We need pavement before child gets hit
tell residents that we can’t do any more to help them other than wait until the footpath gets to the top of the list.
“At a recent community council meeting I read out one parent’s description of a recent near miss she experienced.
“Her account of the daily challenge she faces taking her daughter to school was met with a palpable sense of alarm from members of the public.
“No doubt there are more incidents that we don’t hear about.
“I’m not sure what methods the council uses to assess their priorities but it’s hard to quantify the sense of danger that parents and school children face everyday.
“Muthill and Tullibardine Community Council would like to see a proactive rather than reactive response from PKC - we don’t want to have to wait until someone gets hurt for it to be deemed worthy of attention.”
David Woods, chair of Muthill and Tullibardine Community Council, said the local voluntary body will continue to hound PKC.
He said: “As far as we know it’s in the pipeline to get done subject to funding.
“Give us a time. There’s far too much money getting spent in Perth and the big towns and they are forgetting about us little people.
“Try and fix the problem before somebody gets hurt.”
PKC ward councillor Tom Gray has backed the community council and the parent council in their efforts saying: “There is a distinct need for a safety measure between the school and play park.”
The parent council has also been forced to use ‘pop up bairns’ since the start of February - bollards in the shape of children - around the school to encourage vehicles to slow down and to force more appropriate parking.
A spokesperson on behalf of PKC said: “Council officers have been in correspondence and discussion with the community council since October 2018 regarding the possibility of additional road safety measures around Muthill Primary School, and we understand the concerns the community council has.
“The council receives lots of requests for road safety measures, so to ensure that resources are appropriately focussed, the request for Muthill will be assessed against the same priority criteria as other projects.
“The community council will be updated on the outcome of this assessment.” Parents and councillors are calling on PKC to make improvements to the routes to Muthill Primary A makeshift barrierprovides a safe walkway for pupils walking to school in Muthill