The A83 we know today, suspended on a now unstable precipitous hillside as it approaches the Rest and Be Thankful summit, was built between 1937 and 1941 for very different conditions ("A83 shut again as landslide causes chaos", The Herald, August 2 & Letters, August 3).
It is not fit for purpose any more and never will be so it is entirely sensible that the Scottish Government, which has spent a huge sum of money over the past five years merely keeping it open, is deciding on substantial changes on the section leading up to the summit.
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