Overnight Lights on Comrie Road, Crieff; Owls Complain of Being Held Up
Overnight work until Saturday morning. Nocturnal wildlife demands a diversion.
Roadworks by night: lit up like a Christmas display, but less festive. Photo: Imeao, “Roadworks in October 2021 in Belgrade at night”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
Overnight temporary traffic lights are in place on the A85 Comrie Road in Crieff until the early hours of Saturday, with crews working through the evenings.
The arrangement has been warmly welcomed by daytime drivers and coolly received by Crieff’s owls, who say they have been “stuck at the red for ages, and we have places to be, mostly a field”.
A spokes-badger said the nocturnal community “appreciated the work” but asked that the lights be “a wee bit less bright, it’s like a stage show out there”.
By day the road is open as normal — the best kind of roadworks: the ones that happen while you’re asleep.
The real story: Proposed road works (Perth & Kinross Council)
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