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January
Strathbungo News Spring 2006 Take a look at the latest issue of the Strathbungo News online.
Strathbungo Society AGM Minutes June 2005
In advance of the 2006 AGM, please take time to read the minute of the last AGM.
I’d like to make some comments in response to the traffic management issues raised in the Strathbungo News. Many of the suggestions in the newsletter seem to be aimed at making life easier for car owning residents.
Rather than parking on the pavement or stealing part of people’s front gardens, how about restricting parking to one side of the street? We live in a city with fairly good public transport links. It’s perfectly possible to live without a car as I and some of my neighbours do. Moving around Strathbungo is very difficult for pedestrians and cyclists. It’s not the hedges that are the problem: it’s the cars. Children aren’t safe to play in Strathbungo: the pavements are narrow, there’s cars parked all over them and the high volume of dog shit doesn’t help either.
No mention is made of any provision to improve life for cyclists. Cycling is part of the solution to the problems of our overcrowded streets and should be encouraged. If there was only parking on one side of the narrow streets then children and adults could be permitted to cycle in either direction.
20 is plenty, but fewer cars parked and driving through the streets would be a lot better.Upgraded signs might help, but often motorists choose to ignore the rules rather than miss the signs. Painted bays won’t stop the double parking, dangerous manoeuvring and parking in front of the bike lane that happen in Nithsdale Road. Back lanes. How about blocking them off in the middle to stop through traffic? Council services could have a key to lower the bollards.
L Forde
