Day mainly spent on day job but helpful discussion with both Planning & Transportation and with Head of Waste Management on (of all things) waste paper bins at/near bus stops. Sunstantive outcomes are waste bin I have asked for on north side of Perth Road near the two bakers at Sinderins is to be provided, the departments are working together on issue to ensure a strategy for freestanding waste bin provision at and near bus stops and shelters and I'm doing a "City Centre walkabout" with P&T staff to look at the siting of bus shelters on the 12th.Couple of other things :
Back in January, the Department for Work and Pensions decided not to extend the contract for the Post Office card account used by millions to collect benefits and pensions - beyond 2010.
The government's refusal to renew this contract, worth £1 billion in income to the Post Office, could throw the future of some of Dundee's branches into doubt. Today I signed a petition at Perth Road Post Office on this issue - see http://www.dundee.prai.co.uk/news/157.html
And just to promote a meeting on the Campaign Against Climate Change - the World Development Movement (WDM) Tayside and the local group of the Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) who are holding a meeting later this month in Dundee to discuss action on global warming.
The meeting takes place at 7.15pm on Thursday May 25th in Room T9, Tower Building, Dundee University, Perth Road, Dundee. Admission to the event is free. For more details, contact Tony Welsh (07886 530 988) or Allan Kelly (07854 808 075). Unfortunately the party national Executive is taking place in Edinburgh that night & I had already committed to attend, but have circulated the Climate Change meeting details amongst the Dundee Liberal Democrat membership.