| Calls for some form of pedestrian crossing at the Scott Fyffe roundabout on Kingsway East have been growing since 66-year-old Gordon Melville died after an accident involving a lorry.
Being a trunk road, the Kingsway is the responsibility of the Scottish Executive, and any improvements would need its consent — and its funding.
Craigiebank councillor John Corrigan said, “I have been in touch with a senior official today.
“He has pointed out that not a lot can be done with regard to Monday’s accident until we get accurate details of what happened.
“But what has been agreed is that he will hold a meeting with me, the police and city council transportation manager Iain Sheriff in two or three weeks to discuss this.
“He said that he already has in place an active investigation into road safety at this junction.”
Mr Corrigan said he was pleased that the meeting had been arranged, but regretted that it had come in the wake of a fatality.
“I am dismayed that a family has been devastated like this.
“It seems that we have been speaking about this junction for years. Everybody I speak to says it is a complicated problem, but we have to have this junction made safe.
“There should be designated crossings for people and there should be fences up to stop them crossing where they shouldn’t,” he said. |
