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Glasgow Times
6 hours ago
- General
- Glasgow Times
‘Deprived' area of Glasgow to get new stretch of road
Council planners are looking at making a left-in-left-out junction in Milton at Liddesdale Terrace and Ashgill Road to alleviate the feeling of isolation in the area. The aim is to regenerate Liddesdale Square as part of Glasgow City Council liveable neighbourhood plans. The area has been described as a 'desert' with no supermarket and secondary school. Council official Derek Dunsire said: 'There is limited public transport that comes through Milton and there is quite a disparate number of small parades of shops that really are critical for the community. ' He added: 'As part of the heart of Milton – Liddesdale Square and Terrace – there is an opportunity to unlock Milton and create a better improved sustainable transport route from the east by actually doing a very simple left in left out junction onto Ashgill Road.' READ MORE: Council rejects plans for huge 1000-home development with pub and park The group manager for liveable neighbourhoods added: 'This would help with the proposed residential developments that are looking at Liddesdale Square. 'It would help with the configuration of Liddesdale Square and potentially enhance the destination of the square itself and the local retail offering.' He said dialogue is continuing over the makeover designs. The planned scheme is one of four liveable neighbourhood projects for Lambhill to Milton, which are at a concept design stage – RIBA stage 2. The project would see improvements to Liddesdale Square, a new sponge park, parking spaces and cycle routes and could cost more than £3million. A possible site for a new supermarket has been put forward for the southern edge of Liddesdale Square. READ MORE: Major new housing development in Glasgow district put on the market Other Lambhill to Milton projects include improving routes to Miltonbank Primary School, Milton Community Nursery and St Monica's Primary School. A shopping parade at Skirsa Street is to be transformed with 'two new mixed-use blocks and the Parkhouse disused railway corridor is lined up to become a cycle and path. Projects in different parts of Glasgow, which are also at the same stage of concept design are: Ruchazie to Easterhouse, Knightswood to Anniesland and Cardonald to Mosspark. A council paper said the projects 'each have high level costings prepared with optimism bias providing a valuable overview for prioritising and securing further funding.' Councillors were presented with a report on the liveable neighbourhood projects at the environment and liveable neighbourhoods city policy committee last week. A report presented to local politicians said: 'The continued development of the liveable neighbourhood programme represents an important contribution to council priorities. This work provides a framework, which enables transport and neighbourhood interventions which prioritise connectivity, people and place; ensuring active travel and public transport become first choice for everyday journeys.' Local councillor Robert Mooney, Labour, has been calling for a supermarket in Milton describing it as 'one of the most deprived areas' of Glasgow, where children have to get two buses to high school.
Glasgow Times
8 hours ago
- Politics
- Glasgow Times
'Russian roulette': Councillor speaks on Glasgow road crossings
Councillor Robert Mooney, Labour representative, said disabled Glaswegians are treated as an 'afterthought' as many crossings don't have working rotating cones — a tactile device which lets visually impaired people know when it is safe to cross — or audible signals. He has warned that someone will be killed if action isn't taken to address the problem. The council's transport convener, Angus Millar, SNP, said the council is 'committed' to replacing or installing the cones across the city. 'That will be done on an ongoing basis as the funding is available,' he added. In late 2021, it was revealed that 403 of 890 signal-controlled junctions across the city did not have a tactile cone. By July 2022, the council said 150 did not have features like rotating cones. Councillor Mooney said crossing roads in the city is 'like playing Russian roulette' for visually impaired people. 'Russian roulette': Councillor speaks on Glasgow road crossings (Image: Newsquest) READ NEXT: I tried Glasgow's newest food and drink tour - my verdict He explained: 'I was up at Cathedral Street a few months ago, I couldn't see whether the green man was on. 'The tactile cone wasn't working. I'd waited for some amount of time, there was a bus stopped at the traffic lights. "I said to myself, 'the green man must be on', I walked out and a bus came in the next lane, stopped about an inch from me. 'If I'd walked out a bit later, I wouldn't be here today. Somebody is going to get killed if this isn't addressed.' He also said the council's accessible design forum has not met since October, but the redevelopment of the city's public realm is 'moving on at a massive pace'. Millar said the forum holds talks about 'general principles around design' and lessons are fed into the design of different projects, which are then subject to consultation. He added: 'Disabled people and others are engaged with on active travel projects. "We have, on active travel projects, a really robust process of engagement with the local community and all stakeholders, including disabled people and their representative groups.'
