East End streets area mess

Sir, - One can but sympathise with Dundee’s West End residents as the extent of the cleansing department’s problems seem to grow worse by the day.

However, the East End of the city has not escaped either.

Our once-proud show scheme, the Aberdour Abercromby Street complex, now suffers the same problems as our fellow Lochee citizens.

Our streets and pavements have been neglected and unswept for weeks if not months, with a healthy crop of weeds flourishing by the kerbside.

Strathmore Street, one of Barnhill’s main thoroughfares, still has last autumn’s leaves nestling by weedy boundary walls.

While parking my car in Broughty Ferry last Saturday, I was astonished to see a street orderly sweeping a litterfree Amphibious Ancients pier (no doubt on overtime). Who organises this?

The cleansing department has obviously had its funds cut, the same as all other departments but the problem does not stop there.

The main reason for the state of our city is that our managers don’t seem to know how to manage.

I know from personal experience that there

were management and supervisor courses available at night school.

I don’t know if such courses are still available, but they are certainly sorely needed. James Davie. 33 Aberdour Place, Barnhill, Dundee.