Kingsford issue ‘uncontrollable’

SIR, – On the morning AFC played Rangers at Pittodrie, I had some difficulty in negotiating King Street with many supporters spilling on to the road causing dangers to themselves and other road users.

This evidenced the hazards for pedestrians and others despite the best efforts of Police Scotland to provide control.

Transfer this situation to the proposed Kingsford Stadium where the King Street scenario is replaced by the A944 dual carriageway, and introduce more than 2,000 pedestrians walking along and crossing the road from designated parking areas and bus drop off points.

Clearly the supporter problems grow beyond the point of control with no evidence on how AFC has factored in the substantial cost of mitigation by the provision of an underpass or barriers on the A944.

This illustrates one of the significant uncontrollable issues with supporter access to a stadium on the Kingsford site. John Gerrie, Concraig Park,

Kingswells

“At the same time we have an elite which is incredibly rich, many hiding their wealth in tax havens.

The solution is clearly not a hard Brexit which May is suggesting, which would leave this country poorer, leading to the selling of even more of the country’s assets – and it is the poor that would pay the most.

Jonathan Russell, Springbank Place, Aberdeen magnitude that would normally require to be approved by the appropriate committee. One can only speculate why it was not.

The question that also has to be asked is, if the collapsed wall was not bounding a national cycle route but merely a footpath, would it be the council or councillor Young who would meet the relevant costs?

I confess that I am left with the thought that had the council inadvertently appropriated an area of the same land without agreement, I suspect the owner would be reaching for his lawyer. George S Morrison, Overton Circle, Dyce terms that it was not the job of the ACC to check the landowner’s title. I did so myself and was able to state with certainty that the landowner had a right of access over a tarred roadway nearby. It is therefore somewhat disingenuous for a sitting councillor to state the exact opposite, that ACC should check the title, and that he was not aware that he owned the land bordering the pathway in point. As the holder of a law degree (LLB), surely Mr Young is more switched on about conveyancing and land ownership than the average citizen. Peter A. Macari, Queens Road, Aberdeen