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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Aviemore is cur­rently an unpleas­ant place to walk and cycle around. Pave­ments are too nar­row for safe com­fort­able walk­ing, in par­tic­u­lar dur­ing busy tour­ist peri­ods. Cyc­ling also feels unsafe and dif­fi­cult as there are too many cars either passing through the centre or park­ing in the middle of the vil­lage. There are very few green spaces and not many places to sit.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Exten­sion of safer walk­ing and cyc­ling from Aviemore to Inver­druie. The cur­rent pave­ment is too nar­row for safe/​comfortable walk­ing and the speed and volume of cars on the road makes it feel unsafe and uncom­fort­able. As this is a busy route for tour­ists, improve­ments to encour­age walk­ing and cyc­ling would improve the exper­i­ence and might even reduce car use.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Aviemore hosts a much lar­ger pop­u­la­tion (sum­mer and winter) than its core pop­u­la­tion. It needs this invest­ment in its infra­struc­ture if it is t remain an attract­ive place to both live in and visit.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Sur­fa­cing and light­ing of under­passes and paths is very import­ant. improved light­ing of paths more gen­er­ally is import­ant for year round use.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Sup­port

1. Please explain why

My daugh­ter is a full time wheel­chair user and get­ting about can be quite chal­len­ging. Look­ing at dropped kerbs and access­ible paths would bene­fit us as a family.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Access­ible play­grounds. There are abso­lutely none in the Cairngorms. There is just one bas­ket swing I can place my daugh­ter on. She abso­lutely loves swings and play parks in gen­er­al. We’d love to see more access­ible equip­ment in play­grounds espe­cially if there are new green/​play spaces being added.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Sup­port

1. Please explain why

It equal­ises the trans­port. Cur­rently the car is ​‘king’. These pro­pos­als will help to get oth­er forms of trans­ports more mainstream

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

What about E scoot­ers and mobil­ity vehicles ? Aviemore, along with the rest of the Nation­al Park has an increas­ing age­ing pop­u­la­tion. Future trends and demo­graph­ic have to be taken into consideration

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly do not support

1. Please explain why

I feel totally excluded by these plans. When we moved to Aviemore we delib­er­ately chose a house adja­cent to a bus route; this bus route has now been com­pletely with­drawn, leav­ing me, now on my own, with no oppor­tun­ity to get into the vil­lage without using my car. I am not wheel­chair bound, but at 79 years of age my days of cyc­ling are long over. I would find it impossible to walk back from the vil­lage with any shop­ping, although I con­sider myself to be fairly mobile for my age, I do have major health prob­lems. These pro­pos­als vic­tim­ise me! I care about envir­on­ment­al issues, but I am part of the envir­on­ment too!! With Aviemore being a tour­ist vil­lages busi­nesses depend upon vis­it­ors arriv­ing in their cars; mak­ing the vil­lage too car unfriendly will increase con­ges­tion and make life more chal­len­ging for loc­als. The lack of joined up think­ing here is unbe­liev­able; to can­cel busses to a large area of the vil­lage, and then to try insist that people use pub­lic trans­port is just plain crazy.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Not dir­ectly con­nec­ted with then pro­pos­als, but I would ask you to con­sider the situ­ation of access to Lag­ganty­gown Cemetery. In recent years web sites, and the tour­ist office encour­ages people to park in the tiny car park at Lag­ganty­gown to go wild swim­ming etc on Loch Vaa. This cre­ates prob­lems. My hus­band is bur­ied in that cemetery, which is a long way out of the vil­lage. There is no pos­sible foot­path even if I could walk that far! But, on sunny days it can be impossible to vis­it the cemetery as that car park is full to over­flow­ing, some­time with a minibus and trail­er tak­ing up a large amount of space. There are times, such as his birth­day, when it is import­ant for me to vis­it him, but it is bey­ond heart­break­ing to have to turn around and return home because there is nowhere to park. Surely a couple of spaces could be strictly ded­ic­ated to cemetery users? The sign there pro­hib­it­ing overnight park seems to be

over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Need to pro­mote safe healthy travel around Aviemore. Ditch­ing the car for the bene­fit of all

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly do not support

1. Please explain why

People in the Nation­al Park use their cars daily because of the geo­graph­ic­al dis­tance between areas

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Upgrade the roads because they are more import­ant for every­one liv­ing, work­ing and vis­it­ing the area

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Cur­rently Aviemore doesn’t work very well for any­one except car drivers — and doesn’t even work well for them. It’s been sub­ject to ran­dom devel­op­ments over the years which don’t work well togeth­er. This is a great oppor­tun­ity to look at things afresh and in an over­all con­text before yet anoth­er major devel­op­ment inflicts more problems.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

I think the imme­di­ate areas out­with the pro­posed areas for change need to be con­sidered with a light­er touch. A clas­sic example is the link between the Old Spey Bridge past the Old Bridge Inn and under the rail­way up to pave­ment. It would bring big bene­fits to loc­al users and vis­it­ors if this was tidied up to the same stand­ard as these proposals.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Neut­ral

