Call for urgent repairs to access to Galloway beauty spot
dailyrecord.co.ukA call has been made for an access road to one of Galloway’s most popular nature-based attractions to be urgently repaired.
Thousands of visitors make the trip to NatureScot’s Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve every year. But winter rains and frost have left the single-track route to the visitor centre at Dromore Farm badly rutted and potholed.
According to local resident Mike Edwards, the road margin has disintegrated at one spot creating a giant water-filled crater.
He fears without a proper fix cars and bicycles could be damaged by the crumbling hazard. Mr Edwards told the News: “It has been there a long time and it’s getting worse. “It’s always been a bad corner – 10 or so years ago a council gritter lorry got stuck in the ditch. “They had to fix the road but since then it has collapsed in. “They need to fox the drain next to it because the pothole is part of the drain now. “I would not want top go through that pothole on a bike and a low-slung car would scrape. “There’s 20,000 visitors to the centre and every year it gets busier.” Just beyond Dromore is the old railway viaduct over the Big Water of Fleet – another popular attraction and overnight stop.
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