The A890/A832 is a horrific road.jabbaboy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 19, 2022 20:09Must admit just come along the A890/A832 from Skye today and parts of it is up there for some of the worst surface I've ever experienced in the UK on a long distance A road. It's in an absolutely shocking state parts of it and I'm surprised a biker hasn't been seriously hurt. https://goo.gl/maps/MYtDkbUC3LSt8J5k6 - that pretty much sums up a large chunk of it and it's similar just outside Garve aswell. Not sure why they're not even making an effort to patch the holes considering that was over a month ago now.owen b wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 21:27 Like most parts of the UK my experience is that the quality of road surfacing in the Highlands is patchy (excuse the pun). There are lengthy sections of excellent standard surfaces eg. much of the A832 west from Garve to Kinlochewe. The A roads on Skye are generally very good or excellent, as is in my recollection the A835 from near Dingwall to Ullapool. Equally there are A roads which are crying out for resurfacing eg. the A82 from the Ballachulish Bridge to the Corran Ferry. The A87 from Invergarry for the first few miles is rather variable too. Some of the unimproved S1 A roads seem to have been left to decay in the expectation that the roads will be replaced by new S2 alignments before the resurfacing becomes essential eg. the S1 section of A832 west of Loch Maree and the S1 section of A890 in Glen Carron. By some distance the worst road surfaces I have encountered in Scotland were not in the Highland region, but on the Isle of Arran. It's five years since I was last there but there were some truly dreadful stretches on the main coast road round the island.
There's been lots of resurfacing on the A87 though including the bit you've mentioned there. It's in great shape, to give credit, as it was a mess a few year back. The S1 section through Stromeferry has been done aswell, it seems they've tried to widen it as much as they can aswell as most of it is S1.5 now.
Google maps sends people from Inverness to Skye along the A890/A832 when the A87 only takes a few minutes longer and is a far better road (probably because it is maintained by BEAR Scotland and not the Highland Council).The A87 has does have a higher deer strike risk at night time but that risk can be reduced by driving at 50mph.
One good side effect of the high fuel price seems to be that it seems to have put off a lot of people driving their large motorhomes up to the north of Scotland. People probably read the stories in the news about having to pay about £2.40 for a litre of diesel at Cluanie and decide the cost is not worth it.