Top transport award for council
South Lanarkshire Council were honoured with a top honour at the 15th Annual Scottish Transport Awards in Glasgow recently.
Hosted this year by writer, presenter and actor Sanjeev Kohli, the awards recognise excellence, innovation and progress across all areas of transport in the country.
The local authority scooped the top Local Transport Authority of the Year award, taking into account an invested £5million over five years in cycle route infrastructure throughout the area; heavy investment significantly in traffic signal infrastructure (£1.1m in 2016/17) to make journeys more reliable and to improve journey times for all road users across the county among a number of other transport, roads, bridges and lighting infrastructures put in place.
Picking up the award on behalf of the council were Gordon Mackay, head of roads and transportation services, and Colin Park, engineering manager. Gordon said:“we were absolutely delighted to receive this prestigious accolade which is testament to the hard work and dedication of our entire team.
“We are very proud of our sustainable, integrated, partnership approach which ensures that our residents and businesses can access a safe and reliable transport network that meets their developing needs.
“From road maintenance to casualty reduction we are striving to continually improve our performance and these efforts are producing impressive results with substantial progress being made in providing better services, in very difficult financial times.”