Weekly Road Report – West End Ward
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT
REPORT FOR WEST END WARD WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 6 MARCH 2017
Perth Road (at Arnhall Drive) – temporary traffic lights for 3 weeks for gas main renewal.
Blackness Road (at Rosefield Street) – temporary traffic lights for one week for Scottish Water mains renewal.
Nethergate (West Marketgait to South Tay Street) – closed for 2 weeks for carriageway resurfacing works.
SSE Glenagnes Cable Renewal – Lochee Road lane restrictions and closures on Blinshall Street, Fleuchar Street and Scott Street from Monday 6 March for 5 months.
Nethergate (at West Marketgait) – closed off-peak (9.30 – 3.30pm) on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 March for cycling works.
Perth Road (at Springfield) – temporary traffic lights for 2 weeks for footway works.
Temporary Traffic Order – Fleuchar Street, Blinshall Street and Scott Street
From the City Council :
Dundee City Council proposes to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 for the purpose of facilitating works for the SSE cable renewal scheme. The Order is expected to be in force for 20 weeks from 6 March 2017. Its maximum duration in terms of the Act is eighteen months.
The effect of the Order is to prohibit temporarily all vehicular traffic in (1) Fleuchar Street from Eassons Angle to Blyth Street, (2) Blinshall Street from Lochee Road to Douglas Street and (3) Scott Street from City Road to Glenagnes Road.
Pedestrian access and vehicular access to premises will be maintained where possible.
Alternative routes will be available via (1) Eassons Angle, Milnbank Road and City Road, (2) Douglas Street, Smellies Lane and Lochee Road and (3) City Road, Milnbank Road, Rosefield Street and Glenagnes Road.
Please forward any comments you may have regarding this proposal to the Network Management Team, City Development Department, Dundee House, 50 North Lindsay Street, Dundee DD1 1LS and if you have any queries please contact 433082.
Way Back When – exhibition opening
From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee :
WAY BACK WHEN – STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHS 1968-73
The opening of a new exhibition of rarely seen photographs taken by a Dundee art student in the early 1970s – “Way Back When” – opens today – Friday 3rd March – from 5pm – 6.30pm in the Tower Foyer Gallery at the University of Dundee.
The photographs were all taken by Walter Simms, who studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art from 1968-1973, specialising in Graphic Design and Photography. He went on to have a successful career in graphic design and museum exhibition design, retiring in 2012.
The exhibition has been assembled by Walter in association with one of his contemporaries, Gordon Robertson, a lecturer in Graphic Design at the college for many years.
The photographs include portraits of Walter’s fellow students at the Art College at work and at play, including at the Tav Bar and the famous Revels. They also feature fascinating glimpses into a Dundee that has changed completely – the ruined remains of the old Hawkhill; workers at the docks and at NCR. It is a time capsule of a very different Dundee.
The exhibition runs until 6th May and is open Monday to Friday (9.30am to 7pm) and Saturday (1pm to 5pm).
Admission is free but if you would like to attend the preview, it would be helpful if you could book here.
Harris Academy FPs’ Lunch
The next Harris Academy Former Pupils’ Association Lunch is on Monday 6th March at 12 noon.
It will be held in Invercarse Hotel on Perth Road and the cost per person, payable on arrival, will be £16.00.
More information is available from the FPs’ Treasurer Freida Soutar on 562788.