So, there are no other ways to take your car to Skye apart from the Bridge? I know that that isn't true.

I used to use the ferries and can well remember the queues in summer. I can also remember turning up late and missing the last boat. The bridge was a great improvement when it was built. I think you'd be hard pressed to show that the economy of Skye suffered from it.

*And, the reason that the ferry was cheap was because the rest of the UK were subsidising it. That also stopped when the bridge was built.
(silene, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 10:08, 1 reply)

Economy...
"""I think you'd be hard pressed to show that the economy of Skye suffered from it."""

Well, it's one of the reasons I no longer live on Skye, along with roughly three quarters of the people in my class at school. There were no jobs, because the bulk of Skye's income is from tourism. If there aren't enough tourists, there isn't enough money and therefore there aren't any jobs.
(gordonjcp, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 10:51, closed)

I went to Skye once
And it fecking well rained the whole time. Maybe that's why the tourists don't bother?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 18 Nov 2010, 11:00, closed)

Anecdote. Like I said, I think you'd be hard pressed to show that the economy suffered. In my experience, the cost of housing is the real reason that young locals don't stay on the Island.
(silene, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 11:00, closed)

The economy *may* have suffered
But I'd be surprised if it had fared any worse than any other area in the highlands and islands.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 18 Nov 2010, 11:12, closed)

I don't blame the bridge
The population of Skye and the other western Isles has been falling for the last couple of hundred years, hasn’t it? The young leaving to find work is hardly a new phenomenon.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 18 Nov 2010, 11:32, closed)