SCOTLAND is home to four of the UK’s five most expensive abandoned main roads, according to research.
Bristol Street Motors, part of the same group as Scottish dealers Macklin Motors, has mapped 20 UK ghost roads that are no longer used by drivers and slowly being reclaimed by nature.
It then calculated that if the same stretches had been built today, the UK would have wasted more than £156million – and nearly £84million of that would have been on five routes north of the Border.
Topping the table is 2.4 miles of the old A83 in Glen Kinglass in Argyll, abandoned in the 1970s, that would cost £30.2million to construct now.
Second place goes to 1.95 miles of the A830 at Druimindarroch, near Arisaig, closed in 2009 and now priced at £23.6million. A 1.3-mile section of the old A82 in Glen Coe, replaced in the early 1930s, comes third with a £15.6million tag.
Estimated at £14.3million, fifth place in the UK league goes to 1.2 miles of the A894 at Duartmore Bridge in Sutherland, last used in 1979. The final Scottish listing in the 20 routes is a £2.14million, 0.18-mile stretch of the A87 in Glen Sheil replaced in the 1970s.
Go to https://www.bristolstreet.co.uk/news/road-to-nowhere-explore-the-uks-abandoned-roads/ to find out more.
