Safety must improve after crash tragedy
Dear editor, The recent serious road collision on the A811 at its junction with the B8037 to Kippen which sadly claimed the life of a young mother, must surely lead to an examination of what can be done to improve road safety on this fast and busy road.
Over the course of many years, a number of collisions have occurred near the junction and the community council and others have made representations to Stirling Council to bring about road safety improvements but to no avail.
A herring-bone safety lane affording traffic coming from Buchlyvie and turning towards Kippen a degree of protection would be a start, although a roundabout like the one on the B822 into Kippen would obviously be better and reduce the speed of traffic on the A811.
Stirling Council seems to be obsessed with ineffective rumble strips.
Would the money not be better spent on measures which could have a greater impact on saving lives?
Bob MacDougall, Oxhill, Kippen (February 26) by Ruth Marr - could I ask her to please stop misleading the electorate?
There is no such thing as free prescriptions.
Let’s call it by its proper name - taxpayer funded prescriptions.
Again the SNP have tries to mislead us by calling taxpayer funded bus passes to children as free. Not so, it will cost the taxpayer £158 million.
All baby boxes, child care places, nursery places, etc will have to be paid for by us as will every penny the SNP spends.
So please no more misleading by the SNP or Ruth Marr.
Leslie Sinclair Kirkside Crescent Stirling
per cent to cover basic costs with addition of 1000 homes for solar panels.
The cost of the service shortfall was £630k and required 3.2 per cent rent increase which was proposed and agreed.
During consultation with tenants on the proposals, of those who responded, 77 per cent favoured the 3.2 per cent increase.
The council holds more than £900,000 in reserves (these are mainly used for emergency situations like flooding, inclement weather damages etc).
It is quite feasible for housing services to consider the use of such funds to offset any potential rent increases, but they won’t do that as they must keep aside reserves in case of a disaster.
Unless we are likely to experience Ice Age conditions, I cannot foresee why some of these reserves cannot be used in this way.
Tenants are now facing a double whammy with 4.84 per cent on council tax and 3.2 per cent on rent.
Scottish Government asks local authorities to take affordability into consideration (Scottish Social Housing Charter Outcome 14).
With this on the plate, perhaps we should be living in caves as we soon won’t be able to afford public services.
Rentdecisionwas disappointing
Hugh McClung MBE, Muirend Road, Braehead