Timelapse: A701 Moffat to West Linton (GoPro Hero3 Black Edition)
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This series of videos show my first attempts at creating a driving time lapse video using a GoPro Hero3 HD Black Edition camera.
This episode shows a journey along the A701 (signposted as a scenic route to Edinburgh), starting from the A74(M) and ending in the village of West Linton, 16 miles (26 km) South West of Edinburgh.
ROAD HISTORY:
The A701 leaves Dumfries and travels north to meet the A74(M) east of Beattock. It then passes beneath the A74(M) before continuing to the north-east towards Moffat and ultimately Edinburgh.
The road can be an alternative to the A7 or A702 routes to Edinburgh from the A74(M) and M6. It is signposted as a scenic route to Edinburgh from the motorway. The A701 is popular with motorcyclists and passes close to the edge of the Devil's Beef Tub. It runs also parallel with the former Talla Railway for several miles.
A stretch of the A701, between Penicuik and Edinburgh has a proposed bypass to run alongside it. This has been contested for many years, as the bypass will form a bottle neck back into the current road, and also will cut through an important wildlife corridor, a woodland which is a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). There has been a protest site there, campaigning to stop this development since June 2002.