AT around 3pm on Thursday, July 23, I tried to find a disabled parking space in Dundee’s Reform Street. As usual, a couple of spaces were taken by selfish drivers who don’t have a Blue Badge.
What shocked me was, after hobbling round from a space in Barrack Street, I noticed a traffic warden walking towards a BMW in a disabled bay. I thought he would move the lady on who was sitting in the car but the warden walked past the car although it was clear no Blue Badge was displayed.
Why didn’t this warden take action? Why do we pay these wardens if they are not going to enforce the traffic code on disabled bays? — Disgusted And Disabled.
Long trek
WALKING down the stairs of the Forfar Road underpass at Morrisons, I found it flooded. I wasn’t alone, as two couples were also prevented using it.
There is no sign to say the underpass was out of use.
However, trying to cross the road was also difficult as the pavement on the Forfar Road has been fenced off.
The only crossing is at the lights some distance away.
We had to go walk back into Caird Park where the pavement continues, making quite a detour.
Without the underpass in operation, this is a long shopping trek for the elderly and disabled.
Also, who made the decision to put a fence over the pavement on the Forfar Road? It made me think of the Monty Python comedy show and film.
On entering Morrisons, a member of staff said Dundee City Council has been informed and they are waiting on them to act. — David Birse, Fintry Road, Dundee.
Two minutes out
LIVING in Broughty Ferry and working in Ninewells Hospital, I read with interest that a new, faster bus service, the 8X, was to be introduced by Travel Dundee from next month.
Because of the cutbacks in the frequency of the 9X service, which I use at the moment, I naturally assumed the new service would benefit me and colleagues who also travel from Barnhill and the Ferry.
I downloaded the new timetable from the website, and discovered Travel Dundee has managed to schedule the buses to leave Ninewells at two minutes before the hour, thus depriving everyone who finishes work on the hour a chance to use the service.
Most workers who finish at 5pm will not wait until the next scheduled Travel Dundee bus at 5.28, and will use an alternative Broughty Ferry service, probably the Strathtay bus, which runs every 15 minutes. — Disgruntled.
Security review
I AM disgusted by the lowlife who came into our club in Downfield Primary, Dundee, while the children were at a trampolining session and stole two Nintendo DS.
I am told this person was attending an event in the family support centre. I am concerned he, or she, had access to our club, which is accessed normally only by a secure door.
In some respects it has allowed us to look at our security and raises questions over other events in the school. — Disgusted Parent.
Dundee should be proud
AS a member of the previous Dundee City Council administration, I can say it has always been the intention to return to Albert Square the plaque honouring the brave men from Dundee who gave their lives of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.
In October 2008, I was delighted and honoured to meet some of the surviving British members of the Brigade when their Memorial Trust held its AGM in the city.
Dundee should be proud of those Dundonians who went to fight fascism in Spain. I am sure the new administration will continue the previous policy and have the plaque returned to a prominent position in the square.
The plaque currently has a temporary home in the Howff. — Cllr Richard McCready, Dundee City Council.
Plaque location
THE plaque commemorating the Dundee men who died in the Spanish Civil War is now in the Howff. To see it enter by the gate in Ward Road, and it is to the right. — E. K.
Never forget
ON behalf of all of our family, I thank all of the nursing staff at Ward 3, Ninewells Hospital, after my gran Mrs Lena Knox passed away on July 21.
The staff in this ward, doctors and nurses could not have helped us enough in the days we sat there.
So often there are bad feelings from people towards the staff at Ninewells, but I just cannot express enough how much they made my gran’s last few days as easy as possible, for her and ourselves, and we shall never forget them for this. — Tracy Dow.
Walter’s cameo in film
THE Wicker Man, the 1973 film starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee, was shown on STV recently, but did anyone notice the cameo appearance by Walter Carr?
Walter, I recollect, as one of the regulars of Dundee’s one-time Palace Theatre (off Nethergate). He was Lex McClean’s sidekick in his stage comedy routines.
Dundee lost a rare commodity when The Palace vanished.
Other unmissable Scots performers who paraded on the stage were comics, Johnny Victoria and Jack Milroy and singer Dennis Clancy. — J. I. Matthews.
Lost touch
I LIVE in the US, but stayed in Dundee 30 years ago. I am attempting to locate Hillary McKay who lived with her parents on Forfar Road. She worked at NCR. I’d be grateful if anyone can help me. — Ted Boiman, boited@yahoo.com.
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