This morning, I had useful site visits with roads inspection staff from the City Council looking at poor pavement condition in part of Perth Road and also the poor conditioned road surface at the busy Balgay Road/Blackness Avenue/Blackness Road junction (see right).
With regard to this roads junction, I am pleased to say that the junction will be reinstated with work starting next Monday (12th May) - weather permitting. The work will take a maximum of 2 days but might be completed in one day. As temporary traffic lights will be required during the improvements work, these will be put in place only after the rush hour on Monday morning.
Later this morning, I had a very useful meeting with our new senior police officer for the West End (and the remainder of what the police term 'Dundee South') Inspector Gary Ogilvie, at which we discussed West End policing issues.
Earlier tonight, I attended the Annual General Meeting of Community Spirit - the community group for the "north" part of West End Ward, covering Tullideph, Pentland, Ancrum and the Cleghorn area. The meeting took place in the Mitchell Street Centre.
Guest speaker was Ian Ford of the Friends of Riverside Nature Park, who gave a very interesting presentation on the development of the park. Thereafter, I had the pleasure of chairing the actual AGM part of the meeting. Sandra Myles stood down as Chair after four very successful years in the role and we all thanked Sandra for all she has done for the group and the local area - I'm pleased to say Sandra will still be attending Community Spirit's meetings.
New Chair is George Chalmers and Len Jamieson is continuing as Secretary.
One final update for today. Residents complained to me that the dog bin in Logie Avenue at Ashbank Road was "rather full" - as you can see (left) that's rather an understatement! The Environment Department has assured me this will be urgently tidied.