Strathbungo is a great place to live however there is one area that lets us down. It sickens me that people think its acceptable to dump rubbish on other peoples property or anywhere for that matter. I stay in Queen Square and went out into the lane this morning to find that rubbish had been dumped outside my house. The rubbish had been ripped open and the personal details of the dumpers was visible, credit card receipts, hotel bills and even a receipt for last years ski holiday. If people don’t care about their personal and financial security then how do we convince them to respect the Strathbungo area.
Carol
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I have just been unfortunate enough to have had a fire work thrown through my window which subsequently set my bathroom on fire. After I managed to put the fire out it took 2 hours for the police to attend. I have asked them to start to patroling the lanes to try and move the youths that are hanging about on. I would urge you all to reprort any firework incidents to the police and ask for the same as the more requests for this they get them more attention they will have to give it.
Stephen
4 Marywood.
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Thursday night at 5am an unmarked white truck parked blocking Marywood square at the Pollokshaws Road end and made noisy trolley deliveries for 20 minutes further down the road, presumably to the retirement home?. The previous week the truck was parked on Pollokshaws Road and the trollies trundled even further. The noise is sufficient to wake and keep awake, annoying when you get up just after 6am anyway. Are such commercial deliveries allowed in a residential area in the middle of the night??? Is this bothering anyone else or am I just too light a sleeper???
Karen
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Hi, just a quick query - I’d heard that the SS was coordinating input regarding the location of a possible gate in the lane between the East end of Nithsdale Road and Regent Park Square, and was looking for input on this. I’d like to say that if this is the case, my preference would go for the north end of that lane rather than the south. The reason is simple - I have lived at the top of the flat that constitutes part of the gable wall on the west side of that lane for over ten years. This gable wall is the only one that sits on the border of the lane - the others (at both ends of the lane) sit back a few metres. Whenever a vehicke travels down the lane, the vibrations travel directly up the wall, causing the cupboards to shake and the glass to chink. There is also a fracture in that gable wall which is causing water ingress to the tenement block - whether or not it was caused by that lane being used as a ‘rat-run’, this usage is certainly exacerbating the problem.
Hope this is useful - and thanks for your time.
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Hi,
can anyone help? I live on Queen Square, and for some reason my Wheelie has not been emptied of rubbish on three occasions over the last 6 or 7 weeks. One week, they just didn’t collect any rubbish from the lane, and it all lay there for two weeks. This week they appear, wait for it, to have emptied some wheelies, randomly, down the lane! Why, I ask myself? I have tried phon ing the Cleansing Dept but no help there.
Anyone else finding the same problem? Any suggestions?
What can I do??? Advice most welcome.
Joan
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At the Coffee Break we were asked for tips on attic conversions in the squares. Has anyone done this and if so, are there any tips you can pass on to fellow residents?
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Just felt the need to voice my dissapointment at this year’s event. I understand the weather contributed to the low turnout but I sensed not much was organised anyway. No real sense of occasion, a lackluster countdown to ‘the bells’, barely audible music and kids pulling at the microphone with no aduly supervision. That was the only focus for the residents of Strathbungo and their guests this year in place of a fun gathering…..not good enough for a neighbourhood that prides itself on it’s unique character.Perhaps most telling that 5 days after the event, the notices asking cars to free up the parking spaces for the street party are still tied to the hedges, rain soaked, abandoned and obsolete………….just like the over-hyped ‘Bungo at the Bells’ Let’s see how long it takes the organisers to read this!
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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
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