I live in Dalclaverhouse and use this bus every morning to go to work and get my children to school. There are approximately 20 children who attend Harris using this service in the morning.

We have been advised by Travel Dundee that there are no other connecting buses for Harris, therefore these children will have to walk for 10-15 minutes on dreary and often dark mornings to Kirkton to catch a bus into town and then another from town to school. This will double the cost of fares.

Travel Dundee has also indicated the No.36B bus service is not well used so I would like to hear their response as to why, between Kirkton and Hilltown, there is standing room only.

I feel we are being punished for not living on a council estate. — E. Melrose, Graham Court, Dundee.

So could the police state which is the proper lane to be in for turning up on to Forfar Road. — Left-Hand Lane.

[A Tayside Police spokesman said, “The traffic light system which covers the entire Claverhouse junction is a complex one and has to cope with a large number of turning manoeuvres.

This junction has been in operation for a few months and, as with any new traffic management system, information from it is being looked at to determine if any revisions are required. As such, the issue identified by your readers may be subject to changes as a result of this ongoing review process.

The system as it stands for Fintry Road/ Fontainbleau Drive is as follows.

The two lanes in Fintry Road currently are set up to allow traffic, depending on your destination, to turn right from both of them. This requires vehicles to be in the correct lane on the approach to the traffic lights and to maintain strict lane discipline during the right turn.

The destinations are clearly marked on the road surface on both of these lanes.

The nearside lane on Fintry Road should be used by vehicles wishing to carry out the following manouveres

1. Turning left on to Fountainbleau Drive.

2. Going straight ahead into Morrisons Supermarket, and

3. Turning right on to Fountainbleau Drive to then turn left on to southbound Forfar Road.

The offside lane should be used by vehicles turning right only.

On turning into Fountainbleau Drive from this lane vehicles are then in the correct position to enter the appropriate lane to either

1. Continue straight ahead into Claverhouse Road, or

2. Turn right on to the northbound Forfar Road.]

Why should a teenager who has contributed nothing to society be entitled to a house, together with social security benefits? She should be the responsibility of her family not the taxpayer.

Similarly, I don’t think junkies should be given housing, as they inevitably bring all their attendant anti-social behaviour with them, making life a misery for other tenants.

Such a policy could free up houses for decent families. — Taxed To The Hilt.

RIGHT-TO-BUY

THE HOUSING crisis in Dundee is due to the right-to-buy policy.

The parents who complain their children can’t get a council house have probably bought their own.

The loudest who complain seem to be young single mothers and large families. The people who work should be given priority.

If it wasn’t for the construction boom in Dundee we would have even more unemployment.

We have ludicrous house prices in Dundee with one bedroom flats going for £135,000 and ex-council houses in crime-ridden, drug-infested schemes going for £100,000.

In two years time, we will have swathes of new build flats lying empty because the owners can’t let them out, and we will still have a housing crisis. — Greencheese.

FAMILY VALUES

I AM glad to see someone speaking up for the working man/woman. Well-done, Steve Thomson.

It has become all too easy for pregnant teenagers to get housing. It has been this way for decades and has taught our younger generation that this is the way to move forward.

There are many hard-working single mothers. However, they are in a minority.

It’s time traditional family values were taught whereby hard-working families are rewarded not penalised. — Colin Cox, Dundee.

SPANISH SYSTEM

RE HOUSING in Dundee. I agree with Steve Thomson. If the Spanish system of making parents responsible for gymslip mums works there, it could work here. — Tax Payer.

ILLUSION OF PROGRESS

AFTER READING Dundee City Council is in the process of setting up a cross-party working group of councillors and other interested parties to look at the issue of council house lettings in Dundee, I am reminded of the following quote from Petronius 210BC.

“We worked hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.

“I was to learn in later life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency and demoralisation. — L. A.

UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

I WAS interested to read Alan Petrie is calling for Councillor George Regan to resign as Dundee housing convener.

Mr Petrie was the unsuccessful Liberal Democrat candidate who stood against Mr Regan at last year’s elections.

It is also worth remembering the Liberal Democrats are part of the administration with Labour at Dundee City Chambers. — Political Connoisseur.

BEGGARS BELIEF

FOR COUNCILLOR REGAN to deny there are people in Dundee living in slum housing beggars belief.

He should visit the tenements in Charleston, especially Buttars Road, and tell me they are fit for human habitation. — Cabbie.

I am also grateful to the two police officers, Grant and Caroline, for their invaluable assistance, care and understanding.

Many friends have phoned with concern for my husband and many visited him as well. I thank them all plus Max and Jackie the community safety wardens who visited.

Special thanks go to my cousin Carol Anne Murray and our neighbour Elizabeth Murphy for all the support at this distressing time.

Minister James Wilson also showed great kindness to us both.

My husband is recovering from his ordeal slowly. — Mrs V. Heath, Ormiston Crescent, Dundee.

(A Tayside Police spokesperson said, “Two men were subsequently arrested and charged in connection with the incident.”)

Can anyone send me a copy? I would be happy to pay. — Alan Caithness, c/o 6 Findhorn Street, Fintry, Dundee.