Michael is pictured at the lift to the Seabraes bridge. We recently received concerns about lift breakdowns - the first such concerns in rather a long time.
We raised this with the City Council and received the following feedback from the Principal Engineer (Design & Property Services) :
"See below a response from DCC maintenance team with regards to the lift.
We have recently been made aware of a couple of breakdowns with this lift. Unfortunately, due to the lift's external and remote location it susceptible to misuse, dirt collecting in the door tracks, corrosion etc, which have been contributing factors for the majority of breakdowns over the years.
All repairs are attended to the same day they are reported to us, although again due to its location, we rely on members of the public to inform us of any breakdowns due to not having any DCC staff on site (like we do with all other lifts).
DCC carry out regular servicing of this lift including a service being carried out each month, a 6-monthly LOLER inspection and an annual LG1 inspection."
We also received complaints about the extent of vegetation to the north of the bridge and, having raised this with council environment management, received the following feedback :
"Our operatives have called into the area, north side of the bridge and carried out work to remove self-seeded Buddleia that were causing partial pedestrian obstruction. Access improvement has now been made."