This afternoon Aberdeenshire Council confirmed an emergency road closure request by Police Scotland affecting the C12K Netherley-Cookney road for a period of 21 days backdated to 6 December.
This is in the interests of public safety. The cause is the leak in the Forties oil pipeline which has been featured in the media.
The diversion route shown in the council map below puzzles me though as the Netherley – Lairhillock – Portlethen road is supposed to be closed during the day for road repairs this week. I have queried that. Repairs would be tad difficult in these weather conditions. There were “Road Closed” signs at the A90 junction earlier today for the diversion route.
UPDATE 13 December – The roads service tell me that “the contractor on the C13K who has the closure in place have been instructed to only work on the section from the A90 to the C24K Quoscies junction so that the C12K diversion can use the C13K.”
The C13K is only to be closed between the hours of 9am and 3pm.
