| Craigiebank ward councillor John Corrigan said the box is inside the shelter, in Craigie Drive, near Belsize Road, and bears a warning triangle with the words “danger of death” on it.
After irate representations from Mr Corrigan, the council has agreed to have the junction box moved as soon as possible.
The councillor said he’d been pressing on behalf of constituents to have the new refuge put in quickly as part of the council’s £400,000 programme to replace all 340 of Dundee’s bus shelters.
“I was pleased when I saw it had been replaced, but annoyed to find it had been built on grass with no hard-standing,” he said. “But I was utterly aghast to find inside the shelter an electrical junction box with a warning triangle that reads ‘danger of death’.
“I don’t understand how anyone could have arranged to do something so obviously ridiculous.”
Mr Corrigan said he’d been on to the planning and transportation department to insist the junction box is moved right away, adding, “I will be keeping a close eye on the situation.”While that’s his most immediate concern, he said, he was also unhappy to be told the reason the shelter had been built on grass was that money for it came from last year’s budget, while the funding for the hard-standing was in this year’s budget.
A council spokesman said the electrical box, which is there to provide cabling for electronic information systems giving details of bus times and journeys, would be moved “very soon”.
He said the shelter was originally going to be a smaller structure, which would have meant the box would have been located outside. However, a larger shelter had been built, which took in the site of the box.
Addressing the complaint about the lack of hard-standing, the spokesman said people in the area had been waiting some time for a new shelter, and it was decided to put one in as soon as possible, with the hard-standing to follow later.
Work on that was scheduled for July, but attempts are being made to have the date brought forward. |
