| MY CHILD attends Happy Days Nursery, Claverhouse Road, Dundee, a place we used to reach by driving along Fountainbleau Drive, over the Forfar Road circle and onto Claverhouse Road. Simple.
For some time now, due to the road access works for Morrisons supermarket, we have had to detour through Fintry to travel down Forfar Road and turn right into Claverhouse Road. Fair enough, a wee bit longer on the journey, but progress has to be made.
However, this week, after making the Fintry detour, I joined the long line of Forfar Road traffic to eventually find it was no longer possible to turn right into Claverhouse Road.
Instead I had to stay in the snake-line of traffic up to the Kingsway circle, go right the way round the circle and join the snake-line of traffic back down to turn left into Claverhouse Road.
What a lengthy palaver … with no prior warning it was going to happen.
The nursery tells me they’ve found out — after making their own way to the planning department — that Claverhouse Road is to close completely due to these roadworks, thus meaning anyone requiring vehicular access to Claverhouse will have to join the already busy Kingsway, travel along to Old Glamis Road and travel back on themselves to get access.
How many more delays is that going to cause?
Can the Tele find out for us when this closure is going to take place and how long it will take before things get back to normal? — Late For Work.
[A spokesman for Malcolm Construction Services said, “Unfortunately, the right turn from Forfar Road into Claverhouse is unlikely to be up and running until Christmas.
“We have a contraflow system in place just now on Forfar Road while we construct the Dundee-bound stretch of the road.
“Once completed, the contraflow will then switch while we work on the Forfar bound stretch of the road.
“Once we have constructed both carriageways it's then a case of phasing the traffic lights in — and that should take a week after both sections of the carriageway are completed.
“Once the lights are phased in you will be able to turn right into Claverhouse Road.”] |