Connectivity - Focus North
Key Enabling Activity - Connectivity
This subject is an essential cornerstone for all existing and future modern businesses. It covers all forms of communications, physical and electronic. There are a number of areas that CNSRP believe are essential and need improvement.
- Lead – Transport Scotland
- Removal of the tight hairpin and routing the road around the back of the cemetery
- Project completed 2020
- Lead – Highland Council
- Replacement of the half mile stretch of “floating” road across the blanket peat bog
- Project completed 2018
- Lead – Caithness Transport Forum
- Improve the scheduled flight schedule to Edinburgh and other destinations
- Caithness Chamber of Commerce is investigating a Public Service Obligation (PSO) for the reintroduction of scheduled services
- Lead – tbd
- Improving the rail freight service to/from the area
- Lead – tbd
- Improving the 4G and 5G services across the entire area
- This is a lobbying function