Tonight’s meeting of the City Development
Committee agreed to establish a transport public social partnership with responsibility
for the development of a range of community based transport initiatives and services.
It will also be given responsibility for the Friendly Bus service from July
2015. The Friendly Bus is a weekly
shoppers' bus service that picks residents up from sheltered housing complexes
across the city that have difficulty using the ordinary bus service and takes them
to their nearest supermarket. It visits Brought Ferry on a Thursday and takes residents
to Sainsbury’s. It is very popular and well received by the users from Broughty
Ferry and there was great concern a couple of years back when it looked as if
the council’s administration was going to stop this service. I asked for an
assurance, which I received, that in its new guise the service wouldn’t diminish
and would remain as a city wide service. I was told that the intention was to expand
its role and make wider use of it.
The committee also approved
tenders for works to a number of schools including replacement of curtain
walling at Forthill Primary School and the renewal of windows and doors to the two
storey block at Barnhill Primary School and renewal of seven sets of internal fire
doors within the ground floor corridor. I’m particularly pleased to see the
renewal of windows and doors at Barnhill as it is something I have raised quite
a few times with the council in recent years.
