Milne got straight in there with a plan that includes building a substantial part of what they refused & just a few months ago, they co-opted it into the city plan as a new link to the A90!

[u70jc]

Originally Posted by u70jc

I think Aberdeen needs this new bypass and also more public transport. Not just more buses, but more options: trams, trains, those wee guys that have carriages on their bikes, bring it all back!!

Rickshaws!!! That's what they're called. Aberdeen needs more rickshaws :-)

[pogofish]

Originally Posted by u70jc

Rickshaws!!! That's what they're called. Aberdeen needs more rickshaws :-)

I think you will find that First Bus & the Taxi trade did for them a few years back - They oposed the licencing of a firm who wanted to establish a fleet & forced a council ban that only allows them to go up & down the Prom in summer.

Naturally, nobody has felt it worth trying to work within the new regs since.