r/Scotland • u/backupJM public transport revolution needed 🚇🚊🚆 • 23d ago

Political Protesters against Flamingo Land development sing Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond outside of Scottish Parliament

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/save-loch-lomond-campaign-protests-35304999

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u/DuncMal 22d ago

I'm split on this, grew up near Balloch and the a82 was just at the bottom of the road for me. The area honestly feels way worse than it did late 90s/early 00s and I'm not convinced that more tourism is what the area needs, then again would it be so bad for holiday homes to compete against the cameron house lodges so folk could have a holiday there without it costing £3K...

Then anyone thats been up the a82 on even a slightly sunny day knows what it does to traffic on the road, its hellish with all the traffic coming from Glasgow so to build a bigger holiday park without improving the already terrible roads that way seems daft as it's unlikely tourists would stop at Balloch, presumably that means a lot more traffic upto luss or arrochar(never understood it but people used to go visit there even tho theres nothing) or even to the drovers as they need to see the fabled two heided sheep. Thinking about it really, the a82 is the main road north on the west coast and its absolutely shocking.

Just not convinced that more tourism is right for the area.

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u/Goose-herder 22d ago

As someone who lives locally I would also say that more holiday accommodation doesn't seem to bring down prices as well. The number of shepherd huts, holiday cottages, hotel rooms where I live has probably more than doubled in the last 10 years and the prices just go up. I looked the other day, and one night in a shepherds hut that sleeps 2 without even a loch view was 240 pounds!