Action is being considered by Dundee City Council in response to concerns that vehicles carrying advertisements are continually parked on the roadside, near to the junction of Dundee Road and West Queen Street.
For a number of years this prominent location has been used for mobile advertising. Cars, vans and trailers, all carrying advertisements for various services, have been left here, sometimes for weeks on end without ever being moved and most of the time there is a row of them. The result is a loss of parking spaces for residents and visitors. It also means that the area around the parked vehicles is left looking untidy because the gutter can’t be swept or sprayed with weed killer. I am regularly contacted by constituents enquiring about whether anything can be done about it.
I frequently raise the issue with the council’s transportation section and I have now been advised by the transportation manager that to control the use of this location options such as a single yellow line or limited waiting are being looked at. It will be considered as part of a periodic review of parking restrictions in the wider Broughty Ferry area to be carried out later this year.
As always I would welcome residents’ views on this matter. There are several stages to the introduction of a permanent traffic order, if that’s what is proposed, and members of the public can register their objection or support during the statutory consultation.
