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Letters - 08 October 2008
Give cemetery visitors some respect
While visiting a relative’s grave on Sunday at Birkhill Cemetery, our peace was shattered by the loud roar of a beach buggy-type vehicle travelling down the road adjacent to the cemetery.

Granted, this is expected being so close to a road. However, what I did not expect was the vehicle to turn into the cemetery and drive along the path between the graves.

All other cars were parked on the road edge.

I asked one of the riders if they could show a little respect, and was told that they were there to see a pal they had recently lost.

What did they think others were there for?

All I ask of them is to park in the car park or on the road edge and to have some respect for the peace and quiet of the cemetery and visitors. — Quietly Remembering.

System designed to delay


Who designed the road system beside the Arnold Clark garage in Dock Street, Dundee?

I am a daily user of this road and every morning and night there is a hold-up either at the junction turning right in East Whale Lane, or when I am coming home at night and someone is turning into the area just beside the Arnold Clark garage at the lights, or further on at the tyre centre. The lanes get blocked and people take silly risks turning into the left hand lane to try to avoid the wait.

Meanwhile, traffic in the right hand lane is sitting waiting for long periods, and when it does move, it is only to be faced with lights a few metres away which invariably are turning red.

Further up Dock Street — heading into East Camperdown Street — the road has been blocked to traffic turning right as it was blocking the main road.

Why isn’t the same done about these two junctions practically opposite one another? — Fed Up Driver.

Too easy on site traffic
I fully support Claire Gilroy’s stance on builders’ traffic. Whatever happened to forming “hard standing” areas on sites to accommodate traffic and operators’ cars etc?

This was standard practice on larger sites in years gone by and meant no problems with parking for nearby residents.

All roads adjacent to sites had to be kept clean and were washed down every day. Some sites made traffic clean their wheels and tyres before emerging on to public roads.

Contractors have it too easy now. I wonder if Dundee Roads and Transport Department is doing its job properly. It also raises the question: Does the council care about community safety and other issues surrounding community life?

Taxpayers should question what they are getting for their money wherever there is a building development. — Eck Settera.

Praise for police
I sympathise with the Ardler tenant who suffers from continual loud music as I’ve had the same problems on and off for the last eight miserable years.

Thankfully the situation is drawing to a close for myself.

The police do have powers to remove musical equipment, etc, if any Asbo has been broken by a sitting tenant.

One solution for the Ardler writer might be to ask the police to park their car a distance away from your house. They would hear how loud the music was.

This has happened, in my particular case, and they have stayed behind, listening at the door, after warning the tenant.

I have nothing but praise for the police, and the anti-social department, since the laws have been made stricter. — Stressed Tenant, Coldside, Dundee.

They should be ashamed
Shopping in B&Q, Kings Cross Road, Dundee, on Thursday, September 25, I reached the checkout, which was decked out with balloons.

I asked the girl what the balloons were for and she explained the store was having a coffee morning for the Macmillan nurses. The balloons were donated to decorate tables.

Just then some young adults came through the checkout and took some of the balloons and let them go in the car park.

They should be ashamed of themselves as it was for a good cause. — Sad Shopper.

Pubs closed
A number of pubs have closed in Dundee recently, and I was shocked that three of them were in the West Port area.

There may well be a number of factors why they have closed, but I suspect the smoking ban is the main reason. — Smoke And Let Smoke, Dundee.

Pressure on Jobseekers
I think it’s disgraceful the pressure those claiming Jobseekers Allowance are under. For £60 a week they are sent to various interviews here, there and everywhere. — Westender, Dundee.

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