1. Please explain why

I like the idea of cycle paths but sadly many cyc­lists would still not use them. I see this every day when trav­el­ling back and forth from Kin­gussie. Also, where would the nearest park­ing be for the busi­nesses of the Harkai and

Tamanna? Why remove the only park­ing there is? Not sens­ible and will res­ult in loss of busi­ness. No one will park near Tesco or Myr­tle­field to walk to Harkais for chips.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Cars aren’t going any­where, that is fact. Sign­post­ing of walk­ing routes, espe­cially the ones for ram­blers need improv­ing. Some­times are not existant. Where is the fabled Aviemore cir­cu­lar? Please have con­sid­er­a­tion for loc­als, not just for tourists.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Bet­ter act­ive travel facil­it­ies will make Aviemore clean­er, green­er and more attract­ive for vis­it­ors and locals.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Improve orbit­al cycle path between high range and pony field I.E at back of Mc Donald’s resort.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject over­all? Strongly support

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over 2 yrs ago 2

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Aviemore is dom­in­ated by traffic, and fairly often by large dies­el vehicles. Any­thing to make it easi­er for people to get into the cen­ter without driv­ing or act­ively dis­cour­ages people to take their cars there has to be considered.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

2. Get­ting rid of the layby park­ing spaces along Grampi­an Road should be a pri­or­ity. These are the cause of con­ges­tion at busy times. There are 5 oth­er car­parks, are these not enough?

3. The entrance to the Tesco car park should be moved round the back for the same reason.
4. There is nowhere to sit where you are not look­ing at traffic. There is nowhere to have a cof­fee where you are not look­ing at cars.
5. Shared paths may be cheap­er, but ped­es­trains wear head­phones and move at dif­fer­ent speeds to bikes.
6. Why is the Pet­rol sta­tion allowed to be a mini supermarket/​coffee shop? It lit­er­ally blocks the whole road as people shop after they have filled up and no one can get passed.
7. Can Dal­faber road be upgraded so that bikes and pes­destri­ans can be com­plet­ley away from cars and motorhomes? Its a far more pleas­ant walk.
8. The best move that could be made is reroute traffic through what is cur­rently the McDon­alds hotel com­plex. I’m sure its not an easy fix, but it would revolu­tion­ise the town cen­ter, increase busi­ness oppor­tun­it­ies and

foot­fall and maybe encour­age people to linger around the shops rather run­ning from the con­ges­tion, fumes and noise. View pro­pos­al Share Reply

over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Sup­port

1. Please explain why

Mak­ing a safe cycle route around the extremely busy roads of Aviemore can only encour­age less car use. The out­lines are well thought through, I was delighted to get detailed answers to all my ques­tions, and wish the team the best of luck with their present­a­tion to the board.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

Get High­land Coun­cil onside, going off doing their own thing in the middle of this plan is a waste of tax­pay­ers money.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Poten­tial for much improved path and cycle net­work in Aviemore. Presently very piece­meal and not linked up View pro­pos­al Share Reply

over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly do not support

1. Please explain why

Bi-dir­ec­tion­al cycle routes: strongly against: It is a lot of money to spend to enable the fears of people that are not happy to cycle on roads with cars and a lot of money to spend to enable many car drivers to drive in a way that people feel scared about. Are you mak­ing those of us that are not scared of cyc­ling on roads co-depend­ent on oth­er people’s fears? And for many of us that are con­fid­ent on the road and hap­pily ride road bikes we’ll not be using the cycle route any­way, too many curves, junc­tions etc. We’ll just carry on cruis­ing down the roads. Dropped kerbs, filling in gaps in pave­ments etc: sup­port. Get on with it; why are you con­sult­ing? JBDI.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

The most import­ant cyc­ling routes in the area are between com­munit­ies, sort­ing out ​‘death alley’ as cyc­lists call part of the route between Aviemore and Grant­own should be way ahead of stick­ing a bike line down grampi­an road in your pri­or­ity list and far bet­ter value for money. And also the Alvie bends by Loch Alvie: road bikes nev­er going to use the spey­side way which is ***** for any bikes, so those curves need sort­ing out.

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over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

Avimeore as a whole is not con­du­cive to relaxed walk­ing or cyc­ling. Cur­rently strongly sup­ports cars (most of which drive too fast along Grampi­an Road and Dal­faber Drive is a racetrack).

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

20mph speed lim­it at both entrances to Aviemore View pro­pos­al Share Reply

over 2 yrs ago

1. What do you think of the pro­ject overall?

Strongly sup­port

1. Please explain why

These designs will make walk­ing and cyc­ling in Aviemore much more appeal­ing! and much much safer.

1. Do you have any oth­er feed­back or ideas you would like us to consider?

I’d love to see the cen­ter of Aviemore com­pletely ped­es­tri­an­ized. Giv­ing more space for out­door seat­ing and events. It’s proven that people spend more money in these spaces! It worked at the old Aviemore Cen­ter so it can work

again! Thanks for all the hard work on this, it’s greatly appre­ci­ated. I really look for­ward to see­ing what Aviemore of the future looks like! View pro­pos­al Share Reply

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