Traffic issues need solution

SEVERAL months ago I wrote to the Evening Telegraph highlighting the coming pointless LEZ system in Dundee and drew attention to the prohibition signs and road markings stopping only yards from a particular supermarket’s doors at the Marketgait, meaning owners of older cars would not be able to use the car park.

Is it now a coincidence that they are moving which will be a problem for the many students who live in the vicinity and use the store?

Meanwhile, in areas like Stobswell the traffic is far, far worse, especially at the rush hour, and does not come under the scheme.

I also read that work is to start on altering the Swallow roundabout by putting extra lanes on the roundabout which, in a few years’ time as traffic increases, will be a waste of time and money.

Traffic lights will also be installed causing more delays. At the very least a north/south flyover should be installed but, as I have pointed out in the past, the real solution

– a Dundee bypass – is well overdue.

Between London and Aberdeen travelling by the fastest recommended west coast trunk route the first major stop/start hold ups one comes to are all on the Kingsway, Dundee.

The LEZ system is also already causing problems in Glasgow with people driving non compliant vehicles taking other routes which is in effect moving the problem to a different area.

We already have that problem in Dundee in other areas with traffic avoiding the Claypotts junction, for example, cutting through alternative areas such as Balgillo estate, causing not only pollution but danger to pedestrians especially children coming to and from school.

This problem, of course, is caused by lack of investment and forward planning by the Scottish devolved shambolic government who have not invested properly in our transport infrastructure.

I wonder if one of our pop-up politicians would like to comment on Dundee’s traffic problems in this newspaper? However, with their track record, I won’t hold my breath.